Ceremonial first pitch

Now, Mark Belanger, 0-3 yesterday, but delivered a key sacrifice front of the game.

Oakland's first pitch is a ball too low.

So we're on the way.

Here on a beautiful afternoon at the Oakland Coliseum.

Burt Campanaris leading off against Dave McNally, who was 16-10.

He finished strong, winning eight of his last 10 decisions.

The first pitch is high in sight to Campanaris, 4-1.

Campanaris, who drove in all three open runs yesterday, he was 3-4, but the sacrifice flies.

Hi, guys.

What's happening? Nate mentioned he wanted to talk about my first pitch yesterday.

Yeah, Sandy, you throw a strike or

what? Well...

You got to, you got to come down and cross paths with us on Saturday and tell Sandy, if she's listening, she's in Sandy is in, I can't wait.

That's awesome.

That she got the chance to throw out the first pitch.

Sandy sounds like she's a really big deal.

Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for our national anthem, which will be played by the Hamilton American Legion Post Number 20 Senior Drum and Bugle Corps.

[national anthem playing] And now we're going to have the ceremonial, uh, first pitch.

And the honor here goes to Rube Marquard, a Hall of Famer, one of the outstanding left-handed pitchers of all time.

He's 82 years old.

One of those two, however, was a three-run home run off this man, Palmer, and he too is first-ball hitting, and Rettenmund is waiting for it.

[crowd cheering]

Well, the Pirates going after that first pitch.

They're a first-ball hitting team, but here's one man who's not.

of the American League at third Billy Williams of the National League down the left field line and Emmert Ashford of the American League umpiring the right field line six umpires in the game Don Buford who set a Baltimore club record for most walks in the season he walked one hundred nine times there is a seasonal average two seventy two seventeen homers and Sparky Anderson yelling something out That ball had been a rubber plastic ball had been tossed out in the right field area.

Buford gets a lot of walks, but he'll jump on that first pitch if it's right where he wants it.

And he can hit with some power.

Last year in the World Series in Baltimore, he led off with a home run against the Mets.

Here's the first pitch of the 70 series.

It's a curve at the ball.

Paul Blair's on deck and Booth fouls in the hole.

You pitch him outside though he'll go to left field and hit it deep.

As another example of how baseball cares, The training of firemen in CPR is a part of a community program sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Ewing Kaufman that has a goal of training 100,000 Kansas Cityans in the next two years.

We direct your attention to the home plate side of the Royals' dugout where the three men will throw out a ceremonial first pitch in recognition of their heroics.

Gentlemen, fire when ready.

A tremendous story.