Old Comiskey Park (1/3)

My first baseball game was a White Sox game. I watched Gary Peters shut out the Yankees 1-0. I was hooked. Even though I grew up on the North Side, I was a Sox fan (and I have the scars to prove it!). I was there when Joel Horlen threw a no-hitter, when Jerry Dybzinski got caught in a rundown against the Orioles. I remember Harry in the bleachers for the Wednesday day games, Dick Allen smoking a cigarette on the cover of S.I., Wilbur Wood, Smoky Burgess, Bee Bee Richards, Steve Dahl, Rick Reichardt, Ed Herrmann, McCuddy's.....you get the idea.
This is video I shot from my last game at Old Comiskey. I wanted to soak in as much of the flavor as possible. It wasn't about the game, it was about that park. All that's missing is the smell of grilled onions, mixed with the cigar smoke, mixed with the marijuana, mixed with the beer, mixed with the urine. I've since moved to St. Louis - Cardinal fans and Sox fans are very similar in one respect.....in that when it comes to Chicago baseball, there is only ONE major league team........THE SOX!

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• exploding scoreboard
• bill veeck
• disco demolition
• sox park
• 35th & shields
• south side hit men
• ivan calderon
• baseball
• stadium
• ballpark
• harry caray
• home run

[brokertothestars]

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!

[romancitoG]

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

[brokertothestars]

@romancitoG How bout them Cubbies?

[MartyMcFly700]

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

[brokertothestars]

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

[MartyMcFly700]

@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.

[brokertothestars]

@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!

[detoth67]

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!

[brebel]

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.

[plateofshrimps]

Nancy playing Cheers for a Boston game awesome

[sugarbear522]

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.

[mjviquez]

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!

[nipple543]

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

[MrLehnerd]

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!

[DNSKansas]

@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.

[SFFOOL76]

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

[skifusya]

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.

[MisterBouncyBounce]

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