1980 Sox video on Youtube

[kba]

Spotted on Youtube: A 1980 TV-44 Sox promo with a few game highlights.

Recognizable: Steve Trout, Mike Squires, Chet Lemon, Claudell Washington, and Junior Moore.

It's at the 2:35 mark in this video, right after the ad for the medical book, and before the lucky couple gets together on "The Dating Game."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCUaVWftgAw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCUaVWftgAw)

The promo ran during the 1980 season, but at least some of the highlights appear to be from the previous year. The Jim Rice pick-off must have been this game:

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B08180BOS1979.htm

[soxnut]

I remember those commercials. Pretty cool! Thanks for sharing.

[Fenway]

great shot of the old scoreboard lighting up the night. :D:

[stl_sox_fan]

Welcome to WSI?

I need to find that Medical book on Amazon. Afterall, he did say it could save my life. Did they still encourage smoking and a high carb diet back in 1980?

[pagansoxfan]

now if only we could get the vid of that woman in the red nighty doing the news, lol.

[CurtisEBear]

Here's a trippy Ch 32 Sox promo from 1982.

Comes on at 2:16, after the Woolite Commercial from the Knoxville World's Fair.

Look for the sunsphere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uNr1-wz_po

[kba]

Here's a trippy Ch 32 Sox promo from 1982.

Comes on at 2:16, after the Woolite Commercial from the Knoxville World's Fair.

Look for the sunsphere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uNr1-wz_po

Good catch. I think Channel 32 used that same animation to open the game telecasts.

Here's another (at 1:10), with Ozzie starting a line-drive double play:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moICr2TZEEc

[Cuck_The_Fubs]

nice :cool:

[mrwag]

Man, that's amazing that I actually remember that channel 32 Sox commercial! I was only 8 in 1982.
Commercials sure were long, back in the day.

[Lip Man 1]

I remember the days when commercial breaks were only 2 and a half minutes long! (sigh...)

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