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Complete Kinescope of Game 7 of 1960 World Series found!

As for commercials for the 1960 telecast, you might be disappointed. I am almost ttotally certain that there was only one sponsor for the full 7 games, the Gillette Safety Razor Company.

In fact, if I'm not mistaken, Gillette actually owned the TV and radio rights to the Series. They then sold off the rights to NBC for TV and Mutual for radio, though it could have NBC instead by 1960.

There were actually two non-NBC channels that televised the WS (both picking up the NBC feed), which would have been WPIX in New York and KDKA in Pittsburgh.
 
timmyb said:
As for commercials for the 1960 telecast, you might be disappointed. I am almost ttotally certain that there was only one sponsor for the full 7 games, the Gillette Safety Razor Company.

In fact, if I'm not mistaken, Gillette actually owned the TV and radio rights to the Series. They then sold off the rights to NBC for TV and Mutual for radio, though it could have NBC instead by 1960.

There were actually two non-NBC channels that televised the WS (both picking up the NBC feed), which would have been WPIX in New York and KDKA in Pittsburgh.
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As long as none of them involve couples sitting in bathtubs, I'll be happy! ;D
 
After watching the kinescope of Game 7 last night on MLB Network, I was very surprised when I saw that NBC had actually utilized a center field camera for that game. They didn't use it when runners were on base, except on a few occasions. Good thing NBC had the center field camera too, as when Mazeroski hit the game winner, that camera showed what kind of pitch it was (right at the belt).
 
That was a fine, no-nonsense broadcast. I could only watch the first couple of innings (until our kitten managed to knock over our Christmas tree) but as a broadcasting fan I felt the play-by-play was very much just-the-facts, and kind of refreshing. Not that the folks doing the call were lightweights by any means...
 
hubcity said:
That was a fine, no-nonsense broadcast. I could only watch the first couple of innings (until our kitten managed to knock over our Christmas tree) but as a broadcasting fan I felt the play-by-play was very much just-the-facts, and kind of refreshing. Not that the folks doing the call were lightweights by any means...
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Mel Allen was a pro at this. This was at least his fifth WS telecast. He also was the prime play by play man for the Rose Bowl at this time. He knew what he was doing (though he kinda blew the Berra homer). His home run call on Mazeroski's shot was rather unremarkable. On the other hand, Bob Prince was on his first WS telecast. Already by this series, he was known as a homer for his Buccos. He wore loud and ugly sportcoats and was prone to wild and crazy antics (his "green weenie" hex was yet to come). However, Prince possessed a golden throat and that voice probably saved him to get the OK from Commissioner Ford Frick to work the Series.

In the four and half innings he worked on Game 7, Prince definitely called it straight. He did do his trademark "You can kiss it goodbye!" home run call for Pirate Rocky Nelson, but he also did the same for Yankee Johnny Blanchard's shot as well. But when Prince conducted the post-game celebration in the winning Pirate clubhouse, it was a frantic scene. The Gunner interviewed what seemed like two dozen people inside of five minutes; often two at a time. And the glee Prince showed when he talked to Groat, Maz, Friend, Skinner, etc. left no doubt who he wanted to win the Series.
 
Prince was really a pro at the locker room interview. I recall one he did on the radio
that was very moving. It was with a young Steve Blass, after his failed comeback season,
when he had pretty much just concluded that his career was over. Prince handled the
emotion of that with great class and dignity.
 
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