This is Red Barber with Mel Allen at Yankee Stadium in New York,

greeting you for the Gillette Safety Razor Company

as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees

get set for the opening game of the 1949 World Series.

This is the 11th consecutive year

that baseball's championship classic is being aired throughout the world

by way on Gillette microphones.

Yes, and because so many sports fans are also Gillette fans,

we broadcast and telecast, major boxing, racing, and football events

as they occur throughout the calendar.

So folks, remember, for the tops in sports,

tune in Gillette's cavalcade of sports the year round.

The first question that you want to know is about the weather, and the weather is fine.

It scared everybody in New York to death this morning.

When when dawn came, it came through gray clouds and it was raining.

But the rain stopped about 8.30 to 9 o'clock.

The outfield is going to be a little bit treacherous for any outfielder who has to cut sharply one way or the other.

The infield, which of course was covered, is in perfect condition.

Now the second question that you'd like to know, the starting pitcher for the Dodgers.

Bert Chatton did not announce him until his pre-game clubhouse meeting.

He is Big Don Newcomb, 6-5, 230 pounds, finishing his rookie year. In fact, he was not even with the

Dodgers the first month of the pennant campaign, came on to win 17 ball games. The starting pitcher

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