The embedding was disabled on this video, but that’s okay because it’s worth watching the full-size version. It’s a fantastic, full-length promotional video for the Pacific Coast League in 1946.
Internet Christmas For Baseball Nerds, Part XX
It contains an introduction by league president Clarence H. “Pants” Rowland and some of the only known color footage still in existence showing each of the teams in the league working out at their spring training camps.
Pants Rowland. Previous Internet Christmases:
I: 1930 Spalding Base Ball Guide
II: Negro Leagues Database
III: Bob Gibson video
IV: John McGraw's Scientific Baseball
V: NBC Archive, featuring Bud Selig
VI: 1888's Base-ball: How to Become a Player
VII: Connie Mack's How To Play Base-Ball
VIII: Life Magazine's greatest baseball photos
IX: Branch Rickey's scouting report on Don Drysdale
X: 100,000+ crowd for White Autos game
XI: Thomas Edison baseball video
XII: Babe Ruth in Just Pals
XIII: Stories of the Base Ball Field
XIV: Babe Ruth swing analysis
XV: Bob Feller mechanical analysis
XVI: Vin Scully calling Hank Aaron's 715th home run
XVII: 1934 Tigers/Yankees Radio Broadcast
XIX: Bob Feller's fastball racing a motorcycle
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