LAST COMISKEY (Part Three) - Story of the 1990 White Sox and the Final Season at Comiskey Park

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Last Comiskey

Last Comiskey

Күн бұрын

Last of a three-part baseball series telling the story of the 1990 White Sox and the final season played at Comiskey Park, featuring interviews with players, media, vendors, security, and more, and features home video of the old ballpark and its many nooks, crannies and characters.
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Featuring:
Organist:
Nancy Faust
Players:
Ozzie Guillen
Jack McDowell
Ron Kittle
Donn Pall
Dave Gallagher
Vance Law
Phil Bradley
Bobby Thigpen
Lance Johnson
Scott Radinsky
Wayne Edwards
Greg Hibbard
Executive:
Dan Evans
Scoreboard Crew:
David Marran
Media:
Tom Shaer
Kenny McReynolds
Chuck Garfien
Rich King
Cheryl Raye Stout
Mark Curnutte
Nick Murawski
Vendors:
Lloyd Rutzky
Mark Reiner
David Rugendorf
Security/Ushers:
John Brudnak
Matt Biscan
Historians:
Mark Liptak
Frank Budreck
Architect:
Brian Powers (Bandbox Ballparks)
Lifelong Sox Fans:
Robert Gordon
Stephanie Walters
Peter Wilt
Greg Novak
Doug Peterson

Пікірлер: 182
@lastcomiskey1990
@lastcomiskey1990 Жыл бұрын
Thank you everybody for the incredibly kind comments about our documentary. Also, a lot of fun to read your memories of Comiskey Park. On May 13 in Hyde Park, we will be hosting a live (abbreviated) screening followed by a Q&A with special guests Nancy Faust, Donn Pall, Wayne Edwards and others. See the following link for details -- hope to see some of you there. LINK: www.eventbrite.com/e/last-comiskey-a-white-sox-movie-screening-with-special-guests-tickets-586402364257
@derick-smith
@derick-smith Жыл бұрын
From a Braves fan born and raised in Tigers territory, this documentary is a treasure. Extremely well done and I loved every minute!
@eldiablo3794
@eldiablo3794 Жыл бұрын
It'd be cool if somebody did a cool documentary like this about old Tiger Stadium, or Fulton County stadium if you're a braves fan. It's crazy to think that the white sox and tigers have been playing in the same stadium since Comiskey and Tiger stadium.. but Atlanta on the other hand has played in 3 stadiums within the same time frame and had 2 brand new stadiums built. Fulton County Stadium, Turner Field, and Truist Park.
@tomdulle1707
@tomdulle1707 Жыл бұрын
You need to release this as a DVD. You've done an exellent job telling the story that needed to be told.
@richardszablewski1420
@richardszablewski1420 Жыл бұрын
I sure hope they do, release this on DVD
@lastcomiskey1990
@lastcomiskey1990 7 ай бұрын
You can get the DVD at www.LastComiskey.com
@xerotonin6776
@xerotonin6776 Жыл бұрын
I sorely ache for the days I could walk into the greatest old baseball cathedral in my backyard. Thank you very very much for this series. You resurrected memories of manic smiles and melancholic sighs in some of the greatest days of my life
@ZacharyWhite25
@ZacharyWhite25 Жыл бұрын
As a Rangers fan, this is my favorite classic ballpark. I wished Comiskey was preserved. This place was baseball. That’s how a ballpark should be designed- for baseball. I’ve learned so much about Comiskey Park through this documentary. Y’all deserve some award for this masterpiece! I feel the same way about the now old home of the Rangers- The Ballpark in Arlington. It’s a building, sure. But it became a part of me. While I like Globe Life Field, to me, it will never beat The Ballpark in Arlington.
@26MikeHike
@26MikeHike Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the memories, I'm 71 living in TX now. Lived in Chgo at the time and spent a lot of time at Comiskey park with friends. Loved the picnic area in left field. Michael A Brown, Frisco, TX.
@duckman23
@duckman23 Жыл бұрын
I want to thank you guys again for doing all of this and putting all this together I'm going to watch this series probably a thousand times it brings me back to my childhood so much thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. I grew up a Bridgeport kid always hanging out by the park.
@bobeder3167
@bobeder3167 Жыл бұрын
beautiful. went to my first CWS game in [old] comiskey in 1960. took our sons to their 1st WS game in 1990 - vs yankees, the no hitter - free bat day. thousands of kids banging their bats on the railings. we sat in the upper deck, 1st row, right behind 3rd base. beautiful memories of comiskey park 1990, brought back so vividly and warmly by this documentary.
@Marco-qx1db
@Marco-qx1db Жыл бұрын
Thanks to those who put this together. Brings back a lifetime of memories❤️⚾️❤️⚾️
@KingdomeBleachers
@KingdomeBleachers Жыл бұрын
This series is so beautiful. It is a stark reminder of how blue collar a baseball game used to be. I grew up going to the Kingdome, and the atmosphere was just so different. I enjoy going to the new ballpark alright, but it's definitely not the same. I really felt a lot of emotions watching this episode. Thank you for this.
@zachandporter
@zachandporter Жыл бұрын
Absolute treasure. Thank you for making this! Amazing series!!!!
@stephenkammerling9479
@stephenkammerling9479 Жыл бұрын
Ryan's start before that game in Chicago was a no hitter. I decided to go to that game(his next start) which was game 2 of a doubleheader. However, as mentioned in the video, there were numerous rain delays before and during first game, and game 2 didn't start until after 10 pm or close to that. I was tired and wanted to leave, but no way was I leaving until Ryan gave up a hit. The Sox got a hit in first or second inning and gave Nolan Ryan a rare butt kicking. Throwing inside and hitting batters was something Ryan did too often. He was good enough to succeed without that stuff(throwing inside OK, but not hitting batters). I remember him several years later brushing back hitters in an All Star game. One of those 100 MPH fastballs could have found someone's head, and control was his major weakness throughout his career. I wouldn't be shocked if Ryan is all time leader in walks and or HBP.
@gijoey5912
@gijoey5912 Жыл бұрын
And the next year (I think) was when he pummeled Ventura after he charged the mound.
@bryan2garcia
@bryan2garcia Жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this really enjoyed it
@scottwalton648
@scottwalton648 Жыл бұрын
Really amazing documentary all the way through! Thanks for bringing back those memories--went to a few games that year as an 11 yo with my Dad and Grandpa, and little brother, including that 'no-hitter'
@TomServo101
@TomServo101 Жыл бұрын
loved this entire 3 part series. Grew up in Evergreen Park. Hopefully you can make more when Reinsdorf kicks the bucket and the Sox have an owner with a spine and a sense of morals for the first time in its 100+ years.
@hoopsheavenpa
@hoopsheavenpa Жыл бұрын
Wish I could have seen a game here. What a beautifully done documentary!
@Beloit28
@Beloit28 Жыл бұрын
Excellent job!! You really did turn back time and brought me back to my youth…
@texmire
@texmire Жыл бұрын
Absolutely loved this. My father would have too. Thank you so much.
@aw0001
@aw0001 Жыл бұрын
This was so well done. I love that park. I loved hearing Andy the Clown again, the feeling of everything was just so real. That season was amazing, as a 12yo, my father had season tickets, I still have dreams wandering through every nook and cranny in that place. I miss it so much, what a treasure this video is. Thank you.
@DoubleStar92
@DoubleStar92 Жыл бұрын
Outstanding documentary!! I’m a Michigan resident and felt the powerful history because we, too, have been through it with Tiger Stadium and I’m not even a Tigers fan. This was incredible! Thank you!
@roberthunerberg1509
@roberthunerberg1509 29 күн бұрын
I was at the last night game! The fireworks after the game was spectacular!
@MrSoxfan56
@MrSoxfan56 Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for putting this together, it was so well done. It brought back so many memories I had tears in my eyes. I am the same as Rich King. I have a Sox man cave with a lot of Sox memorabilia and there are days when I do what he does, I go into that room take everything in and think back at the good times I had at Comiskey. I can actually feel the good times I had there. I like the new park , but I will never forget the old one. Thanks "Ritchie" for keeping the Sox in Chicago. I wish I could have met you to tell you how much that means to me.
@rjforz6956
@rjforz6956 Жыл бұрын
What a very well done series. Every baseball fan should watch this documentary. As a lifelong Dodger fan growing up with an iconic park, this reminds me of my childhood and all the great memories. I wish I could’ve visited there once. Much respect to the White Sox fans.
@michaelbartello4467
@michaelbartello4467 Жыл бұрын
Oh boy....there must have been something in my eye as I watched this. Thank you for producing this precious jewel. Please make a DVD available.
@adamg378
@adamg378 Жыл бұрын
This was so good I didn't want it to end. Thank you so much for doing this.
@ejaywest
@ejaywest Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the memories. 😢😊
@robjaimes8830
@robjaimes8830 Жыл бұрын
This was superb. Just superb. All three parts. ❤
@billscott356
@billscott356 Жыл бұрын
What a great series! Congratulations!!
@lastcomiskey1990
@lastcomiskey1990 Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
@zachsauceda8798
@zachsauceda8798 5 ай бұрын
Thank you. This was beautiful. Many good memories.
@lastcomiskey1990
@lastcomiskey1990 5 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching.
@irishsox1
@irishsox1 Жыл бұрын
As a Sox fan I was on board with the new stadium and there was nothing wrong with the new stadium until Camden Yard was built. Then it was like “uh oh….whom ever built the new Sox stadium looks like they forgot to turn off the cement mixer!”
@courtneyrogers7683
@courtneyrogers7683 3 ай бұрын
Nice job, everyone. That was really great
@brucei.8711
@brucei.8711 Жыл бұрын
Tremendous job! Fantastic documentary! Thanks to everyone that helped pull this fine piece history together.
@gijoey5912
@gijoey5912 Жыл бұрын
Amazing film. I still have that last game at Comiskey vs Seattle recorded on VHS somewhere.
@juanjosesanchezbracamontes
@juanjosesanchezbracamontes Жыл бұрын
Amazing job guys! I am an Indians fan and hate the CWS but this documentary made me a little fan of them. Absolutely outstanding
@wayne19563
@wayne19563 Жыл бұрын
just ....... GREATNESS ......... well done
@tammylynnbeatricedoyle4500
@tammylynnbeatricedoyle4500 6 ай бұрын
Old Comiskey was so awesome 👌 you could go to the dugout or bullpen and just hang out and chit chat with the guys! I had meaningful conversations with Don Pall 😂
@brettboggs8800
@brettboggs8800 Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@maxk9boxing
@maxk9boxing Жыл бұрын
just brilliantly done, that's all I have to say. Kudos
@robertwalker9625
@robertwalker9625 Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Streamwood, the far western suburb of Chicago. When I played in the towns' minor league I was on the Sox, but we had red uniform shirts. I was a White Sox fan since I was 8, (1959) and fathers at the game said I pitched like Early Wynn and that was who I took my delivery from watching White Sox games on WGN. We were lucky enough there had parents of kids on our little league team that were Sox fans and they would load up their station wagons with kids from our team, drive the 30+ miles to Comiskey Park to watch my hero's. After I got married I'd take my wife to the park and when she didn't want to go I had a good friend co-worker and we'd drive from Bensenville to Oak Park and take the L to the park. We moved to Florida in 1981, but on visits back to Illinois I'd always go to a game or to at Comiskey. This was a great series paying homage to the old ballpark and I enjoyed it immensely. Well done Matt Flesch and thank you for the memories of long ago.
@wayneedwards9998
@wayneedwards9998 Жыл бұрын
Awesome!❤
@TheFlyingFox14
@TheFlyingFox14 Жыл бұрын
Thanks to Good Seats Still Available for turning me on to this.
@markdaugherty6318
@markdaugherty6318 Жыл бұрын
Craig Gerbeck and Ozzie Gullien went back to back. On master No-Hitter Nolan Ryan Express. Wow unlikely guy 2 hit a home run
@bennyayala1538
@bennyayala1538 Жыл бұрын
Go sox❤❤❤
@garygray6167
@garygray6167 Жыл бұрын
@BaseballPlayer0
@BaseballPlayer0 Жыл бұрын
longest rein deley ever tht yeer vs tx
@iangaz739
@iangaz739 Жыл бұрын
Should have let Reinsdorf move to Tampa and kept Comiskey instead.
@raggraves
@raggraves Жыл бұрын
I’m an Oakland A’s fan and I have so much respect for Chicago White Sox fans and their love of this stadium, the team, and the fans of the White Sox community….. thank you for this wonderful video, bravo!
@Harp4803
@Harp4803 Жыл бұрын
I fricken hated Dave Stewart. But, I did respect him. I do miss old Comiskey
@jmccracken1963
@jmccracken1963 Жыл бұрын
@@Harp4803 He torched the White Sox again in the 1993 ALCS, as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays.
@michaelleroy9281
@michaelleroy9281 Жыл бұрын
But's it's not easy to love the Oakland ( Mausoleum) Coliseum)
@murphyotoole9014
@murphyotoole9014 9 ай бұрын
@@michaelleroy9281 I grew up in Detroit and attended a bunch of games at old Tiger Stadium, and while it was an enjoyable experience as a kid, nothing (baseball-wise) matches the years I was a season ticket holder for the A's and going to the Coliseum. Total blast (especially the day games on Wed). And while people bag on the old cement girl, it was like enjoying a ballgame at a dive bar. Totally different experience versus that of going across the bay and seeing the Giants at AT&T park (missed out on seeing a game at Candlestick which I was always curious about what that experience was like). Section 104, row 11, seat 11 . . .Will always be etched in my mind. Take care.
@karltaylor4455
@karltaylor4455 Жыл бұрын
I'm a lifelong Southside Sox fan and have been waiting for something like this. It brought tears to my eyes more than once......Ken Burns could not have done a better job.
@benjaminpayson6252
@benjaminpayson6252 Жыл бұрын
What a delight. I've never been to old Comiskey (or new!), I'm not from Chicago, and I am not a White Sox fan. But I watched all three parts of the documentary and felt camaraderie and sympathy and even nostalgia! One of the speakers hit it right on the head by saying you feel young again. Terrific.
@UrlacherBears54
@UrlacherBears54 Жыл бұрын
Never clicked a video so fast.
@edkizior
@edkizior Жыл бұрын
Same here!
@realAAron124
@realAAron124 Жыл бұрын
Wasn't alive til 95, so this history is new to me. Didn't know the last year was such a dream.
@coasterlyfemedia4413
@coasterlyfemedia4413 Жыл бұрын
I thought it was just me
@bb-gc2tx
@bb-gc2tx Жыл бұрын
@@coasterlyfemedia4413 im a met fan who stumpled upon this last week. i couldnt wait for this upload such great work done by the people who made this
@UrlacherBears54
@UrlacherBears54 Жыл бұрын
@reaaaron124 I was born in 95 as well. My dad was born and raised in Bridgeport, has been telling me stories all my life about Old Comiskey. Getting to see all those stories visualized has been special. Loved every second of this series.
@jimringomartin
@jimringomartin Жыл бұрын
This was beyond great. I cried at the end. I still have a photo of my dad and his brother 1932 playing baseball in front of their house which was where 3rd base is now., with the unpainted park in the background. I also still have about a dozen prints of an awesome panoramic shot taken on the last day which Rob Gallas gave me. It list all the players on the team, taken by Michael Lawton American Pangraphics. I still miss the old park. But not the horse trough urinals.
@BaseballPlayer0
@BaseballPlayer0 Жыл бұрын
you lived where gurnteed rte field currently is
@chris_stoller18
@chris_stoller18 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful documentary!! I absolutely loved every second of each of the 3 parts. Thank You for the memories.
@monexpo86
@monexpo86 Жыл бұрын
I have to admit by the end of this i was balling my eyes out.. So many fond memories of the old park . Thanks for doing this
@SportsKnowItAll11
@SportsKnowItAll11 Жыл бұрын
Wow! As a Brewers fan, I tip my cap to everyone involved in this project of love of this ballpark and of baseball. And to you, Nancy: God Bless you richly. Thank you for sharing your heart with everyone who heard you. 😊
@stevieg314
@stevieg314 Жыл бұрын
I still remember my dads exact route to the old ballpark- harlem north to I 55 north, to Ashland ave south, to 39th st east, to northbound Normal ave. Park on the street there, walk to the ballpark. it was heaven.
@intmailmc
@intmailmc Жыл бұрын
Great job with this series guys. I was 18 in 1990 and remember being at the game against the A's where we held a 4-1 lead in the 8th and ended up losing 5-4 late in the year. Too bad there was no wild card that year this team could've definitely won it all!
@Soxcessful
@Soxcessful Жыл бұрын
Thank you! It was a special place and 90 was a special team. Great memories!
@wiedep
@wiedep Жыл бұрын
August 12, because of off-and-on rain that day game was not played. Gates opened up, Nancy played on and on, players hung around but it was not called till about 6:30p. - six hour rain delay.
@ronvojik40
@ronvojik40 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful documentary! I was only 9 when it was gone but I remember having a dog with my Grandpa and Dad in the left field picnic area! Nothing beat that memory!
@calliopivogiatzis2235
@calliopivogiatzis2235 Жыл бұрын
Richie Allen was one of the best White Sox players ever!
@stevieg314
@stevieg314 Жыл бұрын
my all time favorite ball player.
@jmccracken1963
@jmccracken1963 Жыл бұрын
You mean Dick Allen, don't you? He insisted on NOT being called "Richie" when he was with the White Sox.
@CosmoG.Spacely
@CosmoG.Spacely Жыл бұрын
Yep. And I've also loved the way White Sox fans treated Dick well and with respect. Very cool stuff.
@CosmoG.Spacely
@CosmoG.Spacely Жыл бұрын
I have a soft spot for Carlos May, but Dick Allen is a very close number two. 🙂
@jmccracken1963
@jmccracken1963 Жыл бұрын
@@CosmoG.Spacely What about Walter "No Neck" Williams? Very good hitter as well as very good outfielder, in the spacious expanses of Comiskey Park's outfield.
@bigpossum5482
@bigpossum5482 Жыл бұрын
Yes, thank you for this. I watched this in my comiskey park seat , with my southside hit men cushion. I remember going to the last game with my family and people breaking the wooden seats for souvenirs. Glad the sox won. Have the ticket stub and the box score i cut out of the sun times to this day. Along with the the page i ripped out out the phone book from comiskey , of bill veecks home #. God bless you guys. P.S. If you ever decide to do more on this subject, please reach out. I have alot of photos.
@williamplizga1624
@williamplizga1624 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this it's the best sports documentary I think I've ever seen
@Finnegan6674
@Finnegan6674 Жыл бұрын
What a great series. My seats were up 4 rows from the walkway that ringed the lower deck and if there was a man on 1st they would show us on tv with the camera from 3rd when showing the runner on 1st. In this they never really showed that angle but I was hoping that I would be in this LOL :) Great job guys.
@richardszablewski1420
@richardszablewski1420 Жыл бұрын
This is a must watch for Chicago White Sox fans, and baseball fans in general.
@brianathern9154
@brianathern9154 Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for bringing back so many cherished memories of ball games with our Dad and Mom. They're smiling from above and giving you high fives
@lemmiwinks09
@lemmiwinks09 Жыл бұрын
This was fantastic, thank you so much!!! I wonder if Reinsdorf privately thinks the Sox should have never left Comiskey? So much history!
@Zelle035
@Zelle035 Жыл бұрын
I’m sad this is ending!!! Thank you so much for an incredible documentary. It’s only right that you make a documentary about the new Comisky/US Cellular/ guaranteed rate.
@Joseph-wp7ru
@Joseph-wp7ru Жыл бұрын
Thank you to everyone involved in making this fantastic series. I still have in my bedroom drawer, a foul ball Carlos May hit in the very early 70s , that my Dad caught at a home game at Comiskey when I was 12. Thank you all so much !
@robprice5655
@robprice5655 Жыл бұрын
I would have loved to rip a double down the line at Comiskey
@donnkoepnick4789
@donnkoepnick4789 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for doing this documentary . It brought back many great memories of my trips to Comiskey Park
@jameyschwartz5141
@jameyschwartz5141 7 ай бұрын
This was just wonderful. I lost my dad last year with whom i grew up in that old park. in 1990 i graduated high school and soon after remember seeing the ruins for the new park. You just made a middle aged man cry and i cant thank you enough.
@lastcomiskey1990
@lastcomiskey1990 7 ай бұрын
That makes my day, truly. Thank you for the kind words. Glad it brought back memories with your dad -- like baseball does for so many of us.
@monexpo86
@monexpo86 Жыл бұрын
When I was a kid we would go to games and my parents would let us wonder the park , go all over .Behind the scoreboard , down by picnic area , we went all over the place . Only thing was we had to be back by middle of 7th to hear Harry sing
@rickhunt3586
@rickhunt3586 5 ай бұрын
I remember etching my name in the wall there as a kid in ‘87, thinking it would be there forever. I spent so many summer days there. Comiskey Park will always have a special place in my heart.
@shawnryan1793
@shawnryan1793 Жыл бұрын
Sitting on my desk in a case is a ball that a member of the Baltimore Orioles hit into the left field upper deck in foul territory at old Comiskey in 1987. There is still that lime green paint smudged from where it impacted those old wooden seats. Although I don’t remember the player who hit it…or the exact details of the games, I remember my father taking me to those games in the 80s and feeling so in awe of old Comiskey. The smell of the food, the wet cement concourse and of course, my first experience with trough style bathrooms. I remember my dad enjoying beers shirtless while I wore my glove hoping to catch a pop-up or a fly ball. He let me try the speed pitch and bought me hot dogs and cotton candy. I don’t cherish the gameplay while we attended, I cherish the memories of that place more than anything. Thank you for these videos. They bring it all back and make me realize how great times were back then.
@TB-gp7kx
@TB-gp7kx Жыл бұрын
The seating capacity was 43,000 in 1990, but it looks like it held well over 50,000. Why is that?
@patrickgrisley
@patrickgrisley Жыл бұрын
Lifelong Reds fan here, who lived in Chicago 2004-2009. Went to countless games at the new one, but would have given my right arm to have seen the old Comiskey. I'll never forget 2005. Great fans and a great ball club. My AL team for life! Amazing documentary as well. Very, very well done👏
@bandboxballparks7081
@bandboxballparks7081 Жыл бұрын
Terrific series. Glad to contribute to this documentary.
@brianb.5473
@brianb.5473 Жыл бұрын
From a Reds fan. This is just amazing. All 3 parts. Loved that the Sox destroyed Cocky Stewart. He said the same garbage about the 90 What a great ballpark Cominskey was. Thanks so much for this great film.
@ernestconnell8087
@ernestconnell8087 Жыл бұрын
Went to the game that Bobby Thigpen got his 50th save.
@ChrisCacciatore-yq3yl
@ChrisCacciatore-yq3yl Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@catholicmarathoner7435
@catholicmarathoner7435 Жыл бұрын
Loved this park, meant the world to me. Lots of memories! Thank you for this documentary!!
@brianmornar4778
@brianmornar4778 Жыл бұрын
Re; Donn Pall talking to the fans at the 13:00 mark. It's true. It was in 1989 (maybe 90?) that my friend's dad drove us to the park on a Sunday. We were from Tinley Park. This was still the time when the parents would just release the kids to wander around wherever (we were about 11 or 12), and me and my friend ended up in the picnic area under the left fiend stands, watching the players warm up before the game through the wired grate. Then, this tall guy in a uniform walks up to us on the left field warning track seemingly out of nowhere. It was Donn Pall. He crouches down and talks to us through the grate for 20 minutes, asking where we were from, how we liked school, what position we played in little league. I'll always remember how genuine and generous he was, just like an older brother. I'll always have a soft spot for Donn Pall. Funny, a couple years later when I'd become a rebellious punk, I idolized Scott Radinsky, the hard-core punk singer (from Ten Foot Pole), who united my interests in punk music and baseball. (Funny again, years later, while in grad school in Buffalo, NY, I went to AAA Indians/Guardians games, where Radinsky was pitching coach and I would try to explain to my friends that he was a California punk.) But so many years later, it's Donn Pall who I remember most from that era.
@lastcomiskey1990
@lastcomiskey1990 Жыл бұрын
Great story thanks for sharing.
@mom2peaches
@mom2peaches Жыл бұрын
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 THANK YOU!!
@dbh127
@dbh127 Жыл бұрын
This was fantastic. Takes me back to being a little kid and going to games in the late 80s. The smell the green grass and the sound of Nancy on that organ were so special.
@eldiablo3794
@eldiablo3794 Жыл бұрын
Man, the homeruns at old Comiskey looked so majestic. Especially 5:02 the footage of "the little hurt" Craig Grebeck hitting a 3 run shot off of Nolan Ryan. I haven't looked up the dimensions, but just looking at center field in the video I can understand why they called it a pitchers park.
@ecardullo10
@ecardullo10 Жыл бұрын
What a great documentary! I've always loved Ozzie Guillen and listening to Nancy, the Great Dame of Comiskey on the organ. Wish they could have saved it the way Fenway was saved.
@savvycha
@savvycha Жыл бұрын
All I can say is, Thank God Wrigley still stands... I remember going to a Sox opening day game in 1978 and another game or two w my South Sider ex. Then in 1991 I went to the new park as a guest of Ameritech. We parked close to the old ballpark, which was kind of halfway torn down. I took a few photos I still have. That it was in tatters next to the new park felt wrong to me then and it still does. I did not enjoy my day in the new park at all. The seats were way too far away from the game. Spoiled rotten forever by Chicago's legacy baseball parks. Thanks again for making this awesome tribute to what was, and what remains, the home of the White Sox for so many of us. If this were Wrigley. I could not watch. It has its own special feel that has been compromised, but at least it still stands. Thank again. You captured it all.🌠
@mikehurtuk2848
@mikehurtuk2848 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for making this, I take my kids to new Comiskey and I hope they have the memories I did of old Comiskey park with my dad.
@Etbuc
@Etbuc 2 ай бұрын
What a great documentary! Thank you so much! Although I'm a life-long Braves fan in Tennessee, I always enjoyed following the Sox on WGN.
@michaeljc
@michaeljc 10 ай бұрын
Loved this documentary! Brings back tons of great memories from the Southside. My first MLB game ever was at Comiskey-1968 vs the Angels. ( I was at Game 2 of the ALCS against them in 2005, too!) My last Comiskey game was 9/15/90- ChiSox vs BoSox. I still have a chunk of the wall I pulled off from the Picnic area. (Park was really in bad shape, then) I went to HS down the street at DeLaSalle. We used to all cheer in the classroom if we heard the scoreboard go off, lol. Miss those days! Making new memories now with my daughter and grandkids at the new Sox park! Thanks for this!
@jhundrie
@jhundrie Жыл бұрын
Just amazing work and thank you for this gift to all Sox fans!
@frankiemae1302
@frankiemae1302 Жыл бұрын
Walking up from the concourse at a night game as a kid, was like a dream! The lights, green grass, scoreboard etc. Kind of what you'd imagine Heaven being like as a kid. The "new" park doesn't offer it. The concourse you can see the field just walking around.
@chuckgray9058
@chuckgray9058 Жыл бұрын
Very nice job. 👌 I grew up in Kansas City, and lived and died with the Royals. I remember seeing TV games from Chicago, and couldn't understand why the infield looked blue as opposed to the outfield grass when seen on TV. Turns out the answer was the infield had artificial turf from previous ownership. Bill Veeck, when he re-purchased the Sox, had the plastic removed and restored the field to all-natural grass. Colorful character he was, and I guess one thing he had done was a shower for fans in the outfield bleachers. Also he was dressed in Revolutionary War clothes to replicate a famous painting, hobbling out to the mound with 2 others to present the colors for the national anthem. I'll bet you miss him as much as that ballpark. Economics of the game were his demise, but it was a joy to see him carrying on with those crazy stunts.
@Josh-pc8vp
@Josh-pc8vp 4 ай бұрын
Compliments to the filmmaker on this documentary. I never visited old Comiskey but this really gave a great insight to a classic ballpark.
@CosmoG.Spacely
@CosmoG.Spacely Жыл бұрын
Funny, somebody started cutting onions during the last fifteen minutes of me watching Part III. Let's gooooo youuuuuu WHITE SOX!
@angelomaurizio1668
@angelomaurizio1668 Жыл бұрын
I don't get, if Wrigley was renovated why couldn't Comiskey? Just imagine having two baseball cathedrals in one city...
@engineerguyse
@engineerguyse Жыл бұрын
Too bad they ouldn't have shown a scene from the movie: ONLY THE LONELY with John Candy having a picnic with Ally Sheedy at 2nd Base Great scene!
@duckman23
@duckman23 Жыл бұрын
I'm 46 years old and I'm crying watching this I from Bridgeport and I miss that ballpark big time I still call this whatever they call it I still call it Comiskey Park I'll never change the name never
@jasonfleigel6807
@jasonfleigel6807 Жыл бұрын
This was an outstanding documentary, you did a wonderful job putting this all together. Kudos to everyone involved for helping to bring back memories of the ol ballpark.
@GeoAce777
@GeoAce777 4 ай бұрын
Bill Gleason's commentary was the BEST part about Part 3 😏
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