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[piano plays Take Me Out to the Ball Game]

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Let\'s go.

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Come on.

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[?] Let\'s go, boys.

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Come on.

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Get in the dirt.

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Let\'s go.

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We have a [?] today.

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The Chicago Cubs of the National League

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at Spring Training
for the 98th consecutive year.

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They won the pennant that first year, 1876,

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and went on to win 15 more championships,

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but the last one was in 1945.

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For 20 consecutive years thereafter,

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the once proud Cubs poked around miserably
near the bottom of the league.

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The owner, Mr. PK Wrigley,
the chewing gum king,

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tried almost everything,

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including a disastrous experiment
with four rotating managers.

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Things were so bad that an aging sportswriter
once refused to cover Spring Training,

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for fear he might be called upon to play.

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Can I get that low pitch, Ferg?

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I\'m not that quick this early in the morning.

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In the early \'70s,
the Cubs were once again a powerhouse.

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The starting nine players were being paid
about half a million dollars.

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The king of the hill was Ferguson Jenkins
from Chatham, Ontario.

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They wanted him to pitch 40 games

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and they would pay him $3,000 apiece.

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This fella\'s name is Cliff Raven.

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He does tattoos in Chicago.

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I went down and I talked to him
about getting a tattoo on my arm.

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He said
did I want anything large or picturesque

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or would I like a girl or a panther or a knife
and I thought maybe a cross with a flower.

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I thought something biblical
would go very nice with it,

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so I put \"Trust in God\" on it.

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Get a shot of this.

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Holding my hand.

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Jewish kid and a colored kid.

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Yes, yes.

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Bart, let go of my hand, Bart.

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I want to hold gold.

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This is it. You\'ve got it right here.

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That\'s where all the money comes from.

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This makes all the money, Bart, right there.

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I\'m going to have it laminated when I die.

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Move it.

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The man who brought the Cubs back to glory

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was the legendary manager
Leo the Lip Durocher,

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now almost 70 years of age.

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As a player, he used to sharpen his spikes
with a file to terrorize the base runners.

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As a manager,
he was suspended for the 1947 season

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for conduct detrimental to baseball.

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He hung out with people like George Raft

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and married movie stars
and gambled and drank with Frank Sinatra.

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By all accounts, he was as tough as a rat.

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He\'d been out of baseball for 11 years

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when Mr. Wrigley brought him back
to save the Cubs.

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38 and not even breathing,

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39,

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40, only got a hundred more to go.

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In 1966, the same year Durocher arrived,

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the big kid Jenkins came to the Cubs.

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Only 117 of the 10,000 Major League
ballplayers in the history of the game

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had come from Canada,

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and none of them had ever made it
as big as Fergie Jenkins.

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That is enough, big fella.

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Okay.

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Nice going.

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Thank you.

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You\'ve got a lot of break on it.

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Throw it right at here.

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Slider.

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Go to work, Ferg.

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Come on now, baby.
You\'re better than he are. Come on.

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All right.

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I like it.

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All right, two and two on him now,
come on, right here.

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Oh, me.

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Another boy who came in 1966
to catch the mighty Jenkins

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was Randolph Randy Hundley.

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They called him Red,

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and he knew every idiosyncrasy
of every one of the 275 enemy batters

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they would face during the season.

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He led the team\'s prayer meetings
on Sunday mornings

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and never used a four-letter word.

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At third base was the great Ron Santo,

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who had 2,000 big league hits
and held 11 all-time fielding records.

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Ron, what are you doing here?

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Coaching at third was Pistol Pete Reiser,

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who Durocher had rescued
from obscure coaching jobs

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in places like Kokomo, Michigan.

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Reiser had played
for Durocher\'s Brooklyn Dodgers

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and some said he would have been
the greatest player of them all

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if he hadn\'t been destroyed by injuries.

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The first base coach was Ernie Banks.

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He\'d played for 19 seasons

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and was considered the greatest
to ever wear the Cub uniform.

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Despite the fact that
he\'d never played on a championship team,

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baseball, to Ernie Banks,
was still an act of love.

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You in a heap of trouble, boy.

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Ernie, another one.

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Come on, Ernie, shit.

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Hey, Red, get in the outfield.

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He can\'t be helped, he\'s too far gone.

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Try it again, Red. Here you are.

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That\'s a base hit.

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[LAUGHS]

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Forty, fifty years ago, the Cubs,
for some obscure reason,

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trained on a Pacific island
which consisted of nothing but mountains.

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They used to say the Cubs could beat
any team alive playing on the side of a hill.

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Now, they took Spring Training
on a nice flat patch of Scottsdale, Arizona.

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I really need this.

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I lose about six pounds in here

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and I have to eat like a son of a gun
to put the weight back on.

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[PIANO PLAYS]

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It is a time of hope and innocence.

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Most of the onlookers are very old Americans
who have retired to the sun.

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Sociologists have concluded
that only the ancient have the innocence

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to still believe
that all bats are filled with dynamite

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and all arms are made of gold,

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and that\'s what you have to believe
in the spring.

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Spring Training.

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It all began in 1886 when manager Cap Anson
took his team to Hot Springs, Arkansas,

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to sober them up.

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Chewing tobacco
is part of the baseball ritual.

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In the old days, everybody did it,
whether they liked it or not.

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Today, there are only 86 Major League
managers, players, and umpires

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who chew tobacco,

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and most of them mix it with bubble gum
to kill the taste.

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It\'s a good thing I\'m not coughing today.

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Anybody ever tell you you\'re ugly?

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Anybody ever tell you that you are too?

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You\'re such a sissy fag umpire.

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First base is baseball\'s
most sociable position.

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Atta boy, name-dropper.

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There are baserunners,
coaches, and umpires to talk to,

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and wild Joe Pepitone loved to talk.

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Joe gave you the right number, Jesus.

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14 on your scorecard, 14 in your heart.

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[Greek language]

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You\'re really a pain in the ass.

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That makes two of us, Joe.

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You know if you guys
would stop talking, you umpires,

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and concentrate on the game a little bit more,
it\'d be a different story, man.

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I don\'t want to hear it.

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What was the sign we had
for if we thought he was bunting?

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Oh, across my letters.

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You mean, you\'re talking about a man
on first and second?

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No, that the pitcher\'s had if--

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It is often assumed
that discussions on the mound

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deal with such rarified baseball strategy
as to boggle the mind of the average fan.

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Oh, no,
I don\'t know what you\'re talking about.

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Maybe you weren\'t there.

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[piano plays The Entertainer]

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Cynics have wondered
why it takes a group of athletes six weeks

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to prepare their bodies for a game

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that children can swing into comfortably
in a couple of days.

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The length of spring training,
as with most things in baseball,

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is as inviolate
as the human gestation period.

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It is generally agreed by baseball purists

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that there are some things
that only God should monkey with.

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[PIANO PLAYS]

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The manager makes his last cuts,

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dispatching the veterans
who no longer have it,

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the kids who aren\'t yet ready

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to ride the buses
through the bush leagues of America.

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The big guns have rounded into shape.

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and Ferguson Jenkins hopes
there is still gold in his long right arm.

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Help, I\'m sinking.

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Help, help.

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The older people, they need this cord.

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For us young strong athletes,
we can hold onto the pipe.

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This is the WGN Chicago Cubs
Baseball Network.

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Well, it\'s opening day at Wrigley Field,
a beautiful sunshiney day.

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This is that moment
we\'ve been dreaming about all winter,

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especially when that snow
was flying in January around here.

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Looks like we\'re going to have
a full house this afternoon.

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I\'m Jack Brickhouse. Stay with us.
It\'s going to be a great day in Chicago.

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The voice of Jack Brickhouse,
as it has for 25 years,

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is heard across Illinois.

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Wrigley Field where Mr. Wrigley will permit
no billboard, no astroturf,

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and not even any lights.

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He believes that baseball was meant
to be played during the daylight hours

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in pleasant surroundings.

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The ivy-covered walls
have presented problems.

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When Lou Novikoff, the mad Russian,
played centerfield,

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he refused to go near the wall
for fear he might be allergic to the vine.

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As this limited
his effectiveness as an outfielder,

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the manager tried
to alleviate Novikoff\'s fears

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by tearing down a portion of the vine
and eating it.

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Novikoff was unconvinced
and continued to ignore long fly balls.

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Well, I can\'t remember
the last time we saw anything like this,

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Carmen Fanzone,
the Cub utility infielder and pinch hitter,

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is going to play
the national anthem on his trumpet.

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[Star-Spangled Banner playing]

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The corner of Clark and Addison
on Chicago\'s north side

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where the Cubs have been playing ball
since 1916.

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Come on. Be aggressive.

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Right in the middle.
Strike three, he got him.

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At the end, the inning ends on a strikeout.

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Strike three.
Boy, is that fast slider working today.

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[MUSIC]

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All right,
let\'s see if Fergie can bun them across.

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Runs a little sharply.
The play will be at second.

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It\'s a force,

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and Fergie is a little unhappy
with himself on that one.

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Is he out?

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Goddamn.

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The final pitch.

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No.

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You all right?

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Damn it.

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Did he catch it?

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Yes.

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Yes, he caught him, son.
The ball went right into his glove.

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Who?

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Just about everything in baseball
has happened before.

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It\'s all recorded
in great volumes of statistics

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and in the encyclopedic memories
of coaches and managers.

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All right, player.

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Okay.

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They owe us a double play now.
Let\'s go. Come on.

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Make them hit that ball on the ground.

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Okay.

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All right. Come on now.

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-Let\'s make sure on one.
-Me and you, right?

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-Hey.
-No, let\'s go you and Papo.

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-Okay, no problem.
-At three. Doesn\'t he pull the ball?

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Yes, okay.

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Hey, let\'s make sure on one.

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Okay.

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Going two.

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Ground ball.

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Kessinger in.

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Makes the play.

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Nice play, Donny.

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Should have backed up on the ball
a little more.

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I\'m going to stand here just a minute.
I pulled that muscle.

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It\'s all right.

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No, every time I make a play
I get distracted by it. It\'s all right.

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Just takes a second, okay?

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Okay.

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-Go hard and get this guy.
-Nice play. Come on.

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Two and two to Rosinski.

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Down ball. Hickman takes it.
Fergie over to cover.

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It\'s an out and the ball game is over.
The Cubs win at two to one.

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A beautiful opening day win
for the Cubs and Ferguson Jenkins,

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and jokes all the way around now.

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What\'s the magic number?

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Only 161 to go.

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The Cubs have won
a brilliant opening day victory.

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St. Christopher\'s watching me.

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He watches all, sees all, knows all

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because he\'s on there all the time.

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He could write a big book.

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Do you want to smile, Dolores?

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What\'s the matter, Didi?

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Look at Dolores.

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She\'s hiding.

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Dolores.

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Dolores.

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Didi.

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Dolores.

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Get her attention, babe.

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-Dolores.
-Didi.

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Didi.

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What\'s on your fingers?

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Jenkins still lived in Chatham, Ontario,

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but during the season,
kept an apartment for his family in Chicago.

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As a woman, does the idolation
that other females throw upon your husband,

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does this bother you?

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It did, but it doesn\'t anymore. It doesn\'t.

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When you go to the park, you see girls there,

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but you can\'t afford to let it bother you
because if you did,

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you would go crazy within the first year.

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You\'d lose your mind.

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That\'s it. Look this way.

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Look this way to daddy.

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Look this way.

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Didi.

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Didi, Dolores, look.

00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:54.020
Didi.

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Got you anyhow.

00:16:56.820 --> 00:16:58.320
Are you a baseball fan?

00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:00.520
I wasn\'t before I got married.

00:17:00.520 --> 00:17:06.010
I was not really strong at it,
but after I started going with Ferguson,

00:17:06.010 --> 00:17:12.080
then I got to be indoctrinated because
his family was a real athlete family.

00:17:12.080 --> 00:17:14.900
His mother loved baseball.
His dad was crazy about it.

00:17:14.900 --> 00:17:16.500
How about you, Fergie?

00:17:16.500 --> 00:17:17.370
Did you play baseball?

00:17:17.370 --> 00:17:19.210
His father, Fergie Sr.

00:17:19.210 --> 00:17:21.060
was a good semi-pro player.

00:17:21.060 --> 00:17:23.050
That\'s why I came to Chatham.

00:17:23.050 --> 00:17:26.850
They brought me from Windsor here
and started here.

00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:29.440
Year after I was here I got married.

00:17:29.600 --> 00:17:31.140
Won the championship that year too,
didn\'t we?

00:17:31.140 --> 00:17:31.780
Yes.

00:17:31.780 --> 00:17:34.820
You\'re the one
that turned your son to baseball?

00:17:34.820 --> 00:17:36.900
Yes, and these two gentlemen here.

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This present mayor, he used to come
and get Fergie seven o\'clock in the morning,

00:17:40.890 --> 00:17:42.880
haul his tail out to the ballpark.

00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:46.490
Fergie would be running out
with toast in his mouth chewing it.

00:17:46.490 --> 00:17:49.900
His mother wouldn\'t allow him to even get out
of the car unless his spikes were shiny.

00:17:49.900 --> 00:17:51.420
That\'s the type of person she was.

00:17:51.420 --> 00:17:53.330
He did that, he wanted to be dirty.

00:17:53.330 --> 00:17:54.820
He wanted his suit dirty.

00:17:54.820 --> 00:17:56.380
She\'d have it washed

00:17:56.980 --> 00:17:59.000
and he didn\'t think much of that.

00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:03.140
Fergie\'s mother, who stood six foot one,
was a powerful force in his life.

00:18:03.140 --> 00:18:08.260
She went blind while he was growing up
and never saw her son play major league ball.

00:18:08.930 --> 00:18:13.000
Fergie grew to six foot five inches
and was a natural athlete.

00:18:13.460 --> 00:18:16.780
He could play any sport
better than any kid in Chatham.

00:18:16.780 --> 00:18:19.440
He was a better hockey player
than he was a ballplayer.

00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:22.120
He still sneaks out and plays hockey
[LAUGHS]

00:18:22.120 --> 00:18:25.650
and he got into trouble over that last year.

00:18:25.650 --> 00:18:29.160
They found out he was up in London
playing with this bunch of guys

00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:31.420
and out in Blenheim playing hockey
and all that mess.

00:18:31.420 --> 00:18:32.580
The Cubs don\'t like it?

00:18:32.580 --> 00:18:33.450
No, no.

00:18:33.820 --> 00:18:34.560
They stopped him.

00:18:34.560 --> 00:18:37.120
He got his teeth knocked out
a couple of years ago.

00:18:37.120 --> 00:18:39.520
Two front teeth busted right out.

00:18:39.690 --> 00:18:41.330
[LAUGHTER]

00:18:41.330 --> 00:18:43.300
He don\'t mess with hockey no more.

00:18:44.300 --> 00:18:46.360
What\'s that, Daddy?

00:18:46.360 --> 00:18:47.100
What\'s that?

00:18:47.100 --> 00:18:48.140
That\'s your dad.

00:18:48.140 --> 00:18:49.170
That\'s dad.

00:18:50.050 --> 00:18:51.600
He played ball.

00:18:51.600 --> 00:18:53.210
That\'s Ferguson G.

00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:55.700
That\'s Bob Gibson.

00:18:55.700 --> 00:18:57.530
He\'ll tell you a fast ball\'s coming.

00:18:57.530 --> 00:18:59.920
He\'s going fast and threw it by you

00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:03.570
because he\'s a competitor.

00:19:07.290 --> 00:19:09.890
Jenkins was a great control pitcher.

00:19:10.380 --> 00:19:15.160
He had the full arsenal of pitches,
the fastball, the changeup, the slider,

00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:17.020
and the big league curve,

00:19:17.860 --> 00:19:23.200
and he could put each of them into whatever
area of the strike zone suited his purpose.

00:19:24.380 --> 00:19:28.730
By doing just this, he had become
the first Chicago Cub pitcher in history

00:19:28.730 --> 00:19:33.440
to win the Cy Young Award as the best pitcher
in all of the national league.

00:19:42.840 --> 00:19:45.000
There\'s a lot of science to baseball.

00:19:45.300 --> 00:19:48.840
It\'s actually a game designed for geniuses.
You know that?

00:19:50.520 --> 00:19:53.860
But if you\'re an ordinary type fella,
you don\'t understand anything.

00:19:54.490 --> 00:19:57.770
Six to three, and five to seven,
and five to eight.

00:19:57.770 --> 00:19:59.930
It\'s a scientific game.

00:20:00.060 --> 00:20:03.040
The intellects love to watch baseball.

00:20:03.330 --> 00:20:06.400
There\'s so much inner thinking
that goes inside of it.

00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:07.460
You mean what is going to happen?

00:20:07.460 --> 00:20:08.400
Yes.

00:20:09.420 --> 00:20:10.930
Oh, come on.

00:20:10.930 --> 00:20:15.650
Fergie Jenkins,
the count is three and two on [?] Lee.

00:20:15.650 --> 00:20:16.860
What is he thinking about now?

00:20:16.860 --> 00:20:19.100
The thoughts, it\'s a thought-type game

00:20:19.100 --> 00:20:21.960
if you really put your mind to it
and make it work.

00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:23.300
It\'s all thought.

00:20:24.060 --> 00:20:26.760
It\'s decision-making;
when to swing, when not to swing;

00:20:26.760 --> 00:20:29.860
when to throw, when not to throw;
when to run, when not to run.

00:20:29.860 --> 00:20:33.180
It\'s all quick decisions, where geniuses,

00:20:34.520 --> 00:20:37.570
that\'s their whole life is thinking.

00:20:37.570 --> 00:20:38.890
You threw two curves in.

00:20:38.890 --> 00:20:41.010
The first one looked like it got down on him.

00:20:41.010 --> 00:20:42.770
It was low, you know, low in the dirt?

00:20:42.770 --> 00:20:43.060
Yes.

00:20:43.810 --> 00:20:45.650
The second one, was that a change-up?

00:20:45.650 --> 00:20:47.040
-Curve to foul?
-No. No, no.

00:20:47.040 --> 00:20:49.290
The one inside?
That was just a regular curve.

00:20:49.290 --> 00:20:50.300
Well, you put on it.

00:20:50.300 --> 00:20:52.520
-Is that right?
-Yes, you didn\'t try and throw the ball off.

00:20:52.520 --> 00:20:54.440
I thought you took a lot off from us,-

00:20:54.440 --> 00:20:54.890
Yes.

00:20:54.890 --> 00:20:55.540
-but you didn\'t then?

00:20:55.540 --> 00:20:56.050
No.

00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:57.410
Just come out of my hand.

00:20:57.410 --> 00:20:58.650
Well, you just didn\'t throw it hard.

00:20:58.650 --> 00:20:59.280
Okay.

00:20:59.280 --> 00:21:00.660
You were just satisfied just

00:21:00.660 --> 00:21:02.140
-flop it in without throwing it.
-Flop it, yes.

00:21:02.140 --> 00:21:02.940
Okay.

00:21:02.940 --> 00:21:06.010
The batter, Billy Williams.

00:21:06.010 --> 00:21:07.420
Billy Williams up now,

00:21:07.420 --> 00:21:10.400
already established
as one of the all-time Cub greats,

00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:13.170
and, gee,
what a year he\'s having here in June.

00:21:13.170 --> 00:21:16.920
Batting average coming into the ball game
.343 at the moment.

00:21:18.280 --> 00:21:20.650
Hit one up on that Buick sign out there.

00:21:20.650 --> 00:21:22.320
Got the wind behind you.

00:21:27.320 --> 00:21:28.940
There\'s the swing, that\'s it.

00:21:28.940 --> 00:21:33.330
[CROWD CHEERS]
Back, back, back-- Home run.

00:21:33.330 --> 00:21:35.720
It\'s gone. Woo.

00:21:37.800 --> 00:21:40.200
These swings are [?].

00:21:41.610 --> 00:21:47.120
Billy Williams having a great year,
and just made it even greater.

00:21:51.820 --> 00:21:53.400
Doing what comes naturally.

00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:57.120
A clear, sunny day [?] Brooklyn Festival.

00:21:57.120 --> 00:21:59.170
Billy Williams of Alabama.

00:21:59.170 --> 00:22:01.020
The Iron Man of baseball,

00:22:01.130 --> 00:22:05.490
who once played 1127 games
before taking a day off.

00:22:05.860 --> 00:22:09.120
He was Fergie Jenkins\'
closest friend on the club.

00:22:09.580 --> 00:22:11.480
They each liked hunting and fishing,

00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:14.600
and they each made
over a hundred thousand dollars a year.

00:22:15.420 --> 00:22:18.660
Except for the fact that they get
fewer endorsements and commercials

00:22:18.660 --> 00:22:20.480
than the White ballplayers,

00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:23.480
the Blacks in baseball are pretty well equal.

00:22:24.220 --> 00:22:27.040
When Jenkins broke in in the early \'60s,

00:22:27.260 --> 00:22:31.050
there were still some restaurants and hotels
that would not take them.

00:22:31.400 --> 00:22:35.560
The Blacks tried to break into
organized baseball back in the 1880s.

00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:39.210
It was the Chicago Cubs\'
great playing manager, Cap Anson,

00:22:39.210 --> 00:22:40.530
who stopped them.

00:22:40.760 --> 00:22:44.690
When he refused to send his team out to play,
unless, as he said,

00:22:44.690 --> 00:22:47.120
\"They got those niggers off the field,\"

00:22:47.460 --> 00:22:49.410
and so, for some 80 years,

00:22:49.410 --> 00:22:52.410
the Blacks were segregated
in the negro leagues.

00:22:52.690 --> 00:22:54.770
Living in fleabag hotels

00:22:54.770 --> 00:22:58.480
when they weren\'t sleeping in
the dressing rooms of decrepit ballparks.

00:22:58.850 --> 00:23:02.930
Great players they were, too,
like pitcher Satchel Page,

00:23:02.930 --> 00:23:06.450
whose entire outfield
was late for a game in Canada,

00:23:06.570 --> 00:23:10.220
so he just kept striking out the side
until they showed up.

00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:15.380
The phenomenal records of these
great players were never kept until 1947

00:23:15.560 --> 00:23:20.160
when they were finally admitted
to the great White ballparks of America.

00:23:20.160 --> 00:23:30.400
[MUSIC]

00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:33.480
The Astrodome in Houston, Texas.

00:23:33.800 --> 00:23:37.340
About as far away
from old Wrigley Field as you can get.

00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:40.260
Here, they don\'t even play outdoors.

00:23:40.260 --> 00:23:55.180
[MUSIC]

00:23:55.180 --> 00:23:57.020
You got Rick in right field again?

00:23:57.360 --> 00:23:57.890
What?

00:23:57.890 --> 00:23:59.530
Rick in right field again?

00:24:04.540 --> 00:24:06.440
I don\'t know
if he knows how to play right field.

00:24:06.700 --> 00:24:07.900
Sliders all day long.

00:24:07.900 --> 00:24:08.810
[?]

00:24:08.810 --> 00:24:10.440
Same as Cedeno, yes.

00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:13.820
Cedeno, a lot of off-speed stuff.

00:24:13.820 --> 00:24:14.410
Right.

00:24:15.210 --> 00:24:18.680
Ballplayers hear the national anthem
160 times a year,

00:24:18.680 --> 00:24:20.850
and their minds sometimes wander.

00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:25.080
Every one of these right-hand hitters
on this ball club, except Lee May.

00:24:25.080 --> 00:24:26.250
You can pitch in.

00:24:26.370 --> 00:24:28.370
Yes, okay.

00:24:28.370 --> 00:24:32.280
I\'m talking about four to six inches in
off the plate and he\'ll swing at it.

00:24:34.260 --> 00:24:35.760
Challenging them, you know?

00:24:36.020 --> 00:24:37.460
Lee May, no.

00:24:37.460 --> 00:24:38.960
Fuck him, I wouldn\'t.

00:24:40.410 --> 00:24:43.250
If I\'m going to come in,
I want to come so far that he can\'t.

00:24:48.130 --> 00:24:50.800
Mater, Watson, Cedeño,

00:24:52.500 --> 00:24:53.780
Wynn,

00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:57.660
you\'ve got to be in there real good on him too
or he can hurt you a little.

00:24:57.660 --> 00:24:58.450
Okay.

00:24:58.450 --> 00:25:01.320
Lee May, the batter, and, boy, he\'s rough.

00:25:01.320 --> 00:25:03.600
Fergie sets the swing.

00:25:03.600 --> 00:25:04.500
That\'s it.

00:25:04.500 --> 00:25:07.970
Back she goes, way back,
say goodbye, it\'s a goner.

00:25:07.970 --> 00:25:11.970
This will touch off the $2 million scoreboard
here at the Astrodome,

00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:15.340
and Fergie is really burned up on himself.

00:25:15.340 --> 00:25:26.400
[CROWD CHEERS]

00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:27.690
Oh, me.

00:25:30.770 --> 00:25:31.610
Huh?

00:25:32.620 --> 00:25:33.940
Yes, that was a bad one.

00:25:33.940 --> 00:25:35.210
Yes, first base home.

00:25:35.210 --> 00:25:37.170
Yes, I know. It\'s a bad slider.

00:25:37.170 --> 00:25:38.320
Push it really.

00:25:38.320 --> 00:25:39.570
He lets you know right away.

00:25:39.570 --> 00:25:41.640
The first two innings, he\'s either going to--

00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:44.560
If he can get past the first two winnings,
he\'s going to make it.

00:25:44.860 --> 00:25:48.010
If he can\'t, then you know
it\'s going to be a tough ball game because

00:25:48.010 --> 00:25:49.740
if they\'re hitting hard in the first two,

00:25:51.850 --> 00:25:55.260
you\'re going to pull your hair
and get a headache right away,

00:25:56.060 --> 00:25:58.340
hoping that things
will turn out better for him.

00:25:58.340 --> 00:26:02.020
Last four two-strike pitches,
I\'ve been throwing nothing on them at all.

00:26:02.020 --> 00:26:03.020
Jesus.

00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:05.560
Hit the ball too tightly, choking them.

00:26:17.140 --> 00:26:21.530
Jenkins has faced each veteran batter
maybe a hundred times over the years.

00:26:21.850 --> 00:26:24.900
Every pitch he\'s thrown at them
has been recorded.

00:26:25.340 --> 00:26:29.380
He must decide now which pitch
in his arsenal is the most effective

00:26:29.380 --> 00:26:33.100
against this particular man
in this particular situation.

00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:36.320
Oh, God damn.

00:26:38.020 --> 00:26:41.130
-His slider is way outside or did he just miss?
-No, that one just missed.

00:26:41.130 --> 00:26:42.090
-You mean the first one?
-Yes, first one.

00:26:42.090 --> 00:26:43.050
He just missed.

00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:51.330
The slider, you\'re opening up
a little bit too quickly on your slider.

00:26:51.330 --> 00:26:54.090
You\'re coming like this
and your arm is still back here.

00:26:56.930 --> 00:26:58.200
He swings.

00:26:58.700 --> 00:26:59.890
Base hit.

00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:13.180
Look out now,
these guys may be on their way.

00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:17.760
All right, listen.

00:27:18.300 --> 00:27:19.490
We\'re having a tough time.

00:27:19.490 --> 00:27:21.330
We can hold them here,
or we can break this game.

00:27:21.330 --> 00:27:22.180
-We can do it.
-Come on, big guy.

00:27:22.180 --> 00:27:25.210
We\'ve had all kinds of [?].

00:27:35.420 --> 00:27:39.560
They play a second, the ball gets away,
and Lou\'s going to try for third here.

00:27:39.560 --> 00:27:40.760
The play--

00:27:41.210 --> 00:27:43.840
He\'s out on the throw to Santo.

00:27:44.570 --> 00:27:46.690
Great recovery by the Cubs.

00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:50.850
Squeezed me on a couple of pitches.

00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:53.520
[?] a ball.

00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:57.080
Fast one to May is a strike.

00:27:57.080 --> 00:27:58.290
Yes, it was right there.

00:27:58.290 --> 00:28:01.480
-He just stood there, fucking--
-Oh, fuck, he just stood there.

00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:02.540
No, but the one before that.

00:28:02.540 --> 00:28:05.000
The fast ball
and she took it on the corner, outside.

00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:05.660
Where was that?

00:28:05.660 --> 00:28:06.810
Right down the middle of the plate.

00:28:06.810 --> 00:28:08.130
A strike, it was a strike.

00:28:08.130 --> 00:28:09.400
The one I threw that to Wynn.

00:28:09.400 --> 00:28:12.610
One slider to May, one fastball to--
I mean, to Wynn was a strike,

00:28:12.610 --> 00:28:13.820
and he didn\'t give it to me.

00:28:13.820 --> 00:28:16.500
He said, [?]
I just went, \"Oh, what? Jesus Christ.\"

00:28:16.500 --> 00:28:18.080
That guy\'s an idiot up there.

00:28:20.760 --> 00:28:22.120
Unbelievable.

00:28:22.890 --> 00:28:24.280
Call those pitchers, I can\'t believe that.

00:28:24.280 --> 00:28:25.440
Oh, shit.

00:28:26.770 --> 00:28:29.320
Hey, let\'s go.
Come one, May. Come on, Roger.

00:28:32.980 --> 00:28:36.900
The throw comes in,
he is safe says the umpire.

00:28:36.900 --> 00:28:39.300
Oh, there\'s going to be a hassle here.

00:28:39.300 --> 00:28:41.250
Hundley, very upset.

00:28:42.080 --> 00:28:43.120
Santo upset.

00:28:43.120 --> 00:28:46.740
The Cubs are convinced
that Ray\'s missed the plate with his slide.

00:28:48.890 --> 00:28:50.740
Ooh, are they burned.

00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:54.900
This could cost the ball game.

00:28:54.900 --> 00:29:27.810
[MUSIC]

00:29:29.850 --> 00:29:33.600
There\'s the swing by Edwards.
Look out, this ball game could be over.

00:29:33.600 --> 00:29:36.700
Home run for Johnny Edwards,
the game is over.

00:29:36.700 --> 00:29:38.330
Oh, brother.

00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:44.490
Johnny Edwards
put the ball game in the Houston hands

00:29:44.490 --> 00:29:47.520
with a game-winning home run
here in the 10th inning

00:29:47.520 --> 00:29:52.330
and Fergie, who challenged the hitter,
this time has that challenge answered.

00:29:53.090 --> 00:29:57.410
[?] and Edwards came up
with a towering home run.

00:29:57.410 --> 00:29:59.280
What a tough finish.

00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:02.620
These Houston fans are really really happy

00:30:02.620 --> 00:30:04.780
while the Cubs says adios to the Astrodome

00:30:04.780 --> 00:30:08.520
and let\'s get back to the friendly confines
of beautiful Wrigley Field.

00:30:12.580 --> 00:30:16.500
They talk about Fergie
giving up a lot of home run balls.

00:30:16.500 --> 00:30:19.500
After a while, this bears on his mind.

00:30:19.500 --> 00:30:20.900
He\'s afraid of making a mistake

00:30:20.900 --> 00:30:23.900
because he\'s afraid
he\'s going to give up another home run.

00:30:23.900 --> 00:30:29.100
Until Fergie
can fight this battle within himself

00:30:29.100 --> 00:30:31.890
and not worry about it
and pitch his type of game,

00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:34.980
it\'s going to cause trouble for him.

00:30:34.980 --> 00:30:37.840
There\'s a lot of times I\'ll ask Fergie,
\"Well, how do you feel?\"

00:30:37.840 --> 00:30:41.090
Sometimes when he\'s warming up
he just doesn\'t feel right.

00:30:41.090 --> 00:30:42.920
It bothers him when he goes to the mound

00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:45.610
and a lot of pitchers
can have bad stuff warming up

00:30:45.610 --> 00:30:46.860
and go to the mound and have good stuff,

00:30:46.860 --> 00:30:48.850
but Fergie doesn\'t have
good stuff in the bullpen,

00:30:48.850 --> 00:30:50.620
but when he\'s warming up before the game,

00:30:50.620 --> 00:30:52.810
he goes out there
and gets a little bit psyched.

00:30:54.490 --> 00:30:56.980
In the old days, they travel by train,

00:30:57.290 --> 00:31:01.290
taking a few snorts, playing poker,
chasing the odd girl,

00:31:01.410 --> 00:31:03.560
and keeping a feel of the country.

00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:06.570
Today, it\'s instant plastic travel

00:31:06.570 --> 00:31:08.760
and players can lose track
of the town they\'re in

00:31:08.760 --> 00:31:10.650
until they get to the ballpark.

00:31:10.650 --> 00:31:13.540
Even the ballparks
are starting to look the same.

00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:15.340
Oh man.

00:31:15.620 --> 00:31:19.520
Durocher\'s coming out now
with this man in scoring position.

00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:22.340
I\'ll get him out.

00:31:22.340 --> 00:31:22.720
Huh?

00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:23.370
I\'ll get him out.

00:31:23.370 --> 00:31:25.700
You\'re going to get him out?
That\'s good enough for me, buddy.

00:31:25.700 --> 00:31:27.940
Stay right there, try to work on him.

00:31:28.760 --> 00:31:30.420
Make no mistake, that\'s all.

00:31:30.420 --> 00:31:32.140
-Come on, Jenkins.
-Come on.

00:31:32.140 --> 00:31:34.140
I want a very good play, big guy.

00:31:34.340 --> 00:31:36.020
Come on now. Give me all you\'ve got.

00:31:39.330 --> 00:31:40.370
The swing.

00:31:40.370 --> 00:31:42.440
Base hit through the infield.

00:31:43.600 --> 00:31:45.620
Alley racing for the plate.

00:31:46.280 --> 00:31:47.540
He scores.

00:31:49.500 --> 00:31:53.130
The strategy by the Cubs and Fergie
just did not work.

00:31:53.130 --> 00:31:57.180
He decided to pitch to Oliver
and it was a bad idea.

00:31:58.290 --> 00:31:59.320
Hey.

00:32:00.530 --> 00:32:01.570
You know what?

00:32:01.570 --> 00:32:02.850
-[?]
-Yes.

00:32:02.850 --> 00:32:04.800
All right. Come on, man. Go hard.

00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:15.480
Stargell swings, ground ball to Hickman.

00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:17.280
Fergie\'s getting late getting started.

00:32:18.280 --> 00:32:19.120
Damn it.

00:32:19.120 --> 00:32:20.650
Couldn\'t get there, Hick.

00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:22.980
God damn it.

00:32:31.560 --> 00:32:32.720
Don\'t let that get you down.

00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:33.530
No.

00:32:33.530 --> 00:32:35.410
I slipped, I couldn\'t break off the mound.

00:32:35.410 --> 00:32:36.090
On the mound?

00:32:36.090 --> 00:32:37.520
No, I just couldn\'t break.

00:32:37.520 --> 00:32:39.080
-Come on.
-Don\'t let that get you down now.

00:32:39.080 --> 00:32:40.320
Two away, come on.

00:32:44.260 --> 00:32:45.970
It\'s a pop fly

00:32:46.540 --> 00:32:48.640
and it\'s off Beckert\'s glove.

00:32:50.650 --> 00:32:52.170
Clemente is in

00:32:52.690 --> 00:32:55.970
and Sanguillen is being waved
around third now.

00:32:55.970 --> 00:32:58.720
If he scores, the Pirates will have the lead.

00:32:59.360 --> 00:33:01.410
He\'s racing for the plate

00:33:06.420 --> 00:33:08.370
and he\'s going to make it.

00:33:08.980 --> 00:33:12.960
The Pirates have taken the lead
late at this ball game now

00:33:13.250 --> 00:33:17.040
and the Cubs are going to be
three outs away from disaster.

00:33:25.580 --> 00:33:26.460
What?

00:33:26.460 --> 00:33:27.400
Come on, come on.

00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:29.880
You shut up, you psycho manure.

00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:42.260
That\'s what you gave me the first time.

00:33:43.080 --> 00:33:44.640
That\'s what you gave me the first time.

00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:47.690
You gave me this for the bunt.

00:33:47.690 --> 00:33:51.400
The Cubs were losing
and were being savagely attacked

00:33:51.400 --> 00:33:55.960
in the dressing room and in the dugout
by their manager, Leo Durocher.

00:33:57.620 --> 00:34:01.690
He called some of them,
including Jenkins, a bunch of quitters.

00:34:02.320 --> 00:34:05.380
Ron Santo had become so enraged one day,

00:34:05.380 --> 00:34:08.180
he leapt on Durocher
and nearly strangled him.

00:34:09.540 --> 00:34:12.330
Durocher,
who gave baseball the immortal line,

00:34:12.330 --> 00:34:14.490
\"Nice guys finish last,\"

00:34:14.900 --> 00:34:17.570
was cordially detested by his team.

00:34:18.450 --> 00:34:21.930
The Cubs were filled
with anger and frustration.

00:34:23.170 --> 00:34:24.810
God damn.

00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:30.370
Strike on the swing.

00:34:30.770 --> 00:34:32.020
I knew that.

00:34:35.600 --> 00:34:36.440
I get it.

00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:37.400
That was a tough fucking ball.

00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:38.720
Damn right, it is.

00:34:38.720 --> 00:34:39.570
It\'s bad.

00:34:40.210 --> 00:34:43.210
Tough to hit, tough to field,
tough to do everything.

00:34:44.770 --> 00:34:46.060
It\'s a nice town though.

00:34:46.060 --> 00:34:46.890
Oh, yes.

00:34:50.330 --> 00:34:52.640
He mocks Montreal Expos

00:34:52.820 --> 00:34:56.170
with half the Cub talent
we\'re having twice the fun.

00:34:57.160 --> 00:35:00.450
One man who had been playing
against the Cubs for years

00:35:00.450 --> 00:35:03.130
was the Expo veteran, Ron Fairly.

00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:05.380
They are down right now.

00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:10.940
When you lose a lot of ball games
like they have here in the last few days,

00:35:10.940 --> 00:35:12.780
it hurts the ball club psychologically.

00:35:12.780 --> 00:35:16.010
I know they\'ve got
a great deal of talent sitting in the dugout

00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:18.280
and they\'re capable
of winning a lot of ball games,

00:35:18.280 --> 00:35:21.730
but right now the ball club is down
and it is to our advantage right now

00:35:21.730 --> 00:35:25.050
to be playing them at this particular stage,
although they can get hot.

00:35:25.050 --> 00:35:27.340
When they do, and if they do,

00:35:27.340 --> 00:35:30.820
they\'re capable of winning
15 out of the next 20 ball games.

00:35:31.930 --> 00:35:37.240
So one day, in the middle of the season,
Leo Durocher was asked to resign.

00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:39.770
They disliked his tactics,

00:35:39.770 --> 00:35:43.860
they disliked his vocal opinion
of a lot of fellas,

00:35:43.860 --> 00:35:44.960
how he treated guys

00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:47.960
and he treated everybody the same,
nobody was different.

00:35:48.570 --> 00:35:52.340
To a team that had different personalities,
we had a team of nations at one time.

00:35:52.340 --> 00:35:54.930
He treated us all
like we were one individual.

00:35:54.930 --> 00:35:55.760
Well, we weren\'t.

00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:59.960
We\'re 25 different individuals and
it just disrupted the ball club completely.

00:35:59.960 --> 00:36:08.130
[MUSIC]

00:36:08.130 --> 00:36:10.980
Durocher departed for his villa in Acapulco

00:36:10.980 --> 00:36:14.370
and the Cubs were once again
a happy ball team.

00:36:16.060 --> 00:36:20.660
The new manager was a soft-spoken
gentleman called Whitey Lockman.

00:36:20.970 --> 00:36:24.650
No longer was every loss treated
as an act of treason.

00:36:25.380 --> 00:36:28.980
The new manager remembered that even the
winningest team in the history of the game,

00:36:28.980 --> 00:36:33.780
the 1906 Chicago Cubs, lost 36 ball games.

00:36:35.450 --> 00:36:37.760
Once again,
Pete Reiser turns on the batting orders,

00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:41.490
this time for the new manager,
Whitey Lockman who has taken over the cubs

00:36:41.490 --> 00:36:44.410
when Leo Durocher
was permitted to step aside.

00:36:44.410 --> 00:36:47.480
[LAUGHS]

00:36:48.580 --> 00:36:50.120
Well, once again, hi, everybody.

00:36:50.120 --> 00:36:53.180
Cubs against the Montreal Expos
here at Jarry Park In Montreal.

00:36:53.180 --> 00:36:55.810
I\'m Jack Brickhouse
along with my old pal, Jim West.

00:36:55.810 --> 00:36:58.490
Today it\'s Ferguson Jenkins,
one of the great heroes, of course,

00:36:58.490 --> 00:37:02.500
in modern Canadian athletic history
going against the Montreal Expos

00:37:02.500 --> 00:37:05.820
and if Fergie looks anything today
like he did the last couple of times out,

00:37:05.820 --> 00:37:09.000
Jim, I\'d say he\'s in
for a pretty successful evening.

00:37:14.050 --> 00:37:17.380
Fergie Jenkins in great form again tonight.

00:37:17.380 --> 00:37:19.370
Strike.

00:37:19.370 --> 00:37:21.800
Fergie\'s really mowing
him down again tonight,

00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:23.440
that slide has been working beautifully.

00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:25.250
He throws that hard slider.

00:37:26.520 --> 00:37:28.140
Strike.

00:37:28.140 --> 00:37:29.490
He got them.

00:37:29.490 --> 00:37:32.880
[?] has been setting that right arm up
an awful lot tonight.

00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:34.800
Fergie over up with the ball

00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:37.010
and it\'s an easy putout unassisted.

00:37:37.010 --> 00:37:43.290
[MUSIC]

00:37:43.290 --> 00:37:47.250
Ron Santo, the batter,
chance to drive in the lead run.

00:37:49.600 --> 00:37:51.840
He\'s been stinging that ball lately.

00:37:54.770 --> 00:37:56.200
It\'s a drive, left field.

00:37:56.200 --> 00:37:57.800
Falls in, base hit.

00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:01.010
Come on. Come on.
Come on, you got to hurry.

00:38:01.010 --> 00:38:03.450
You got to go.
You got to go, Peter, come on.

00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:14.980
Whoever wrote that song,

00:38:14.980 --> 00:38:17.640
\"When you\'re hot, you\'re hot
and when you\'re not, you\'re not.\"

00:38:17.640 --> 00:38:23.250
I wish I could\'ve written that baby because
there\'s no more truth than in that song.

00:38:23.250 --> 00:38:26.530
When I go into a slump--
Let\'s face it, when anybody goes into a slump,

00:38:26.530 --> 00:38:31.010
you start thinking, \"What can I do right?
Where\'s my hands? How am I standing?\"

00:38:31.010 --> 00:38:32.290
Really, it\'s right here.

00:38:32.290 --> 00:38:33.240
That\'s where it is.

00:38:33.240 --> 00:38:35.460
If you\'re going well,
you know you\'re going to hit.

00:38:37.240 --> 00:38:41.050
I went 0 for 17, 0 for 17, it felt good.

00:38:41.580 --> 00:38:43.890
-How can you go 0 for 17 and feel good?
-This is the truth.

00:38:43.890 --> 00:38:46.960
I\'ve never felt like a slump to me
until somebody walked up and said,

00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:49.010
\"You know that you\'re 0 for 17?\" [LAUGHTER]

00:38:49.010 --> 00:38:53.880
And then I went 1 for 18. [LAUGHTER]

00:38:54.200 --> 00:38:58.890
[MUSIC]

00:38:58.890 --> 00:39:01.140
The dog days of August can be happy days

00:39:01.140 --> 00:39:04.000
when a team is winning
and still in the pennant race.

00:39:05.260 --> 00:39:09.460
It\'s a time for old Pete Reiser
to remember back to 1941

00:39:09.860 --> 00:39:13.050
when he hit 3-43 in his first full season

00:39:13.050 --> 00:39:16.530
and was the youngest man
to ever win a batting championship.

00:39:17.600 --> 00:39:20.380
It is a time for the rookies to dream ahead,

00:39:20.850 --> 00:39:23.920
certain that their day in the sun
will come one day

00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:28.220
when the bases are loaded
and a hundred million people are looking on.

00:39:30.180 --> 00:39:32.410
Of course, when you\'re winning,
things are always a little more relaxed,

00:39:32.410 --> 00:39:34.600
but I think that there is.

00:39:34.600 --> 00:39:37.540
I think this ball club is very relaxed
and very confident right now

00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:40.360
and I\'ll tell you,
it\'s just been a lot of fun playing lately.

00:39:40.930 --> 00:39:43.490
Come on, bring it back. Bring it back.

00:39:44.180 --> 00:39:46.250
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold.

00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:49.090
Attaboy.

00:39:51.600 --> 00:39:55.730
A grand slam home run
for the young pitcher, Hooton.

00:39:56.570 --> 00:39:59.360
A miracle blow by Burt Hooton.

00:40:00.020 --> 00:40:01.170
Wow.

00:40:08.650 --> 00:40:09.610
Dude.

00:40:09.610 --> 00:40:10.660
Two strikes.

00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:13.220
Attaboy, Hooton.

00:40:13.220 --> 00:40:14.420
Now, you can hit.

00:40:14.900 --> 00:40:16.080
You can hit.

00:40:25.540 --> 00:40:28.380
With that 500 reflex I got,
I can go a long way with that.

00:40:28.380 --> 00:40:29.260
Turn around.

00:40:29.260 --> 00:40:30.840
Let\'s take a look at the--

00:40:32.060 --> 00:40:33.540
Now, that looks sharp. You see this?

00:40:34.290 --> 00:40:36.140
This is your pants.

00:40:36.140 --> 00:40:37.360
-That\'s yours?
-How about that?

00:40:39.050 --> 00:40:40.520
Don\'t tell me you got one like [?].

00:40:40.520 --> 00:40:41.360
Pardon?

00:40:42.460 --> 00:40:43.730
That\'s a little different.

00:40:43.730 --> 00:40:45.410
It is an odd color, isn\'t it?

00:40:46.080 --> 00:40:48.020
[?] there now.

00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:49.300
Huh?

00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:50.660
Wow.

00:40:50.660 --> 00:40:53.860
Just long [?].

00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:57.200
[?]

00:40:57.770 --> 00:40:59.370
Good, whatever you say.

00:41:03.010 --> 00:41:05.980
I\'ve got my clothes and all.
I feel like going on [?]

00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:10.340
You fellas doing okay?

00:41:13.010 --> 00:41:13.690
How far?

00:41:13.690 --> 00:41:15.360
What about let\'s take that limo down there?

00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:16.420
-Do you think we can get that limo?
-Limo?

00:41:16.420 --> 00:41:17.620
I sure hope so.

00:41:17.900 --> 00:41:19.340
Who\'s got the limousine?

00:41:21.140 --> 00:41:22.680
-Shouldn\'t be any problem.
-That\'s the one we want, huh?

00:41:22.820 --> 00:41:24.130
Okay, that\'s done.

00:41:31.530 --> 00:41:36.690
When I go to cut this contract,
when I go in there,

00:41:36.690 --> 00:41:38.400
they know exactly what I want.

00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:43.800
I won 20 games, I\'ve proven myself
over another period of a season,

00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:47.820
and the money is there.
All I have to do is negotiate for it.

00:41:49.160 --> 00:41:52.040
Well, usually,
the psychology of the situation is,

00:41:52.040 --> 00:41:53.770
it\'s sort of a poker game, you know?

00:41:53.770 --> 00:41:57.010
We make our demands known
right at the outset

00:41:57.010 --> 00:42:00.640
and tell him what we\'re looking for
and basically why.

00:42:00.640 --> 00:42:02.260
Fergie\'s case is a question of long--

00:42:02.260 --> 00:42:07.170
Dave Chatia of Montreal
is Ferguson Jenkins\' lawyer and negotiator.

00:42:07.170 --> 00:42:10.250
For example, with the Cubs, the last time
we walked in and told them our demands,

00:42:10.250 --> 00:42:11.960
and they said,
well, very well, they\'d think about it

00:42:11.960 --> 00:42:14.130
and they\'d get back to us,
and we were holed up in a hotel room.

00:42:14.130 --> 00:42:16.380
This was just before training camp started.

00:42:18.730 --> 00:42:20.890
They got back to us and said,
\"Well, let\'s meet again,\"

00:42:20.890 --> 00:42:22.850
and we had another three-hour session.

00:42:22.850 --> 00:42:27.980
They brought out a computer write out
of all of Fergie\'s movements

00:42:27.980 --> 00:42:30.940
and pitches from day one

00:42:30.940 --> 00:42:34.540
and then started to compare them
to pitches going back to 1928.

00:42:34.900 --> 00:42:37.980
We similarly were prepared
and had our comparable statistics.

00:42:37.980 --> 00:42:39.200
Those were negative statistics.

00:42:39.200 --> 00:42:41.770
They tried to run him down
with Fergie in the room,

00:42:41.770 --> 00:42:44.930
but we had psychologically
prepared Fergie for this sort of thing.

00:42:45.780 --> 00:42:47.360
It\'s a big game of poker.

00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:49.860
In the file analysis,
they know they\'re going to have to sign him.

00:42:49.860 --> 00:42:51.660
Obviously, he\'s their ace pitcher,

00:42:51.810 --> 00:42:55.720
so it\'s a game of seeing who\'s going to
bluff who for the longest period of time.

00:42:55.720 --> 00:42:59.600
You know that the longest contract
I think for a superstar in your category

00:42:59.600 --> 00:43:01.080
has been about three years,

00:43:01.080 --> 00:43:04.010
but this year,
I have informed Mr. Holland very discreetly

00:43:04.010 --> 00:43:07.130
that he should start talking
in terms of five years for yourself

00:43:07.130 --> 00:43:08.740
and in seven figures.

00:43:08.740 --> 00:43:11.810
In other words, we\'re looking in a
million-dollar-plus contract for you now.

00:43:11.810 --> 00:43:16.820
I\'m sure that Burt will agree
with our plans in that direction.

00:43:16.820 --> 00:43:18.320
Just cut me in, that\'s all.

00:43:18.940 --> 00:43:23.100
Joining the Chatia stable is the young
knuckle curve sensation, Burt Hooton,

00:43:23.100 --> 00:43:24.650
who is yet to hit the big money.

00:43:24.650 --> 00:43:25.880
I don\'t know
if he\'ll go for the seven figures,

00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:27.800
but we\'re going to get there pretty quickly.

00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:31.020
The thing is, if you go in there yourself
and you try and toot your own horn,

00:43:31.020 --> 00:43:32.600
you\'re going to get a lot less money.

00:43:32.600 --> 00:43:34.890
I think David and Larry
have done a fine job for me.

00:43:35.720 --> 00:43:38.130
They\'ve got me more money
than I ever thought about getting.

00:43:38.560 --> 00:43:40.740
How are we going to pitch
to Ron Hunt tomorrow?

00:43:40.980 --> 00:43:42.860
Put your knee in
and hope he puts his head in the way.

00:43:42.860 --> 00:43:44.360
[LAUGHTER]

00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:45.820
It\'s a base hit.

00:43:45.820 --> 00:43:48.570
Fergie on second, heading for third,

00:43:49.100 --> 00:43:51.570
and it looks like
he\'s going to try for the plate.

00:43:51.570 --> 00:43:52.780
He is.

00:43:52.780 --> 00:43:54.400
It\'s going to be close.

00:43:54.610 --> 00:43:58.130
The throw beats him in,
he hits the dirt and he is out of [?].

00:43:58.130 --> 00:44:01.490
Yes, Fergie may have hurt himself
on that one.

00:44:07.690 --> 00:44:09.610
What exactly do you do with a leg like that?

00:44:09.610 --> 00:44:11.760
Well, right now what I\'m trying to do is--

00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:14.250
See, he has this hemorrhage
right above the knee

00:44:14.250 --> 00:44:16.360
from that collision had the other day.

00:44:16.360 --> 00:44:18.530
You can see the accumulated blood there,

00:44:18.530 --> 00:44:21.400
and what we\'re trying to do is clear this out.

00:44:21.700 --> 00:44:24.930
Baseball is a game
of muscular strain and sprain,

00:44:24.930 --> 00:44:27.100
rather than football.

00:44:27.100 --> 00:44:31.050
Football and ice hockey
are all contact injuries, you know, boom.

00:44:31.050 --> 00:44:37.420
Now, there\'s very few injuries they have
in baseball that the result of a collision.

00:44:37.420 --> 00:44:40.560
Maybe, sometimes at first base,
you\'re sliding in the second base,

00:44:40.560 --> 00:44:44.370
or an outfielder hits the wall
and jams the shoulder turn,

00:44:44.370 --> 00:44:48.300
but that\'s about the only time
that you have a contact injury.

00:44:48.300 --> 00:44:49.240
Oh, shit.

00:44:49.240 --> 00:44:50.260
Did it get underneath the pad?

00:44:50.260 --> 00:44:50.650
Yes.

00:44:50.650 --> 00:44:50.970
Huh?

00:44:50.970 --> 00:44:51.460
Yes.

00:44:51.460 --> 00:44:52.540
Can you roll it back?

00:44:52.540 --> 00:44:53.600
I\'ll give you a little shot of this.

00:44:53.600 --> 00:44:54.410
Yes, give me that.

00:44:54.410 --> 00:44:55.180
Where is it?

00:44:55.180 --> 00:44:55.700
Right here?

00:44:56.540 --> 00:44:57.180
All right.

00:44:57.180 --> 00:44:58.140
Okay.

00:44:58.140 --> 00:44:59.410
It\'s the second one.

00:44:59.560 --> 00:45:01.210
Blood [?]

00:45:01.650 --> 00:45:03.850
When old Pete Reiser
was playing with the Dodgers,

00:45:03.850 --> 00:45:05.560
he would do anything to win.

00:45:06.130 --> 00:45:09.620
He was carried off the field
unconscious 11 times.

00:45:10.250 --> 00:45:13.480
He came back to play one day,
even when a doctor warned him

00:45:13.480 --> 00:45:15.920
that any blow in the head would kill him.

00:45:16.530 --> 00:45:20.560
He was once given the last rites
of the Catholic Church in the dressing room,

00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:24.300
but finally, suffering from double vision
and disease spells,

00:45:24.300 --> 00:45:26.440
his great career was over.

00:45:27.240 --> 00:45:29.610
He never regretted the way he played.

00:45:30.040 --> 00:45:33.170
He said, \"God gave me the legs,

00:45:33.280 --> 00:45:36.850
and when they took me into the wall,
that\'s the way it had to be.\"

00:45:36.850 --> 00:45:39.810
We played a different type of ball
in those days.

00:45:39.810 --> 00:45:43.240
Everything was rough and tumble,
it\'s get the other guy.

00:45:43.240 --> 00:45:45.640
If the first baseman
happened to put his foot across first base,

00:45:46.240 --> 00:45:48.900
your job was to step on it
if he didn\'t get it out of the way.

00:45:48.900 --> 00:45:52.300
Oh, well, of course,
you always hear the thing, in the old days--

00:45:52.300 --> 00:45:56.980
Ty Cobb, the old days,
but I think that baseball has changed

00:45:56.980 --> 00:45:59.900
because I think baseball
is such a big business now.

00:45:59.900 --> 00:46:05.730
I don\'t think any ballplayer
willfully wants to injure his opponent

00:46:05.730 --> 00:46:08.970
just by a slide and like they say,

00:46:08.970 --> 00:46:12.290
Cobb used to slide in the second base
with his spikes up.

00:46:12.290 --> 00:46:15.180
You see that once in a while here,
but very seldom.

00:46:15.780 --> 00:46:16.640
No, not too much.

00:46:16.640 --> 00:46:19.120
Nobody wants to come out here and get hurt,
but at the same time,

00:46:19.120 --> 00:46:20.760
you\'re out here for one reason,
you\'ve got to win.

00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:22.280
If you don\'t win, you haven\'t done a thing.

00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:37.800
The most feared weapon in baseball
is the purpose pitch.

00:46:37.930 --> 00:46:42.460
A ball that is deliberately thrown
in the vicinity of a batter\'s head.

00:46:43.860 --> 00:46:45.730
The ball really wasn\'t that bad of a pitch.

00:46:45.730 --> 00:46:48.760
It wasn\'t like behind my head
where you normally get hit,

00:46:48.760 --> 00:46:51.650
it was more inside, and I just went into it

00:46:51.650 --> 00:46:54.240
and I saw that I couldn\'t get away
and I turned.

00:46:54.240 --> 00:46:58.220
The ball just kind of ran in on me
and hit me and broke this cheekbone.

00:46:58.220 --> 00:47:01.520
I could feel it in my mouth,
the cheekbone was down in my mouth.

00:47:01.520 --> 00:47:02.800
I knew it was busted.

00:47:03.600 --> 00:47:07.300
The only thing was, I thought I was blinded
because my eyes shut so quick, you know?

00:47:07.300 --> 00:47:12.130
I was one of the first ones,
or I think maybe I was the first one, too.

00:47:12.130 --> 00:47:16.420
By the time I could get
from my own deck circle to the home plate,

00:47:16.420 --> 00:47:19.400
his eye swelled close together.

00:47:21.570 --> 00:47:25.980
That\'s a frightening thing
to see a baseball coming at you

00:47:25.980 --> 00:47:28.250
and then trying to get out of the way of it.

00:47:28.250 --> 00:47:31.700
Of course, I\'ve never been hit like that,
thank goodness.

00:47:31.700 --> 00:47:35.740
A ball that\'s thrown behind you,
right back here is the ball that--

00:47:35.740 --> 00:47:36.810
it scares the hell out of you.

00:47:36.810 --> 00:47:39.000
I\'ll tell you,
just scares the living hell out of you.

00:47:39.300 --> 00:47:41.210
You know it was a purpose pitch,

00:47:41.210 --> 00:47:44.620
and I feel like a guy
that throws a ball behind my head,

00:47:44.620 --> 00:47:45.850
he doesn\'t care if he hits me.

00:47:45.850 --> 00:47:47.600
He\'s jeopardizing my career.

00:47:47.600 --> 00:47:49.730
Oh, he\'s back, huh?

00:47:49.730 --> 00:47:50.960
How\'s his jaw?

00:47:51.080 --> 00:47:52.320
Broken in three places.

00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:53.420
Well, how did he do it?

00:47:53.780 --> 00:47:58.540
Well, it was a ground ball,
hit to the right side of second base,

00:47:58.540 --> 00:47:59.970
and he went over to field the ball.

00:47:59.970 --> 00:48:01.730
What it looked like to me,

00:48:01.730 --> 00:48:06.540
Foley was going to try to catch the ball
then tag big guy.

00:48:07.090 --> 00:48:08.330
Yes, I know him.

00:48:09.450 --> 00:48:10.130
Watson?

00:48:10.130 --> 00:48:10.540
Watson.

00:48:10.540 --> 00:48:11.940
Going to try to tag Watson.

00:48:11.940 --> 00:48:15.380
Instead of hitting face on,
old Watson was putting his hands like this,

00:48:15.380 --> 00:48:18.120
and I guess it apparently got him with,
you know?

00:48:19.740 --> 00:48:21.420
He couldn\'t talk for a while?

00:48:21.420 --> 00:48:24.880
Broken here, here, here,

00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:27.580
and shoved one of the teeth down in the crack.

00:48:28.660 --> 00:48:31.290
Oh, oh, sure. Oh, sure.

00:48:31.290 --> 00:48:33.340
[?]

00:48:35.730 --> 00:48:37.300
When are you going to work again?

00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:39.820
Well, probably pitching on Friday.

00:48:39.820 --> 00:48:40.450
Friday?

00:48:40.450 --> 00:48:45.200
For pitchers, the slightest bodily injury
can mean the end of a career,

00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:49.900
for it can disturb his pitching motion,
and that can destroy his arm.

00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:55.260
The great Dizzy Dean had won 133 ball games
by the time he was 26.

00:48:55.570 --> 00:48:57.760
Then a ball hit him in the toe.

00:48:58.090 --> 00:49:00.140
He altered his pitching motion,

00:49:00.140 --> 00:49:03.320
and in a matter of months,
his great arm was gone.

00:49:03.320 --> 00:49:06.820
In terms of pitching now, you just can\'t put
any weight on that knee at all?

00:49:06.820 --> 00:49:09.040
I could put weight on it, but I can\'t bend it.

00:49:10.060 --> 00:49:14.450
With the right leg, this is where
I push off on the mound off the rubber.

00:49:15.300 --> 00:49:17.170
If you were in a pitching situation now,

00:49:17.170 --> 00:49:20.340
-you would only be pitching with an arm motion?
-Right, I\'d be throwing whatever,

00:49:20.340 --> 00:49:21.890
just pitching, and throwing with my arm.

00:49:21.890 --> 00:49:23.080
That\'s dangerous?

00:49:24.330 --> 00:49:25.140
For me, it would be

00:49:25.140 --> 00:49:28.300
because I probably won\'t be able
to throw like that for a couple of innings.

00:49:31.320 --> 00:50:21.040
[piano plays The Entertainer blues style]

00:50:21.620 --> 00:50:25.130
You just think about the time
that you don\'t have to yourself.

00:50:27.090 --> 00:50:29.400
For eight, nine months
you\'re doing nothing but baseball.

00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:30.850
You can\'t get away from it.

00:50:33.100 --> 00:50:34.500
It\'s heavy after a while.

00:50:34.500 --> 00:50:35.700
You get bored,

00:50:36.170 --> 00:50:40.440
and we\'re not playing that well right now,
and it\'s kind of boring.

00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:44.240
This is it, when a ball club is going good
and when a player\'s going good,

00:50:44.240 --> 00:50:46.640
he wants to get up in the morning
and go right to the ballpark

00:50:46.640 --> 00:50:48.640
where he can keep everything going,

00:50:48.640 --> 00:50:52.920
but when you\'re in a losing streak
like we\'re in now,

00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:55.720
it\'s tough to get up for every ballgame.

00:50:56.680 --> 00:51:00.780
You have to keep going, though,
because you feel that somewhere,

00:51:00.780 --> 00:51:03.600
you\'ll reach that certain point that
you\'re going to start winning ballgames

00:51:03.600 --> 00:51:07.200
and everything will fall into place again,
so this is what we\'re waiting on now.

00:51:07.200 --> 00:51:08.620
How did we get on that, anyway?

00:51:08.620 --> 00:51:09.680
Baseball?

00:51:09.680 --> 00:51:10.860
He brought it up, not me.

00:51:12.260 --> 00:51:14.480
Yes, it\'s a frustrating game.

00:51:16.660 --> 00:51:20.380
Late in the season,
after being booed by Cub fans,

00:51:20.660 --> 00:51:23.980
Ferguson Jenkins
started throwing bats onto the field

00:51:23.980 --> 00:51:25.640
and demanding to be traded.

00:51:27.610 --> 00:51:29.260
I just wanted to take a walk, that\'s all.

00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:32.020
I just wanted to take a walk, that\'s all.

00:51:34.080 --> 00:51:36.210
I was trying to get him to pull
that ball over there.

00:51:36.210 --> 00:51:38.120
I didn\'t want him
to get that runner over to second.

00:51:38.120 --> 00:51:39.810
-Yes, it\'s okay.
-He hit a good pitch,

00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:42.800
you know, he got that cut and picked it.
What are you going to do?

00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:43.720
All right?

00:51:43.720 --> 00:51:45.650
Got to keep going hard.

00:51:52.600 --> 00:51:53.890
Swung on,

00:51:54.500 --> 00:51:58.500
and it bounces off of Kessinger\'s glove,
safe all around.

00:52:03.090 --> 00:52:05.780
Well, that really makes things tough.

00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:10.540
Pitiful missing that ground ball I missed.

00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:14.720
Pitiful, pitiful.

00:52:14.720 --> 00:52:16.810
That brings Willie Davis to bat.

00:52:22.730 --> 00:52:24.340
Ground ball. High hopper to Fergie.

00:52:24.340 --> 00:52:26.450
Over to second for one. Here\'s the relay.

00:52:26.450 --> 00:52:27.940
It\'s a double play.

00:52:41.060 --> 00:52:42.820
That might be it, Skip.

00:52:43.490 --> 00:52:46.380
I don\'t want to start off the next inning
and then be horse shit.

00:52:46.730 --> 00:52:49.250
Jenkins pulled himself from the ballgame.

00:52:49.680 --> 00:52:53.460
It was late in the season,
and the great arm was exhausted.

00:52:54.530 --> 00:52:58.860
I didn\'t have any reaction to my arm
that would tell me that,

00:52:58.860 --> 00:53:01.120
fine, you could go two or three more innings.

00:53:01.120 --> 00:53:04.730
My arm was at a point
where it\'d just stop working for me.

00:53:04.730 --> 00:53:07.000
My arm is possibly telling me that

00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:10.000
over the period of times that I pitched
300 innings the last couple of years,

00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:11.120
or the last four or five years,

00:53:11.120 --> 00:53:14.010
that this year
is possibly a little different,

00:53:14.010 --> 00:53:19.700
that my arm possibly needs more rest
or it\'s had enough throwing for one year.

00:53:24.660 --> 00:53:28.760
Even the off-season in baseball
is steeped in ritual.

00:53:29.680 --> 00:53:33.410
Ballplayers, by tradition,
go hunting and fishing.

00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:37.970
A writer once said that
although he could play baseball all right,

00:53:38.180 --> 00:53:40.340
he knew he\'d never make the big leagues

00:53:40.340 --> 00:53:42.410
because he was lousy at hunting and fishing.

00:53:42.410 --> 00:53:44.420
You can\'t pick your gun up quick enough

00:53:44.420 --> 00:53:46.530
and you\'re doing
the same vital stance all the time,

00:53:46.530 --> 00:53:48.120
going like this reaching for your gun.

00:53:48.720 --> 00:53:51.520
It starts to get light
and you see a couple right on top of the water

00:53:51.520 --> 00:53:53.860
and they go right over your decoy, whoosh.

00:53:53.860 --> 00:53:55.860
You\'re out there, moosey, moosey.

00:53:55.860 --> 00:53:58.170
We\'re going to get you, moosey, moosey.

00:53:59.700 --> 00:54:01.080
Oh, yes, they\'re in there.

00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:03.960
They\'re not moving around, that\'s all.

00:54:05.840 --> 00:54:07.000
There go the moose.

00:54:07.810 --> 00:54:09.920
Moosey, moosey, moosey. [LAUGHS]

00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:12.340
Three, four days hunting for a moose
up and down those roads.

00:54:12.340 --> 00:54:15.210
A lot of modern players, it\'s true,
now work in the off-season

00:54:15.210 --> 00:54:18.010
as stockbrokers or junior executives,

00:54:18.220 --> 00:54:21.220
but Fergie Jenkins
and his friend Billy Williams

00:54:21.220 --> 00:54:23.090
are true to the good old ways.

00:54:23.090 --> 00:54:24.660
Rum and Coke.

00:54:25.700 --> 00:54:27.010
I\'ll say one thing,

00:54:27.560 --> 00:54:29.220
a nice boring evening

00:54:29.770 --> 00:54:32.010
and you bring in some Screech, livens it up.

00:54:32.680 --> 00:54:35.560
Like myself, I never have seen a moose,

00:54:35.560 --> 00:54:39.090
but maybe if I see one,
I might get that type of fever.

00:54:39.090 --> 00:54:42.650
They call it buck fever
when you\'re shooting at a deer in Alabama.

00:54:42.650 --> 00:54:46.260
Of course, looking at a big moose
weighing about 800 pounds,

00:54:46.260 --> 00:54:48.440
you might get a little bit jittery.

00:54:48.440 --> 00:54:49.650
I\'ve never had the opportunity.

00:54:49.650 --> 00:54:54.800
I hope before I leave Newfoundland,
I\'ll get that chance.

00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:57.320
[MUSIC]

00:54:57.320 --> 00:55:01.900
While Fergie and Billy hunted,
PK Wrigley dismantled his team.

00:55:03.330 --> 00:55:05.740
The Durocher Cubs were through.

00:55:07.170 --> 00:55:10.540
It\'d been one of the highest
paid teams in baseball history,

00:55:10.540 --> 00:55:12.530
and it hadn\'t won a pennant.

00:55:14.260 --> 00:55:18.690
The great third baseman, Ron Santo,
went to the White Sox.

00:55:19.920 --> 00:55:24.200
The catcher, Randy Hundley,
went to the Minnesota Twins.

00:55:24.780 --> 00:55:27.900
Speaker: was last seen hitting for Japan.

00:55:29.540 --> 00:55:32.700
Fergie Jenkins, the golden arm of the Cubs,

00:55:32.700 --> 00:55:37.810
got his wish and was traded
to the Texas Rangers of the American League.

00:55:38.770 --> 00:55:41.980
In the sunny far-off land of spring training,

00:55:42.380 --> 00:55:46.000
it was once again
a time of innocence and hope,

00:55:46.290 --> 00:55:51.300
where everything was in order
and all things once again seem possible.

00:55:51.300 --> 00:56:52.810
[piano plays Take Me Out to the Ballgame]