MLB 1966 World Series Highlights

RIP to MLB's greatest defensive third-baseman of the entire history of the major leagues, Brooks Robinson (1937-2023).

RIP to the American League Triple Crown Winner, American League and World Series MVP himself, Frank Robinson. 1935-2019.

That series sweep was a real shocker to most. The end of great Koufax career and the birth of the baby birds.

Brooks Robinson's lifetime record at the plate doesn't give justice to his clutch hitting in important games. During those types of games he was a power to be reckoned with.

Luis Aparicio, SS of the Orioles, (85 years old) lives in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. He is a member of the Cooperstown Hall of Fame

Thank you so much for posting this. It means a lot. I immigrated to the USA in 1963 as a 3-year old, and it's only now that I got to watch this much of my beloved Orioles in the 1966 World Series! God bless you.

Jim Palmer would get his first World Series win in game 2. His last in game 3 of the 1983 World Series 17 years later.

This was a very special time to be living in Baltimore. I was in grade school at Marrs Estates, in Essex. Man, we loved The Orioles, The Colts and The Beatles.

ALL day games...amazing.... ..the way it should be....

Orioles Magic! Thank you very much for posting this video! It brought back one of the happiest of memories, to a then 9 year old little girl.

Chuck Thompson, one of baseball's greatest voices.

These World Series films here on YouTube are great!!!

I watched Game 2 of the '66 World Series on Television. Game time was 2:26 pm. I got out of school at 3:00pm and raced home. Sandy was still on the mound. I watched in frustration as the Dodgers defense let Sandy Koufax down! Frank Robinson's misplayed flyball in the 6th Inning was ruled a Triple. Boog Powell singled in Robinson effectively ending Sandy Koufax's World Series Conservative Scoreless Innings streak at 24 Innings. I'll never forget how sick to my stomach I felt watching this unfold on television that day! Interestingly, Sandy Koufax got out of the 6th Inning with a most unusual bases loaded double play ~ Andy Etchebarren hit a ground ball to Jim Gilliam at Third Base who threw to John Roseboro at Home who stepped on Home Plate and then threw to First Baseman Wes Parker! This play is featured briefly at the beginning of this video.

Brooks Robinson is the greatest defensive infielder ever

Wow I was just 3 days old. Now I'm 50. But it's always fun to look back, thanks.

Interestingly, the trio of Palmer, Bunker and McNally had pitched only one shutout total during the season.

To understand how dominant the Orioles were in this series - Not only did the Orioles sweep Los Angeles, but McNally was the ONLY Orioles pitcher to give up a single run in the series. The entire Orioles staff only gave up a total of 17 hits across 4 games. The Orioles two closers, Eddie Fisher and Stu Miller, didn't pitch once in the series. While every single Dodgers pitcher, except for Don Sutton, saw action in this series. Might just be the most dominant team performance in World Series history.

That song played at the start of the video--"It's a beautiful day for a ball game ..."--for years in the 1960s was played before Cubs games on WGN radio!

Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale ultimately went on to work with Vin Scully as the voice of Dodger baseball broadcasts. Sadly in 1993 Mr. Drysdale while in Montreal, Canada covering a game between the Dodgers and the Montreal Expos died of a heart attack in his hotel room.

R.I.P.: Frank Robinson, 1966 Triple Crown Winner, and the key to this World Series Championship won by the Orioles.