Newsreel entitled "Babe Ruth Breaks All Home Run Records." Title screen notes Ruth has hit 26 home runs to this point in 1919 season, a major league baseball record at the time. Shots of Ruth warming up pitching arm before game at Boston's Fenway Park, with park's famed "Green Monster" wall in background. Shots of Ruth pitching. Shots of Ruth swatting a long hit, running to first base and rounding the base toward second. Shots of crowd waving hats and cheering. Shot of Ruth rounding third, heading for home.
The 1964 World Series moves to a filled Yankee Stadium in New York with the Yankees and Cardinals tied one game apiece. In the ninth inning, Yankee great Mickey Mantle comes to the plate as fans cheer, and blasts the first pitch into the right-field stands for a game-winning home run. Teammates congratulate him as he crosses home plate. In game 4, Yankees take early 3-0 lead until Cardinals third baseman Ken Boyer (seen in closeup) hits a home run with the bases loaded to put Cardinals on top 4-3, the final score. Game 5, still at the stadium, Cardinals lead 2-0 in ninth inning but outfielder Tom Tresh blasts homer to tie the game and send it into extra innings. Announcer notes this has been a superb World Series as Tresh seen rounding bases. Shot of scoreboard showing tie score. In top of 10th inning, Cardinals catcher Tim McCarver, seen in closeup, hits a three-run homer to put Cardinals back on top. In the bottom of the 10th, Yankees' Roger Maris hits a popup which Ken Boyer catches leaning into the stands to make the final out. Cardinals lead the series three games to two, would go on to win it in seven.
Newsreel clip entitled "World Series: Yanks and Giants Tied Up at Two Games Each." Highlights from games three and four of baseball's 1951 World Series at the New York Giants' stadium in Manhattan, the Polo Grounds. Many fans chomping on snacks, smoking cigars or cigarettes. Fans dangle their feet over edge of the upper deck. Close up of Giants rookie star and future Hall of Famer Willie Mays. Mays singles to right field, scoring Bobby Thomson from second base. Giants fans stand and cheer; African American man in hat shouts "That's my boy!" Later, Giants' Eddie Stanky kicks ball out of the glove of Yankees' Phil Rizzuto's glove, advances to third. Giants' Monte Irvin drives in Alvin Dark with infield hit. Giants' Whitey Lockman hits three-run homer. Fans cheer, teammates welcome Lockman at home plate. Giants win game 6-2. Action shifts to game four, still at Polo Grounds. Yankees' Bobby Brown hits long fly to center field. Willie Mays catches it but falls down, allowing Yankees' Gene Woodling to run to third. Joe Collins scores Woodling with a single. In the fifth inning, Yankees' Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio hits a home run to left field, scoring himself and fellow Hall of Famer Yogi Berra, who jumps excitedly as he runs around the bases. Fans cheer as Yankees greet DiMaggio in dugout. Yankees win game, 6-2, and would go on to win the series, four games to two.
Newsreel clip entitled "Yanks Win Series." Highlights from game 7 of 1952 World Series in which the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers to claim their fourth straight Major League Baseball championship. Clip opens with fans pouring into Dodgers' Ebbets Field and cheering in the stands. Closeup of Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese (#7), who hits single to left in fifth inning, scoring Billy Cox. Closeup of Yankees outfielder Mickey Mantle (also #7). Dodgers pitcher Joe Black throws. Mantle hits home run to put Yankees ahead, runs around bases as fans cheer. Shots of Dodgers' fans looking nervous and also at times cheering in the stands, wearing suits, hats. Dodgers second baseman Jackie Robinson hits popup with bases loaded in seventh inning. Yankees second baseman Billy Martin races in to make shoestring catch. Dodger fan in hat looking disgruntled. Yankees mob relief pitcher Bob Kuzava after he gets the final out in the ninth inning to clinch the series. Yankees manager Casey Stengel celebrates in clubhouse.
New York Yankees get ready for 1952 baseball season at spring training in St. Petersburg Florida. Shot of manager Casey Stengel talking. Shot of Yankees' "Big Three" starting pitchers warming up -- Allie Reynolds, Vic Raschi and Eddie Lopat. Catcher Yogi Berra catches a ball. Announcer notes absence of Joe DiMaggio, who retired after last season, but notes Yankees have plenty of other talent, including shortstop Phil Rizzuto, seen bunting. Candidates for Yankees' first base position run across the base and catch throws. Announcer says DiMaggio's replacement in center field will be Mickey Mantle, seen catching a fly ball (with trees in background), unleashing a strong throw, and flashing a big, youthful smile in a closeup view as he removes his cap. Yogi Berra bashes a long fly to right field.
Beach scene at Tumon Bay, Guam in 1945, at end of World War 2 . Bathers and some small boats in water of a bay. Sand beach covered with palm trees and other semitropical flora. People seated on the sands. Water of the bay and promenatory of land in background. Different sequence, showing three U.S. Landing Craft Support, Large, LCS (L) clustered together at anchor in a bay, with buildings on shore in background. The mast of a U.S.warship. A U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bomber in flight overhead. It displays tail code of solid black square with "M" inside, identifying it as belonging to the 20th Air Force, 314th Bomb Wing, 19th Bomb Group, based at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam. Camera focuses on the bomber as it passes overhead. Sailors speed into the bay, aboard a motor boat. The B-29 circles directly overhead, passing the American flag displayed on the main mast of a warship. The B-29 appears to be descending to land at the airbase.
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