Russ Hodges

Francisco Giants baseball is on air.

How are you doing, everybody? This is Russ Hodges along with Lon Simmons and Bill Thompson.

bidding you welcome to another Giants ball game from Honeymack Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Tonight's game between the Giants and the Philadelphia Bills is brought to you by Berkey, the comfortable beer.

Two errors for the Phillies.

The losing pitcher, Gary Wagner, and winning his sixth is Gaylord Perry.

Now this is Russ Hodges for Lon Simmons and Bill Thompson.

Reminding you to stay tuned for the Giants Clubhouse, which follows, and inviting you to be back with us tomorrow evening.

So if there are any questions you folks would like to...

Oh, no, we're not, can't do that, can you? You know, uh, years ago, Russ Hodges, when he was working, he was, uh, we used to do his show Which, uh, would allow people to call us up, you know, before the regular game, and we'd do that once a week.

But unfortunately, we, it had one bad aspect to it.

There were too many people that couldn't get through.

And sometimes, you know, the call makes it, you know.

Um, there's the Russ Hodges-

No, yeah

... you know, Giants win the Pennant.

And I'm going back to 1962.

I can remember I was in, what, second grade? Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons and actually my son who's now 32 has Lon's autograph on his baseball cap but I was going you know Dave Flemming and I go and I remember when Dave came on and I go well who did he replace and I go oh my god that was Ted Robinson and maybe we've forgotten about him but he was a really great broadcaster as well and I mean, he went on to his passion with the U.S.

Open for tennis, but he definitely gave us a few seasons of good baseball.

Oh, Ted Robinson.

They called it the Miracle at Coogan's Bluff because the Polo Grounds in New York City were located down at the bottom of a bluff called Coogan's Bluff.

The Miracle at Coogan's Bluff came on one pitch that Ralph Branca delivered and Russ Hodges memorialized in his spectacular call.

Branca throws.

[crowd cheering] There's a long drive.

This game will be just a few minutes tardy in starting due to the fact, uh, it started to, uh, rain a bit here at a time when, uh, the pitchers, uh, were delayed in starting to warm up.

So if there any questions you folks would like to-- oh, no, we're not-- can't do that, can you? You know, uh, years ago, Russ Hodges, when he was working, he was, uh-- we used to do a show in which, uh, we'd allow people to call us up, you know, before the regularly game, and we'd do that once a week.

But unfortunately, we-- it had one bad aspect to it.

There were too many people that couldn't get through.