Jack Buck and Lindsey Nelson call a simulated game in 1982 between some of baseball's greatest players. This is a record album synced to video.

The Greatest Baseball Game Never Played was a 1982 simulated broadcast of a hypothetical baseball game between all-time Major League Baseball greats. The broadcast was aired on 200 radio stations in the United States and Canada and also released as a record album.

It was announced by Jack Buck and Lindsey Nelson and set in Philadelphia's Shibe Park. Following the format of the All-Star Game, it featured National League players against players from the American League.

The Greatest Game Never Played documents the perception of who the greatest players were seventeen years before the selection of the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. All of the players in both starting lineups made the All-Century team except for American League shortstop Phil Rizzuto, as the 1980s saw the emergence of several all-time great shortstops: Cal Ripken Jr., Ozzie Smith, and Robin Yount.

This is a fan edit, set to video, with added appearances by Marty Brennaman, Jack Brickhouse, Harry Caray, Joe Nuxhall, Vin Scully, Jon Miller, Ken Griffey Jr., Rod Serling and Chip Caray.

Some of the original audio was removed to keep from spoiling the outcome. There is an explanation about this game and interviews with a couple of the people involved in creating it that was originally toward the beginning but was moved to the end because I didn't think many people would stick around through 4 minutes of mostly text.


AL Starters (Casey Stengel, Mgr.)
Phil Rizzuto (SS)
Ty Cobb (CF)
Ted Williams (LF)
Babe Ruth (RF)
Lou Gehrig (1B)
Rod Carew (2B)
Brooks Robinson (3B)
Yogi Berra (C)
Whitey Ford (P)

NL Starters (John McGraw, Mgr.)
Pete Rose (1B)
Mike Schmidt (3B)
Stan Musial (RF)
Hank Aaron (LF)
Willie Mays (CF)
Rogers Hornsby (2B)
Honus Wagner (SS)
Roy Campanella (C)
Sandy Koufax (P)

AL Reserves:
Joe DiMaggio
Tris Speaker
Mickey Mantle
Reggie Jackson
Carl Yastrzemski
Jimmy Foxx
Dick Sisler
Eddie Collins
Charlie Gehringer
George Brett
Joe Cronin
Luis Aparicio
Mickey Cochrane
Bill Dickey
Lefty Grove
Bob Feller
Walter Johnson
Cy Young
Jim Palmer
Rollie Fingers
Gaylord Perry

NL Reserves:
Mel Ott
Roberto Clemente
Lou Brock
Frank Robinson
Bill Terry
Johnny Mize
Frank Frisch
Jackie Robinson
Pie Traynor
Eddie Matthews
Ernie Banks
Pee Wee Reese
Gabby Hartnett
Johnny Bench
Grover Alexander
Warren Spahn
Bob Gibson
Carl Hubbel
Christy Mathewson
Tom Seaver
Steve Carlton

0:00 - Intro (Marty Brennaman)
0:14 - Intro - Ernie Harwell (From History of Baseball, 1994)
3:16 - Intro - Twilight Zone of Dreams
4:16 - Record Album Begins
4:43 - Lineups, Reserves and Managers
6:56 - Shibe Park
7:37 - Play Ball!
11:44 - 2nd Inning
14:54 - 3rd Inning
19:28 - 4th - Top 6th Inning
19:43 - 6th Inning (Bottom)
22:24 - 7th Inning
28:08 - 8th Inning
36:15 - 9th Inning and Beyond
39:45 - Wrap Up, Box Scores Etc.
43:54 - Good Nights and Jack Buck Tribute
45:50 - Joe Nuxhall 'rounding third and heading for home...'

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