Watched a World Series game from 1973 recently

[Auggie]

Game 1, Oakland versus New York Mets

Willie Mays and Reggie Jackson, on the same field! Yogi Berra in the dugout, smoking a cigarette! The Oakland Coliseum, when it was still young.

But what I really, really loved was the simplicity of the broadcast.

Curt Gowdy and Monte Moore called the game. Great work. Pure baseball for real baseball fans, no human interest crap.

Additionally, there was no flag waving. No military. No sanctimony. The camera work, graphics, and replay may look primitive by today's standards, but it was enough to tell the story. The NBC crew didn't miss a beat either.

I wish we could revert to this simpler way of televising baseball. It's so much better.

A's won, 2-1. Rollie Fingers pitched nearly 4 innings in relief!