Review of the 1958 baseball season. Clip opens with Ebbets Field in Brooklyn and Polo Grounds in New York sitting empty after the Dodgers and Giants left for the West Coast. The teams are welcomed by parades and thousands of cheering fans in Los Angeles and San Francisco respectively. The season ends with the Milwaukee Braves and New York Yankees in the World Series for the second straight year. In game 7 at County Stadium in Milwaukee, Bill Skowron hits a home run to give the Yankees a 6-2 lead. Mickey Mantle catches the final out in center field as the Yankees clinch the game and series and celebrate as they run to the dugout.
At the end of the harness racing season in Yonkers Raceway, a moving car carries mobile starting gate with harness racers aligned across the track behind it. The gate folds up and the starter car speeds away allowing the race to get underway. Spectators in the stands are seen dressed warmly on this cold, damp December day. The horses, and drivers in sulkies,race around the water-covered track. Narrator comments that horses were meant to run, not swim.
Pilot whale named Bubbles in a pool as she celebrates her 1st anniversary of captivity at Marineland of the Pacific, Palos Verdes California. A man feeds Bubbles. People pose for photo. Bubbles jumps as man feeds.
Workers work in Jet propulsion laboratory at Pasadena, California. A worker rolls a piece of metal sheet into cylindrical shape in a machine to use as rocket motor case.
In an exterior view of Jet propulsion laboratory at Pasadena, California, sign board and buildings are shown. Mountain ranges in the background and white painted buildings are seen. Name of the laboratory is written on a sign board.
Static test number 1043 of XLR-11 engine for X-15, on January 12, 1959,at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Engine in test stand.
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