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  • Nancy playing Cheers for a Boston game awesome

  • Nice vid of the old ballpark. As an architect, I hope I can design something like this.

    As for thosee 1987-90 White Sox uniforms, I hated them. Why would they put a letter "C" instead of the traditional "SOX"? In my opinion, it made them look like the losers on the other side of town.

  • That was a pretty descent lineup that night for the Sox: two future 500-HR club members in Sosa and Thomas, Carlton Fisk towards the end of his HOF career, Ivan Calderon and Lance Johnson when they were budding superstars and of course Robin Ventura. Interesting clip, made me feel as if I was at old Comiskey Park, something I was never able to do. Thanks!

  • so awesome. love to see the old place. wish they would have kept it :(

  • Hey u not need worry about Missin the smell of onions n hotdogs cookin beer and smell of urine in air just go to wrigley field now....U get that same ole feelin there and team still stinks in it....If cubs got them a new stadium replace it then Cubs would win a world series!

  • This is so incredible. Thank you so much for filming this.

  • Thanks for the feedback, Ski....I also love that panorama shot with Nancy's organ playing and the hot dog vendor soundtrack - very old school!

  • Thank you for posting these, the quality and sound are just super, you captured everything wonderfully.

    Fireworks for Ivan Calderon! He threw me a ball during BP in the TwinkDome in 1989. R.I.P.

  • from everything i've read Comiskey was an asshole so fuck him.

  • OK WAS THE LAST SOX PLAYER TO HIT A HOME RUN AT COMISKEY!!??

  • MY FIRST BALL GAMES WAS AT COMISKEY. MY LAST GAME IN CHICAGO WAS THE FINAL OPENNING DAY AT THE PARK

  • i think comisky park and EVERYTHING comisky including this ugly park is a disgrace to the great honer, honesty, and integrity to baseball. the only dark spot in baseball in a hundred years was the black sox scandal. it was a great day when the only blemish in baseballs proud history was finally torn down. now baseball can be truly a fair and honest game. thank you comnm. landis

  • @romancitoG How bout them Cubbies?

  • @romancitoG What about the steroid era which! Nothing beats the old picnic area.

  • @romancitoG

    Yeah because Sammy using steroids was a real integrity builder for the game right?

  • @romancitoG Shove it up your ass pal. Comiskey Park was baseball. Not getting to see the great old park is one of the greatest regrets of my life.

  • i remember seeing some games in the early 60's as a young kid, my dad was a huge sox fan. saw mickey mantle back when they played two. sox won both. saw dick allen, wilbur wood, tommy john. had a seat behind a pole. there always seemed to be a drunk nearby to provide the entertainment. built in 1910 it was state of the art, can you imagine seeing babe ruth, the black sox, etc? i felt bad to see it go.

    200 million of public money to a private owner? nothing less than extortion. 

  • OMG!!!!! This is the best thing i have EVER SEEN ON youtube...THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES. Nothing can ever replace the memories of old comiskey park. thank you for taking the time to do these videos 20 years ago

  • @MartyMcFly700 You're welcome......my personal keepsake becomes every Sox fan's keepsake!

  • @brokertothestars By the way...is this your actual video that you took with your wife...or is this a video that you uploaded from a video given to you? I am just curious...either way it is phenomenal. It would be awesome if that is you in the video. You did a magnificent job of going to all of the different areas of the ballpark...including the shot towards the sears tower over armour park.

  • @MartyMcFly700 That is me in the video, along with my smoking hot wife! Having spent many days and nights in the outfield stands and bleachers, I wanted to make sure to capture the different vistas from those areas. The catwalk between left and center field is where the shot of Armour Park was taken. Thanks again for taking the time to visit and comment!

  • I met my wife at Comiskey in 1974. Dick Allen hit a line drive HR that hit the centerfield wall.

    I saw the AL finally beat the NL in 1983 and the biggest cheer for Rookie of the Year, Ron Kittle.

  • did you get a baseball?

  • These videos are truly amazing. I cannot add anything that anyone else hasn't already said. The sights, the smells, Andy the Clown, Harry in the bleachers, Bill Veeck, the collared unis, the food, the Andy Frain people back in the days with the old caps, twilight double-headers, me with my ballglove, and, most of all, the memories of wonderful time spent with my since departed father are awakened. Of the millions of videos on YouTube, these 3 are the most meaningful to me.

  • @stevensinger Thanks for your kind words. It means a lot to me that these videos have a way of striking chords with so many people. I too remember the times spent at Comiskey with my Dad.....

  • This video is truly amazing and awesome. By coincidence, this game happened to be the last game I attended at the old ballpark. Thank you for providing such amazing memories by posting this.

  • @67bobbyg Thanks for your feedback!  What started out as a personal keepsake has really touched a nerve with old time Sox fans like us....

  • amazing; they still had white employees.

  • Of course, I remember old Comiskey Park every time I use the train towards downtown. Memorable parts were the 8 light standards, and of course, the pyrotechnics-spewing center field scoreboard. Yes, the exploding scoreboard. The same "scoreboard and fireworks" concept realized by Bill Veeck had been transferred to U.S. Cellular field..but without the chessy hoots and hollers of yesteryear. And the spire patterns that marked the white part of the park's exterior was memorable, too.

  • Anyone who did not see a game at Old Comiskey park This is like being there. Les and his wife have put together a Classic I was there that night so this is like being in a time machine The sights and sounds of Comiskey park are right here

  • i grew up in this place. what a ballpark.

  • Thanks for the good times

  • Sunday, May 1, 1977, Comiskey Park I, that was my first white sox game. It was 40 degress, and they still had the old score board before it was flipped in '83. The White Sox drove in 8, and the was the first time I "heard" the scoreboard crank up and shoot the fireworks. I thought an earthquake was coming! And then 28 years later the earthquake arrived and we were the World Champs! LET'S GO WHITE-SOX!

  • My first time ever in Comiskey, visiting from Detroit, the Sox were warming up...in shorts.I thought it was a sandlot team playing before the real ball players took the field. They played in shorts in the game. Weird lookin'. Veech was at it again...I almost expected to see a midget pinch hit.

  • Miss those old ballparks not standing anymore.

  • This is priceless footage.

  • I remember the first game I went to. It was a Sunday afternoon game. The Sox won and Harold Baines hit a home run. This is amazing.

  • awesome, thanks for posting. i spent most of my childhood there.

  • These videos are a GREAT way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Baseball Palace of the World! Comiskey Park: gone but NEVER forgotten.

  • Wow, seeing these videos brings back memories.. I was the Chicago White Sox batting practice pitcher during the 1987-90 years. Thanks for posting these videos and capturing the ambiance of the park. Great memories.

  • @Geotubest Thanks for the feedback!

  • Altho I'm a die hard Cub fan, I really miss Comiskey. She was trully a baseball palace and reeked of baseball. Still makes me sad she is gone. :(

  • This place and Tiger Stadium, two places they should have never torn down.

  • You did a great job on these videos...i miss that place.

  • Thank you so much for posting these wonderful videos of the Comiskey Park of my youth. I miss that Park terribly.

  • My first sox game was in 1989. They lost to seattle 5-3 at the old park. Never was able to make to back to the old park. Been to the new park about 200 times

  • I was at that game...drove 650+ miles from Birmingham, just to see the ball park before they tore it down. The drive was worth it.

  • @soydevon The game itself was meaningless, I was there to shoot some video of my last time at Comiskey, and to grab a beef sandwich!

    Sosa won't be in the HOF anytime soon....what would they display? His corked bat and a bunch of empty 'roid syringes?

  • I'm a Cub fan who did see games here and it was great (I'll let the hatin' go, because I enjoyed these vids so much). As you can see, not much on the outside by this point -- painted white with the name cheaply stenciled in green -- but the showmanship was on the inside.

    Saw Sox lose to Toronto that summer -- Fernandez vs. David Wells.

    Poignant Calderon moment; poor Ivan would meet a grim end.

    You married a sport indeed. Like how she asserts her right to a beer and some ballpark food.

  • @PeerlessPaavo I always enjoyed Wrigley too....one big tavern in the midst of several little taverns! I guess if I was a Cub fan, I'd be drinking heavy also! :>

    Will be catching the Cards/Nats game this Tuesday, maybe I'll do a 20 year video update on the wife's ballpark chow!

  • @brokertothestars You've had a few months to reflect: How'd you kids enjoy the Cards-Nats game? Of course, that would likely have been before Washington brought up Strasburg.

  • @PeerlessPaavo They won - something they've forgotten how to do lately! Just awful how they've collapsed.

    Would have been nice to see Strasburg, but our timing was off a bit. Decided to bring in carry out pizza to the park - much better quality than the cardboard w/sauce that they serve at Busch! Nobody bitched, and it didn't rain either!

  • No matter what team you cheer for there is once thing for sure, cities keep tearing down these treasures that made up so many great years of history in these baseball cites. I am still mad about Tiger Stadium. I never got a chance to go there but I know my baseball heritage. This is bullshit, now Yankee Stadium. When is this going to stop. I don't even like the Soxs or Cubs but it's gonna be a sad day in baseball when Wrigley and Fenway is gone.

  • This video is really beautiful. I was lamenting the loss of old Tiger Stadiums tonight--the footage of it a couple of years after is was shut down, a couple of years prior to it destruction, really made me sad . . . way too many great memories there--but your video perked me up. To hear the organ and the crowd noice at Comisky kind of let me imagine and reflect upon Tiger Stadium in a better light, thanks.

  • @TheGuysmily Thanks for your feedback. Personally, I can't look at the demolition photos from old stadiums......I'd rather remember them when they were alive.

  • man i wish i was able to step in old comiskey...i have a brick from the stadium though that i got when i was born.

  • thanks 4 posting. I sat by you this game... Box 54 Row K seats 1-4.

    The certificate and stub are on my wall.

  • thanks 4 posting. I sat by you this game... Box 54 Row K seats 1-4.

    The certificate and stub are on my wall.

  • with the passing of tiger and yankee stadiums only two of the gold age feilds are left standing i hope they have many great years left

  • fenway and wrigley I have no clue who the DUMBASES were that decided to tear nown Yankee Stadium, that was one place I've always wanted to see but never did...

  • It was no Golden Age park...

    But I MISS SHEA ALREADY!

    I grew up (and still am) a Mets fan living in CA, and I always dreamed of going to a Shea game someday to see my team...

    And now I never can... and the place where the Loveable Losers played, the Miracle Mets, the '86 team and Buckner's imfamous first bae line, where Piazza hit the 9/11 HR... the Beatles' stadium for their concert...

    All gone. :(

  • I was at the game the night after on September 14 and then the game the night after that on September 15. Great ballpark, great clip.

  • It's a crime that they tore this place down. One by one the old stadiums are disappearing. I cried when the first blows hit TIger stadium. Now Yankee Stadium is getting demolished. It's just not right!

  • Great Video!! It brings back a lot of memories. Like you I have many specil moments in that park. My last game in that park was against Oakland. I really dig your wife's big 1990 glasses. Makes me think I am watching Angela Bauer on "Whos The Boss".

  • @littlelouie11 Ah yes, the wife....still hot, still hates baseball...lol!

  • I miss pudge

  • I was there about 2 weeks prior to this I think. They plaed the Angels and were flirting with first place! Thigpen blew the save! That was it.

    But I really loved that stadium.

  • they should have never tore it down!

  • WOW nice, one of the last games ever at Old Comiskey

  • ah, the spray painted notifications..the grainy camera...the stirrups, the organs playing, the cheers intro...this must be the late 80's, early 90's!

  • Nice footage. You almost captured the left side of the scoreboard showing the Sox defense. Catch a quick glipse of Sosa in Right field. The amazing games this park saw. Thanks for the post.

  • This is better than any pro documentary or special in reminding and reminiscing the old park that you can buy or see on tv. Thanks for posting and sharing.

  • I must say that even though I am a Cubs fan and that I never saw a game at Old Comiskey. But,from the looks of it, It probably was a kick ass place to watch baseball. I'm going to Wrigley this weekend and watching this makes me appreciate having a great classic ballpark to watch baseball in. Comiskey had a ton of history and I wish I had a chance to watch a game there.

  • @Basssinger86 If I was a Cub fan I would have slit my wrists in '69, '84, and again in '03.....When you break it all down, the Cubs are worthless..! :>

  • Went to my first Sox game as a kid with my Grandfather and Dad in the '50's. Also my first Taxi ride. Yankees won 7-0. Mantle hit a homer right-handed and left-handed.

    The Cubs weren't even warm tea in the 50's The Sox were usually finishing second to Yanks every year and were THE ticket. As a kid, we'd walk down 35th street and hang out all day at the park for $1.50. Great place. Great memories. Great times. Thanks for the post!

  • Got, thanks for your input. It's amazing how these childhood memories stick. I still remember my first night game....all the cigarette/cigar smoke haze, the beer smell, etc....I only wish McCuddy's had still been around so I could have shot some video there....

    Cheers!

  • wtf fuck jerry reinsdorf! the sox could be still playing in this stadium...

  • sadly no way, the park was completely falling apart. From the top to the foundation, it was crumbling. It's to bad it couldn't be saved!

  • The Sox could play in that stadium, but I like them in their current home. If they were in Comiskey I, it would a dump comparable to what Wrigley is today. I don't want my team to have 100 year old crap for their stadium. I'll take the newly renovated USCF with its wide concourses, fan deck, bullpen sports bar, fundamentals deck, etc.

  • was this last game? half the seats are empty? wait... they always are, comisky park or cellular, it's always a graveyard. =/ where do they get money....

  • i just noticed now dat da new stadium has lots of statues. i havent been 2 1 in like 5 yrs.rip comiskey park and mr.comiskey!

  • Home run by Iván Calderón. RIP Ivan #22

  • (Jody Reed 5:50)My buddy worked with Jody Reed down in florida a few years ago. They both ran a baseball training facility. He said Jody was a cheap jerk!

  • what was so bad about old comiskey?? jw.

  • Ha, I never thought giant cigarette advertisements could make me nostalgic (I grew up with Tiger Stadium).

  • Fans still sing "na na hey hey goodbye" when a pitcher gets yanked but I've noticed they never sing along when a homer is hit. Nancy still plays it when homers are hit, so I don't see why the fans don't join in. I noticed it twice today when Wise and Getz hit their homers that no one sang along with the organ.

  • My first game they played the Red Sox two days after this.

  • lol the ticket lady

  • Thanks for posting this awesome video!i was a kid in the 80's but i remember going to at least 3 ball games at old comiskey.I miss the history of that park,but i will never forget it!

  • I used to like both chicago teams untill the white sox broke my heart and moved out of comiskey. Now I'm strictly a Cubs fan.

  • Nobody likes both Chicago teams unless you're a transplant from out of town. Good luck with that Cub fan thing.....any team can have a bad century, right?

  • Cub fans are fucking idiots and believe what ever they are told.

    The truth is the crime rate is higher in the area around Wrigley than it is around U.S. Cellular.

    Look it it up dickless.

    I am sure that you have never ventured to a place that far from your gayborhood and would piss your Old Navy cargo pants if you did.

    The Cubs and their swishy fans are the Jonas brothers of baseball.

    Sissy ass fluff for 13 year old girls who don't know any better.

  • That blonde was sorta cute.

    Wonder what she looks like today.

  • what song is that at 4:00? I love this video, i have been a Sox fan since i was 7 unfortunatley, i was born after old comiskey was torn down, its a shame the Cell is so bad compared to parks like Camden Yards and Jacobs Field.

  • That's the theme from "Cheers"

  • You have to give them credit though, they've really responded to what the fans wanted as far as changing the ballpark.

  • I'm a Yankee fan, but I would have liked to have gone to a game at old Comiskey Park. In 1990, I was only 4 years old when they demolished it.

  • This is awesome. I've been to Comiskey Park when I was young, and don't remember the stadium very much, so this is a real treat for me.

    Thanks a lot for posting this!

  • Yep, just damn awesome.

  • Yea and a guy takin it up the ass represent what the cubs are.LOL

  • You speak from experience. LOL

  • its arlight, you have a reason to be upset..i mean, every team has a bad century right? hahaha, fuckin choke. cubs suck

  • I dont care, win or lose I`m a Cubs fan.

    You guys could win the next 10 World Series and this town would still be a Cub town.

    GO CUBS!!

  • Cub town?

    Half of these people are WS fans... cubs fans are just giving up

  • You gotta stop smoking that crack they sell around Comiskey, oh wait a minute, it`s Cellular Field

    SELL OUTS!! LOL

  • So your definition of a cub town is a town in which tourists flock to your ballpark because they want to get a tan and drink...come on. Let's be real.

  • Well it`s not going to the southside to buy crack, is it?

    Let`s be real, you know in Chicago there`s more Cub fans, so that makes it a Cub town.

  • You think that the only reason people go to the southside is to buy crack? If more people want to waste their lives rooting for a lousy team, so be it.

  • Yes, me and the rest of the world think that LOL

    I rather root for a lousy team and be in a safe area than around crack heads and prostitutes

  • I beg to differ...

  • You beg for reefer LOL

    figures, your a Sux fan

  • You don't seem to be able to carry on a good argument. For that, I'm done with you. Have fun seeing your beloved cubbies choke the rest of your life.

  • Yeah thanks.

    Have fun smoking the crack you buy outside of Comisky, oh sorry U.S. Cellular Field SELL OUTS!! LOL

    GO CUBS!!

  • Have fun looking at your World Series trophy... oops forgot about that one.

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  • There may be crack on the south side but i don't need "sausage in my bun" like all the fag cub fans around wrigleyville. But you have to admit as a cub fan that it get's frustrating when you have a large payroll and you have nothing to show for it.

  • LOL yeah,wait til next century cubs fans! 2108!Cubs,woo,suck,woo!

  • Cubs blow northside fags.

  • I never had a chance to see a game at Old Comiskey ... I didn't discover baseball or the White Sox until about five years too late, but I love seeing the old video. I wish I'd had a chance.

    I have to say, though, I love the Cell. It's not a fancy, gimmick park. It has no train or waterfall or shooting fountain or fancy brick walls. It's clean and simple with comfortable seats and good views. It's a great place to watch a game.

    Plus, Nancy's still there, at least for day games.

  • Wow! Great video! I've always wanted a thorough document of all aspects of Comiskey including the picnic area and was glad to see you captured everything before its passing. Thanks for sharing!

  • Actually, although I used to like the Sox, I feared the "exploding scoreboard". The booming fireworks that fired from it after a Sox homer was pretty pleasing to Bill Veeck, who wanted the scoreboard in the first place. And it was pretty scary when the fireworks boomed when I went with my parents to a White Sox game in 1975 or so in the old Comiskey Park.

  • Ozzie bringin' out the lineup. How eerie is that. Just a little foreshadowing there. Too bad these late eighties early nineties teams were so average at best. I love this video and can't wait to watch the next two. Unfortunately, the Sox were the first team to get a new stadium, and they loused it up horribly. The renovations make it less awful, but to think what might have been if they had just waited a few years. Oh, wait. They spent only 30 million on the new stadium.

  • Sure wish they kept old Comiskey, and touched it up like they just did to Wrigley Field.

  • R.I.P. IVAN CALDERON

  • I was at "A day int he park" sponsored by the Loop

    in the 70's, actually two times, saw great concerts there. .

  • Thank you so much for posting these videos of Old Comiskey Park...I never got to go there because i was only 5 when it was demolished and i also lived in Arkansas which made it virtually impossible lol...i miss it and have a replica sitting on my desk at work thanks for posting this!

  • Who let that creepy clown in???? And who ever saw a clown wearing glasses???

  • It is 'andy' the clown!! Obviously not a Southsider...

  • You gotta ride up on your sox history.

  • Bill Veeck really made the stadium awesome.

  • shit white sox!

  • Thank you for posting this...a lot of good memories there!

  • This place was way better than Wimpy Field

  • Thank you for posting this!

  • What sweet memories!!  Something about a muggy night, the smoke in the air after the fireworks, and Nancy's music takes me deliciously back to being a kid in the 70's! I miss the park, but its time had come. Thank you for posting this!!

  • I was Gary Peters' number 1 fan. I idolized the guy as a teenager and followed his career. Rookie of the year in 1963 and 20 game winner in 1964. Not bad on a team that wasn't known for knocking the cover off the ball.

  • I see that team featured a non-beefed up Sammy Sosa as well as a non-jerked up Frank Thomas... kind of a decent lineup for an also-ran that year.

  • Oops, I thought they were worse than they were, finished 2nd to Oakland A's with 94 wins - with more wins than the AL East winner Red Sox... I should've remembered - went to a key Sox-A's Friday night game in June after being at the US Open at Medinah that day.

  • The Sox should have been in the AL East since Chicago is east of Milwaukee. The Brewers shoulda been in the West instead.

    We woulda won it all in '83 if the AL was aligned properly. And maybe upset the A's in '90.

  • A very, very beautiful video - thank you for sharing. It really takes me back. That 1990 team was a blast too! The little davies that almost toppled the goliath A's!

  • Man, this is a GREAT video....thank you.

  • This is the greatest video i have seen on youtube, brings back great childhood memories, if I could have only gone to a couple more games..

  • CHICAGO.....HOME OF THEE ALMIGHTY CHICAGO WHITE SOX.thanks for these videos......

  • Man this brings back some memories. So sad this place is gone.

  • i miss that old park

  • Not at all. Sox fans and Cardinal fans are in agreement when it comes to the Flubs.

    Completely

    Useless

    Beyond

    September

  • Great video, nice to get a chance to see how the old Comiskey experience was after all, how do you feel II compares to the original?

  • I've been to the new park only twice since I now live in St Louis. Maybe the sight lines are better, and the concourses wider, but I'll still take the old yard for the character, history and just flat out fun!

  • Man, it must be difficult to be a sox fan in St. Louis but I would imagine that span of '05 - '06 must of been a crazy.

  • Man the hurt was a beast! I am only 21 and the one thing I will never get over is not being able to see a game at Comiskey. And yes, I wish Nancy played all the time but she only works part time now.

  • I wish I could of gone to Old Comiskey I was born june 1990 so I never had a chance to go

  • Me too, nothing like old school Baseball.

  • Did he say Alex Fernadez was on the mound? I could have swore that he didn't come up until '91. Not that I remember of course, but I thought it said so on baseball reference.

  • thank you for putting this up! go sox!

  • 9:10 is awesome.

    They really need to let Nancy play more. I hate the crap they pipe in through the speakers today across the street.

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