What's On TV This Afternoon (1973)?

I wish this was the complete NBC broadcast with the commercials, but how ungrateful could a nostalgic A's fan get? The Internet Is Amazing™, and here's Game 7 of the 1973 World Series, telecast starting at 3 Central Sunday afternoon, Oct. 21, 1973:

Here's your boy, YouTube user "Classic Baseball on the Radio," if you want to sync up the Mets' radio to the video:

Here are some baseball-y ads from Sports Illustrated this year on which I might comment:

And here are the World Series rosters for Oakland and New York--as pictured with the Mike Andrews Sporting News in our kitchen--and I definitely plan to comment on all of this stuff:

Go, A's!

The Freakin' Weekend (1970)

OK, look, the new NFL season is drawing very near ...

And college football is ready to roll ...

And baseball is approaching its playoffs ...

And Wes Parker is on tonight 1970's Brady Bunch ...

And Dan Issel is in town ...

But the big deal this freakin' weekend for Hoptown 1970 me is that the new TV Guide has the 411 on the very, very promising slate of new shows for the fall season:

-- The Don Knotts Show, NBC Sept. 15 debut;
-- Four-In-One, NBC, Sept. 16 debut;
-- Storefront Lawyers, CBS, Sept. 16 debut;
-- The Flip Wilson Show, NBC, Sept. 17 debut;
-- Nancy, NBC, Sept. 17 debut;
-- Headmaster, CBS, Sept. 18 debut;
-- Arnie, CBS, Sept. 19 debut;
-- The Mary Tyler Moore Show, CBS, Sept. 19 debut;
-- The Young Rebels, ABC, Sept. 20 debut;
-- The Tim Conway Show, CBS, Sept. 20 debut;
-- NFL Monday Night Football, ABC, Sept. 21 debut;
-- The Young Lawyers, ABC, Sept. 21 debut;
-- The Silent Force, ABC, Sept. 21 debut;
-- Dan August, ABC, Sept. 23 debut;
-- Make Room for Granddaddy, ABC, Sept. 23 debut;
-- The Odd Couple, ABC, Sept. 24 debut;
-- Matt Lincoln, ABC, Sept. 24 debut;
-- Barefoot in the Park, ABC, Sept. 24 debut;
-- The Immortal, CBS, Sept. 24 debut;
-- The Partridge Family, ABC, Sept. 25 debut, and
-- The Most Deadly Game, ABC, Oct. 10 debut.

ABC looks especially strong!