Chicago White Sox: A Visual History, Hosted by Jean Shepherd - VHS 1987

[@DemocracyJA]

This is gold for a millennial like me who missed out on the Sox golden years. 05 and the Blackout games have been historic as well.

[@Eddie_Schantz]

I got to see one game in the old Comiskey Park in the early 1990's although I don't recall the exact year but it was in May. They played the Blue Jays and I don't remember who won but I remember Fred McGriff hitting a homerun into the right field seats late in the game. It was a great experience.

[@JD-xt8cj]

I went a few times in the early 1980s, as a kid. One time a neighbor dad took a bunch of us, and we got Ricky Henderson's autograph after the game

[@Andrew-ci9xv]

My Grandfather was bird hunting and baseball friend with Dizzy Trout . Dizzy Trout (Detroit tigers ) & son of White Sox and cubs pitcher Steve trout . My grandfather rode around with Dizzy in the White Sox promotional station wagon . Dizzy worked for the promotional department . I’ve got pictures. My grandfather was Lester Russell , a St. Louis cardinals pitching prospect

[@dennismedbourn527]

My favorite all-time Chicago White Sox team was the 1977 Southside Hitmen

[@charlessmith263]

I had to do some delving on the first use of Sox's stadium pyrotechnics - the famous "Exploding Scoreboard". And I found something I never knew when I was born. 10 years before I was born in 1970, the first fireworks were used at Comiskey. Generally they were used to celebrate Sox home runs, but in a few cases, fireworks were used for some major non-home-run milestones. For example, the Apollo 11 moon landing in the 1960s. When word got out that the landing was successful, during a Sox game in the daytime, during one of the inning breaks (bottom of the 7th), an accordion band (Nancy Faust was not there at that time) played 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game" in a Dixieland style jazz groove, and after they finished playing, several puffs of smoke and flashes "boomed" in the air over the scoreboard across an afternoon blue sky (yep, aerial bomb fireworks), immediately followed by a Banshee-like "breathing air noise". Also--in the 1960s exploding scoreboard master controls, lever switches and push-button switches were used not just for the firework shoots, but things like sound effects and maybe even pre-recorded music too.

[@Mr.E723]

I’m here tonight in great sadness, as the White Sox have just tied the record for most loses in a single season. But through all the ups and downs, my loyalty will never change. Jean, I know you’re looking down on us now and sharing our sorrow. I just want to tell you, I’m still ready to charge up that hill and take that pillbox with you buddy. Jerry Reinsdorf, while currently still with us, I just want you to know, I will be happy to dance on your grave when your time comes.

[@charlessmith263]

The Sox's post game firework shows in the 1960s/1970s at Comiskey focused on much less of the electronic firing systems and the fireworks were mainly manually lit. The displays in the first years lasted up to 15 minutes to probably 20 or so. Manual firing of fireworks were done in the actual ballfield with racks scattered about the field, and not at the back of the stadium like they now do at Guaranteed Rate, where electronic firing is used now. There was a lot of dead time between explosions (usually, they would do that "one shell shot at a time" thing - the pyrotechnicians would shoot the lift charge of the shell, wait for that shell to detonate in the air, and then, immediately light up another shell, let that go into the air, wait for the boom, and then start all over again), static displays, and the grand finale cake firings. Old-time stuff such as a 1,000-firecracker ground display (especially in the 1970s/1980s) kept the crowd in suspense up to the final bang of the finale. The smell of sulfur would be present after the old-time pyro shows were over.

[@thomasfoley1699]

Thanks, JD. So appreciate this. TF

[@chicagolandnation635]

White Sox forever Go Sox 2021

[@jonnydanger7181]

Great story! ⚾️

[@mitchw4802]

My 2nd cousin 3x removed is Urban "Red" Faber!

[@TheBatugan77]

So was Faber an Urban legend?

[@mariocisneros911]

This came out in the mid 1980's after the Christmas story movie

[@ReyGutierrez-h6r]

I need that VHS

[@ginathegreat3858]

And then they tore that ballpark down.

[@coralsnake8777]

just decided to look up the history of the Chi White Sox

[@sandy3482]

amazingly neither the Chicago White Sox or the Chicago Cubs won a world series from 1918 to 2004, that's 86 years and 172 chances, now that is a record no city will ever beat

[@fenderjazzbrian]

2005

[@johnlester3385]

The Sox traded Bullfrog, for four eyes Shottenhoffen!

[@mistervacation23]

What the hell did you trade Jay Buhner for?

[@MGAF688]

Buhner never was a part of the White Sox organization. He was a Pirates draft pick, quickly swapped to the Yankees, and ended up on the Mariners. That's it.

[@TheBatugan77]

The Yankees dumped Buhner for Ken Phelps! 😮😡😠😲😩😫

[@mistervacation23]

@@TheBatugan77 they kept saying Ken Phelps bat, Ken Phelps bat

[@jamescampione8531]

Babe had hang over when they beat him 12to4 lol

[@JosePerez-vz1qq]

"Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man."

[@PatrickMichalski]

im a lifelong sox fan transplanted from chicago to colorado and the way reinsdorf has not helped the teammakes me eomder why we cant axe the owner but i amwilling to let them go if yhey are going to continue to suck

[@elegantNess]

43:45

[@TheBatugan77]

69:69

[@jintsfan]

King of England ? Such ignorance.

[@MGAF688]

The White Sox had almost nothing to note from 1920-1992. One AL pennant in 1959 and one Western Division title in 1983. That's even less than the Cubs accomplished. The Cubs had 5 WS appearances and a couple of division titles between 1920-1992. I think it is fair to say that over this 73-season period, there was no franchise less-accomplished than the White Sox.

[@mariocisneros911]

Well they could have gone to 2- 3 more World Series between 51-67 , but had to come in 2nd to the mighty New York Yankees with Mickey Mantle. And than 2nd to the 71-75 Oakland A's with Reggie Jackson, Rollie Fingers and Vida Blue.

[@patrickcolon8809]

I think that it's fair to say that the Cubs went 71 years without a Pennant, and 108 years without winning a World Series ...... don't throw stones if you live in a glass house.

[@watsonroadster3707]

Go back to Wrigley...

[@TheBatugan77]

​@@watsonroadster3707 A little touchy about your Pale Ho's? 😊😅😂🤓🤠😆