I was very lucky to have visited all the old parks that were still in use from about 1980 onward, except Comiskey Park. I was in college in Florida when they tore it down and I'm still kicking myself for not making it there before it was gone.
@@crocodile1313 Sorry to hear you never got a chance to attend a game at old Comiskey. Fortunately I attended two, maybe three games there. Also took in a game at what's, to me, still new Comiskey Park.
To a degree... what a fumble by the white sox... man should have just renovated. But instead, they went new in the same rough spot! With possibly the most sterilized stadium ever designed.
I'm back my comments are below from 7 years ago. I watch this a lot because of the memories it brings back. I love the Sox and I loved that park. I am ready for baseball and the Sox are going to be in the baseball spotlight this season and many to come, the team they have assembled could be the greatest that they have ever had. Barring injuries they will be the kings of baseball very soon.
This video brings back so many memories of a place and a team i love. I was a season ticket holder and saw many of the events on this video,in fact my wife and i are on it at the 4:10 mark, we are sitting in the back row ,i have a white shirt and my wife is wearing sunglasses and seems to be looking at the camera. Thanks for sharing this, i watch it a lot.
Can you imagine how much of a gem this would be in 2022 had they kept it and just refurbished it like how Cubs did. I think they made a mistake getting rid of it looking back.
Camden Yards in Baltimore was a good idea but the rest of these new generations stadiums all look like parodies of each other. Caricatures of what they want us to think old ballparks were like. If you don't have posts holding up the upper deck your just too far away.
Your right. I went to COMISKEY 15 memorable years. It was old , smelly and not beautiful as a building , but coming out of the concourse up to your seat, there it was beautiful
Man, if I ever owned a baseball team, I would build a stadium looking like this design.... I love the old school baseball feel I get watching this video... Well done....
From 1967 to 1990 I saw close to 300 games there with my parents and brothers and friends. It was my 2nd home and watched tons of games on tv or on the radio. My family taught me the love of baseball through the White Sox and always carry their memories. Its a great video thanks for posting
Watching games on the radio isn't as outlandish as it might seem because broadcasters like Red Rush, Harry Caray, Jimmy Piersall, and Joe McConnell could describe the game so vividly that the listener could "see" the action in his mind.
I live in Australia, know nothing 'bout baseball ; but I adore the city of Chicago and it's history. This is a wonderful video, great architecture. Stories of other people are very touching, folks who call Chicago home. "People who/ smile at you"...or so said Frankie
I remember sitting in center field with Harry Carey and Bill Veeck. Veecks wooden leg hanging in the aisle. Drinking beer soaking up the sun and just enjoying life and the great game of baseball ⚾️ It'll never be the same man how I miss those days.
i was in most of the old ball parks except for ebbs and crosley and this was the best. it was perfect in so many ways. to tear it down and to put up with they did was a crime.
I'm not even a Sox fan but this hit me. This team has a storied pass and will never be forgotten. We need more Men like Bill Veeck in Baseball today. His personality and wisdom made the game fun and exciting. Maybe they way I feel about this team, there is a Sox fan inside me after all.
If they were able to renovate Fenway and Wrigley, they could easily have renovated Comiskey and Tiger Stadium. I sort of like the new Comiskey, but Comerica Park is a terrible place to see a baseball game. The seats are a mile away from the field and the deck angles are flat and the place is gigantic. No intimacy at all. There is very little shelter from the sun. On a sunny day with temps at 75 or higher it is like sitting in a frying pan. It is horrible. And it's stale and sterile and awful. Anyway. The old parks had their flaws, but they were better overall
+GBev2K You are right Comiskey and Tiger stadium could have been renovated. U S Cellular is a nice park with all the modern convenience's but it is just like you describe Comerica, if you sit in the sun you will fry your ass off. I had season tickets in the left field lower deck at Old Comiskey and you were sheltered from the sun by the upper deck roof. I'm nostalgic but the biggest loss you have when you go to a new park is the memories you had at the old one. Even though you will always have those memories, you cant go back to where you had them. When you went to a game you could almost feel the history of the park as you watched the game. I am in this video at the 4:10 mark. My wife and I are in the back row, she has sunglasses and is looking towards the camera. I like the current Sox park but I miss the old one every day.
+Freyja11331ify The Sox have done a lot of strange things in their history. They should have torn down Comiskey and rebuilt an exact replica of the old one.
Lol You clearly didn't spend time in Sun Life. With the heat in FL, and an outdoor multipurpose stadium in a rainy area. That was the worst place to see a game.
+Sean P I have spent my whole life in hot humid weather. The temps in Illinois a lot of the summer are in the high 80's and low 90's with dew points in the 70's. I have also been to Florida in the same conditions. Neither scenario is anything to brag about.
In fairness, Tiger Stadium was located in the middle of nowhere and it was completely falling apart. But there's no reason why Comerica couldn't have been built in a similar fashion.
My mother use to take me to the games. I grew up just on the other side of the expressway. And even when we did no go in the park, watching the fireworks gave us proof of another home run for the home team! The sound of the black gravel under my tires as my friends and I rode our bikes in the parking lot at night also brings back great memories of the monstrous sized park with the painted white facade.
Flew over 2000 miles to witness last two games played at Old Comiskey in late September of 1990. The fools who tore it down should be shot, but not before the fools who built the new park.
And the sad thing is, the “other” place across the street is TERRIBLE! No personality, no ambiance, no character, just a depressing concrete and steel piece of garbage. The team that benefitted from how bad the “new” Comisky was the Baltimore Orioles. The way I heard it was that the company that built Camden Yards learned from their mistakes when building “new” Comisky that they redesigned Camden Yards to have character charm and most importantly, intimacy between the fans and the players which the “new” SOX park has none! I love the SOX but truly dislike the stadium!
Lifelong Sox fan born in '92. Obviously never got to experience the old ballpark, but have always been fascinated by it and enjoy reading about it. Always stop by the home plate marker next to new Comiskey (I refuse to call it by any other name) when I get a chance. And while I do consider the new park a home away from home of sorts, I know it doesn't replace the old Comiskey, even though I understand it was a difficult choice for the team and city to make; either replace the palace of baseball with a new taxpayer funded park, or lose the White Sox to Tampa (and given how the Rays have fared down there, it would've been a waste of a franchise)
As a Cubs fan, I love Wrigley Field, and its a shame that Chicago couldn’t have 2 classic ball parks. I don’t know why they tore this down and replaced it with what is considered one of the worst stadiums in the MLB
Was able to play in a 3-day White Sox fantasy camp at old Comiskey Park in September of 1990. Got to bat against Hoyt Wilhelm and Gary Peters. Played catch with Minnie Minoso. I was 44 at the time and the throw from third base to first was a real rainbow. They tore the park down that fall. Sad. Attended my first game in 1956. Saw Billy Pierce out pitch Whitey Ford.
That brought back more than a few memories of when I was a kid rooting on the Sox. I still can't look at those photos of it partially demolished. Those bring up tears.
Typical of Chicago disrespecting stadiums. Comiskey Park and the awful renovation of soldier field. Lucky cubs fans still have their stadium left the way it was with a few renovations.
Yeah, and you know what was there before their was a ballpark? A Garbage Dump! So when do we get to hear, "There Used to be a Garbage Dump Right Here."
Was this park really all that different from Tiger Stadium? Other than the scoreboard they had pretty much the same layout. The problem is that this park got replaced just a couple years too early. It was given a boring design, quite similar to the cookie cutters of the 70's. Had they done something like what Baltimore did a year later, the sting wouldn't be as bad.
Went to lots of games there in the 60's and early 70's. Ty Cobb played there. Joe Jackson,Babe Ruth Lou Gherig,Jimmie Foxx,Lefty Grove, Mickey Mantle,Whitey Ford,Ted Williams,joe DiMaggio, Eddie Collins etc etc etc. How could they tear it down? It'd be like throwing your pre war Martin in the trash
I wish that the Sox would rebuild a replica of old Comiskey Park and tear down the stadium they are currently using. The owners claimed that the old stadium was in bad shape and needed to be torn down. What the owners did was neglect the old stadium in its final years to make their point. It was only when they started tearing down the old stadium that people realized that the stadium was far better shape than what the owners claimed it was in.
I visited a little too late, getting out to Chicago when I was in grad school in 1997. Of course I went to the antiseptic "new Comiskey" (as it was called before corporate naming started). I really regret not making it to the real Comiskey. We're missing the ballparks that really personified a team and Comiskey was one of those. Right away you knew you were watching a White Sox game with that intimate green background.
Beautiful job! Just terrific! I was thinking of doing a similar thing with Candlestick Park, as the final game (MNF) tomorrow has me feeling nostalgiac and kinda sad. But you did just a great job here, there's no topping it, and it feels more appropriate for Comiskey with Mr Veek's trademarked exploding scoreboard and the fireworks across the sky. I can't say enough about what a great job you did. Thanks for sharing.
Bet the Sox would of kept the old park same with the Tigers they could of done a massive overhaul like wrigley or Fenway hell after the Cubs redo the upper deck everything is new pretty much you can never replicate what the old ballparks gave even when a team was not good people would want to go out to the old ballparks now if you’re no good with new ballparks people won’t come
f n White Sox as a tiger fan I miss Comiskey like I miss old Tiger Stadium what I remember about Comiskey is I called them portals in between the the levels of stands where you can see outside like Windows
in your dreams. That shitty looking ivy that damn near poked Schwarber's eye out. The seating sucks. Smells like piss and concrete chunks falling out. Wrigley didn't have anything on comisky
First time I visited Old Comiskey was June of 1987. I was lured by the smell of Mexican food in the Picnic Area behind the LF wall, and lifted up a lid to one of the pots asking the woman standing near what was in it? She didn't answer, so I asked again - and again. Then another woman came over and said, "She doesn't speak English!". That was all I needed to hear; I'll have a large bowl of whatever is in that pot!". Just one example of how authentic this ballpark was. The new one is, as Howard Cosell might have put it, "Just a shadow of its former self.".
I wish I got to go there. :( I hear so many White Sox and Comiskey stories from the 70s and 80s and considering how crazy they were, it makes me think of how fun baseball is.
In 1953 my grandfather took my brother and me to see Satchel Paige pitch for the St. Louis Browns against the White Sox at Comiskey Park . A month later I was in Cook County Hospital fighting for my life in an iron lung . Evidently it was " Polio Night " at the old ballpark .
I went to a game at Wrigley in 1987 and then I went to a game the last year of Comiskey. I enjoyed the game at Comiskey ten times more than I enjoyed the game at Wrigley. The fans were much more engaged with the game. A lot more fun to be around. the park, I thought, was a better experience. Cub fans were at Wrigley just to say they went there. That being said, it probably was time to replace it when they did. Hard to believe it's been over 25 years!
You do not like that ballpark because you are afraid of the scoreboard fireworks like they did Comiskey? The fireworks that exploded from the board were loud.
This park should never have been torn down. They should have restored it AND left the neighborhood taverns/businesses around it intact. The blue-seated atrocity across the street may have come with all the “bells & whistles”, but it possessed NONE of the history, charm or mystique of it’s grand predecessor, the TRUE Comiskey Park. The old park took with it a great deal of the team’s hard earned character. I loved the White Sox, but it took me years to feel the same passion I held before they ‘86’d our beloved ballpark.
I grew up in California but my dad was from Chicago. My family there are more Cubs fans but one time while visiting, probably around ‘81 my grandpa took my brother and I to Comiskey. Sox played the Yanks. I remember feeling like stepping back in time when I entered the park. You could feel the history. I was 11 years old but even I knew it was a special place. It’s a shame they let it go. I liked it better than Wrigley. I’m a Giants fan but have a soft spot for the Sox because of the experience.
I loved that ballpark and was lucky enough to travel and see a game in 1982 vs the A’s. They made a mistake and should of just refurbished it like the Cubs did. Can you imagine what a “gem” it would be if it was still here in 2022.
Here's a version for Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC, where Howard University Hospital now stands. Soon RFK Stadium may face the same fate, once DC United's new stadium opens. ruclips.net/video/pCcKm2GrWvk/видео.html
Born in 2000, I can only dream if they could have kept this beautiful ball park as it is. Why must they have torn down someghing that never had to be. Curse you jerry. You have stripped too much from this team. A team that I love and now have grown to hate. This place could have been like wrigley, which I even admit i love going to.
As a kid, I remember the thrill of a 9th inning come from behind win. Singing that na, na, na song as we exited the park down some crowed steep stairwell. We would always park on some gravel road near train tracks.
This song is more suited for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Ebbets Field, plus the the fact the New York Mets hardly tried during their first years in existence.
Well, the old park's added antics (Comiskey Park, of course) was a bit like the shrine in Oakland, CA, known as the Oakland Coliseum when the team's president, Charles Finley, shined with the A's in their championship years of 1972, 1973, and 1974. There was an allusion to Finley's wanting of his stadium's fireworks during home runs and during team victories to his A's team - and Bill Veeck's shrine known as Comiskey Park and its Chicago White Sox, that outlasted Finley's antics in Oakland in the 1970s. Comiskey Park shined of course with its own exploding scoreboard and its fireworks - as well as Veeck's organizing of a crap ton of between-game and pre-game events--some of them that were pretty funny and wacky, which made that ballpark (Comiskey) an even stronger shrine and palace than that of Oakland's antics in that decade.
Charles Smith i wish I could have visited that historical park. Oakland antics are good and the seats in Oakland cost five times less than San Francisco. Oakland Coliseum is about to get torn down soon for a new park in 2021. The warriors moved and The Oakland Arena is getting torn down in 2020. Then they can start the new ballpark in that spot.
TheDieHardWWEAddict I never called Fenway a dump. I've been there and it's a beautiful park. But I grew up in Chicago and spent many hours at 35th and Shields.
Went there many times in the 70's and 80's. Was there for the division clincher with my mom. Went to all-star game festivities, both in 83. Miss the atmosphere, the scoreboard, Harry Caray's singing in the 7th inning. Nansy Faust on the organ. We fans singing nana nana hey hey hey goodbye. Man great memories. Bill Veeck was great.
Nice! I just figured out recently that my first and last visit to Comiskey were exactly 10 years apart. July 11th, 1980 and July 11th, 1990, which was the first ever turn-back-the-clock day. Something that has really taken off since.
Sad but the video gave it the true feel of Cominskey park... was fortunate enough to have been at a game in the 80's(Sox won that day) and I thank my college buddy for getting a ticket for me to see one of the grand old ballparks... some ballparks should be preserved by the National Register for Preservation... sad to see them go because they had charm and each had its uniqueness.
Closed the year after I was born. But I've longed to go there my whole life. I had a dream last night that was so real that I was there.
southparkfan2717 I was there many times. i wish you could have seen a game there
I was very lucky to have visited all the old parks that were still in use from about 1980 onward, except Comiskey Park. I was in college in Florida when they tore it down and I'm still kicking myself for not making it there before it was gone.
@@crocodile1313 Sorry to hear you never got a chance to attend a game at old Comiskey. Fortunately I attended two, maybe three games there. Also took in a game at what's, to me, still new Comiskey Park.
I like the way these old ball parks look way better then today’s parks.
To a degree... what a fumble by the white sox... man should have just renovated. But instead, they went new in the same rough spot! With possibly the most sterilized stadium ever designed.
I'm back my comments are below from 7 years ago. I watch this a lot because of the memories it brings back. I love the Sox and I loved that park. I am ready for baseball and the Sox are going to be in the baseball spotlight this season and many to come, the team they have assembled could be the greatest that they have ever had. Barring injuries they will be the kings of baseball very soon.
i still have the foul ball i caught in a 1984 game between the white sox and a's. i was 17 at the time. lol.
should have left it stand.. made the parking lot inside
This video brings back so many memories of a place and a team i love. I was a season ticket holder and saw many of the events on this video,in fact my wife and i are on it at the 4:10 mark, we are sitting in the back row ,i have a white shirt and my wife is wearing sunglasses and seems to be looking at the camera. Thanks for sharing this, i watch it a lot.
Can you imagine how much of a gem this would be in 2022 had they kept it and just refurbished it like how Cubs did. I think they made a mistake getting rid of it looking back.
Old comiskey park.thats when the white sox had a great team in 1983.
Michael Kawell I was there when they clinched. That place was rockin’. First mlb game ever.
Camden Yards in Baltimore was a good idea but the rest of these new generations stadiums all look like parodies of each other. Caricatures of what they want us to think old ballparks were like. If you don't have posts holding up the upper deck your just too far away.
Your right. I went to COMISKEY 15 memorable years. It was old , smelly and not beautiful as a building , but coming out of the concourse up to your seat, there it was beautiful
Man, if I ever owned a baseball team, I would build a stadium looking like this design.... I love the old school baseball feel I get watching this video...
Well done....
From 1967 to 1990 I saw close to 300 games there with my parents and brothers and friends. It was my 2nd home and watched tons of games on tv or on the radio. My family taught me the love of baseball through the White Sox and always carry their memories. Its a great video thanks for posting
Watching games on the radio isn't as outlandish as it might seem because broadcasters like Red Rush, Harry Caray, Jimmy Piersall, and Joe McConnell could describe the game so vividly that the listener could "see" the action in his mind.
I live in Australia, know nothing 'bout baseball ; but I adore the city of Chicago and it's history. This is a wonderful video, great architecture. Stories of other people are very touching, folks who call Chicago home. "People who/ smile at you"...or so said Frankie
I remember sitting in center field with Harry Carey and Bill Veeck. Veecks wooden leg hanging in the aisle. Drinking beer soaking up the sun and just enjoying life and the great game of baseball ⚾️
It'll never be the same man how I miss those days.
Yes, it's a shame.
With his wooden leg with an ashtray built in!
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Yep
Whatever became of those trees that were down the right field line outside of the park? I had heard at the park closing they were 120 years old
How many of you all hate the idea of naming baseball stadiums after corporations?
I like it, actually.
God i fucking despise it
i was in most of the old ball parks except for ebbs and crosley and this was the best. it was perfect in so many ways. to tear it down and to put up with they did was a crime.
Great view of the game, great for sound too. But it really could be creepy too.
The first couple rows in the 2 out field decks you are literally almost on the field just overlooking it even those were great seats.
I'm not even a Sox fan but this hit me. This team has a storied pass and will never be forgotten. We need more Men like Bill Veeck in Baseball today. His personality and wisdom made the game fun and exciting. Maybe they way I feel about this team, there is a Sox fan inside me after all.
So much character to that old park. I use to love looking out towards left field and seeing the trees swaying in the summer breeze. RIP.
Another great original ballpark that should of been saved/renovated! From a die hard Minnesota Twins fan!
If they were able to renovate Fenway and Wrigley, they could easily have renovated Comiskey and Tiger Stadium. I sort of like the new Comiskey, but Comerica Park is a terrible place to see a baseball game. The seats are a mile away from the field and the deck angles are flat and the place is gigantic. No intimacy at all. There is very little shelter from the sun. On a sunny day with temps at 75 or higher it is like sitting in a frying pan. It is horrible. And it's stale and sterile and awful. Anyway. The old parks had their flaws, but they were better overall
+GBev2K You are right Comiskey and Tiger stadium could have been renovated. U S Cellular is a nice park with all the modern convenience's but it is just like you describe Comerica, if you sit in the sun you will fry your ass off. I had season tickets in the left field lower deck at Old Comiskey and you were sheltered from the sun by the upper deck roof. I'm nostalgic but the biggest loss you have when you go to a new park is the memories you had at the old one. Even though you will always have those memories, you cant go back to where you had them. When you went to a game you could almost feel the history of the park as you watched the game. I am in this video at the 4:10 mark. My wife and I are in the back row, she has sunglasses and is looking towards the camera. I like the current Sox park but I miss the old one every day.
+Freyja11331ify The Sox have done a lot of strange things in their history. They should have torn down Comiskey and rebuilt an exact replica of the old one.
Lol You clearly didn't spend time in Sun Life. With the heat in FL, and an outdoor multipurpose stadium in a rainy area. That was the worst place to see a game.
+Sean P I have spent my whole life in hot humid weather. The temps in Illinois a lot of the summer are in the high 80's and low 90's with dew points in the 70's. I have also been to Florida in the same conditions. Neither scenario is anything to brag about.
In fairness, Tiger Stadium was located in the middle of nowhere and it was completely falling apart. But there's no reason why Comerica couldn't have been built in a similar fashion.
My mother use to take me to the games. I grew up just on the other side of the expressway. And even when we did no go in the park, watching the fireworks gave us proof of another home run for the home team! The sound of the black gravel under my tires as my friends and I rode our bikes in the parking lot at night also brings back great memories of the monstrous sized park with the painted white facade.
What a wonderful song by Frank Sinatra.
Legitimately brought a tear to my eye and I fucking hate the Sox
Flew over 2000 miles to witness last two games played at Old Comiskey in late September of 1990. The fools who tore it down should be shot, but not before the fools who built the new park.
I still prefer the old Comiskey rather than the taxpayers and corporate.' park
And the sad thing is, the “other” place across the street is TERRIBLE! No personality, no ambiance, no character, just a depressing concrete and steel piece of garbage.
The team that benefitted from how bad the “new” Comisky was the Baltimore Orioles. The way I heard it was that the company that built Camden Yards learned from their mistakes when building “new” Comisky that they redesigned Camden Yards to have character charm and most importantly, intimacy between the fans and the players which the “new” SOX park has none! I love the SOX but truly dislike the stadium!
So many great times there.
I really miss the old place.
I was at the Disco Demolition there .
I grew up in that park...
disco demolition night....thanks for ending that music.....
Lifelong Sox fan born in '92. Obviously never got to experience the old ballpark, but have always been fascinated by it and enjoy reading about it. Always stop by the home plate marker next to new Comiskey (I refuse to call it by any other name) when I get a chance. And while I do consider the new park a home away from home of sorts, I know it doesn't replace the old Comiskey, even though I understand it was a difficult choice for the team and city to make; either replace the palace of baseball with a new taxpayer funded park, or lose the White Sox to Tampa (and given how the Rays have fared down there, it would've been a waste of a franchise)
As a Cubs fan, I love Wrigley Field, and its a shame that Chicago couldn’t have 2 classic ball parks. I don’t know why they tore this down and replaced it with what is considered one of the worst stadiums in the MLB
Adam Zmigrodski worst stadium? LMAO
Chicago had two classic ballparks for decades. And Comiskey was way better than Wrigley Field.
That used to be the case but new comiskey has turned out to be a great Park to watch a game
Way better food on southside.
Some many great memories but most of all i fell in love with the Chicago White Sox and always be a White Sox fan
Was able to play in a 3-day White Sox fantasy camp at old Comiskey Park in September of 1990. Got to bat against Hoyt Wilhelm and Gary Peters. Played catch with Minnie Minoso. I was 44 at the time and the throw from third base to first was a real rainbow. They tore the park down that fall. Sad. Attended my first game in 1956. Saw Billy Pierce out pitch Whitey Ford.
That brought back more than a few memories of when I was a kid rooting on the Sox. I still can't look at those photos of it partially demolished. Those bring up tears.
I saw about 15-games at the old park in the summer of 1990. It was a cool place.
I can’t stand the White Sox (I root for an AL Central rival), but they should have stayed at the original Comiskey
Well I can't stand the Yankees, , red Sox, dodgers ,and cardinals
Mario Cisneros Same with all those teams too
Go Tribe!
Typical of Chicago disrespecting stadiums. Comiskey Park and the awful renovation of soldier field. Lucky cubs fans still have their stadium left the way it was with a few renovations.
Wrigley is a shit hole even with the renovations. Soldier Field may look bad on the outside, but the inside is awesome.
Yeah, and you know what was there before their was a ballpark? A Garbage Dump! So when do we get to hear, "There Used to be a Garbage Dump Right Here."
In my opinion, Way better than Wrigley.
Miss the old ball parks. Today's stadiums are all the same.
Love Target Field in Minneapolis . Great layout next to Target Center and light rail . Old time feel at that park
Was this park really all that different from Tiger Stadium? Other than the scoreboard they had pretty much the same layout. The problem is that this park got replaced just a couple years too early. It was given a boring design, quite similar to the cookie cutters of the 70's. Had they done something like what Baltimore did a year later, the sting wouldn't be as bad.
Went to lots of games there in the 60's and early 70's. Ty Cobb played there. Joe Jackson,Babe Ruth Lou Gherig,Jimmie Foxx,Lefty Grove, Mickey Mantle,Whitey Ford,Ted Williams,joe DiMaggio, Eddie Collins etc etc etc. How could they tear it down? It'd be like throwing your pre war Martin in the trash
I wish that the Sox would rebuild a replica of old Comiskey Park and tear down the stadium they are currently using. The owners claimed that the old stadium was in bad shape and needed to be torn down. What the owners did was neglect the old stadium in its final years to make their point. It was only when they started tearing down the old stadium that people realized that the stadium was far better shape than what the owners claimed
it was in.
I visited a little too late, getting out to Chicago when I was in grad school in 1997. Of course I went to the antiseptic "new Comiskey" (as it was called before corporate naming started). I really regret not making it to the real Comiskey. We're missing the ballparks that really personified a team and Comiskey was one of those. Right away you knew you were watching a White Sox game with that intimate green background.
Beautiful job! Just terrific! I was thinking of doing a similar thing with Candlestick Park, as the final game (MNF) tomorrow has me feeling nostalgiac and kinda sad. But you did just a great job here, there's no topping it, and it feels more appropriate for Comiskey with Mr Veek's trademarked exploding scoreboard and the fireworks across the sky. I can't say enough about what a great job you did. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much. Wonderful tribute to a great city and the White Sox.
Sinatra sang this about Ebbets Field. Talk about cultural appropriation!
Thats what the old Yankee stadium did for me. R.I.P. Comiskey. Great Vid
That ballpark was my second home, I’m still a season ticket holder. Still miss the old park.
i miss the old ballparks!
I never got a chance to go to the original i was born in 92 but i have a framed picture of it. My uncle has seats from there.
Its 15 minutes of fame, or in this case, infamy, was Disco Demolition Night.
Some of the old stadiums that got demolished I get it but others were just vicious to torn them down
Bill Veeck once referred to this ball park as the world's best biggest saloon.
It's because it was. The team sucked so bad minus 77 team. You had to drink the pain away being there
Bet the Sox would of kept the old park same with the Tigers they could of done a massive overhaul like wrigley or Fenway hell after the Cubs redo the upper deck everything is new pretty much you can never replicate what the old ballparks gave even when a team was not good people would want to go out to the old ballparks now if you’re no good with new ballparks people won’t come
f n White Sox as a tiger fan I miss Comiskey like I miss old Tiger Stadium what I remember about Comiskey is I called them portals in between the the levels of stands where you can see outside like Windows
When the Senators left Washington for Texas, I was fortunate to visit many stadiums. Comiskey Park was the best place I ever watched a game.
Miss that ballpark very much!
Big John76 wrigley is still better
CHRISTIAN GRONBERG nah
in your dreams. That shitty looking ivy that damn near poked Schwarber's eye out. The seating sucks. Smells like piss and concrete chunks falling out. Wrigley didn't have anything on comisky
Tom Servo to bad your team smashed it into ruble.
RavenOne they needed to dude. It was that or do what the cubs did and put a band aid on a piece of shit
First time I visited Old Comiskey was June of 1987. I was lured by the smell of Mexican food in the Picnic Area behind the LF wall, and lifted up a lid to one of the pots asking the woman standing near what was in it? She didn't answer, so I asked again - and again. Then another woman came over and said, "She doesn't speak English!". That was all I needed to hear; I'll have a large bowl of whatever is in that pot!". Just one example of how authentic this ballpark was. The new one is, as Howard Cosell might have put it, "Just a shadow of its former self.".
Trivia question time.....
Who was the last out recorded at the stadium and who was the battery for that last out?
The yellow box seats
I regret having never visited this park and the old Tiger's Stadium.
I have attended games at Comiskey park and at Cellular feild .Guess which one I like better?
I wish I got to go there. :( I hear so many White Sox and Comiskey stories from the 70s and 80s and considering how crazy they were, it makes me think of how fun baseball is.
We took our kids to Comiskey. Glad we went.
I was at the Disco Demolition there .
In 1953 my grandfather took my brother and me to see Satchel Paige pitch for
the St. Louis Browns against the White Sox at Comiskey Park . A month later
I was in Cook County Hospital fighting for my life in an iron lung . Evidently
it was " Polio Night " at the old ballpark .
Bill Veeck deserved more than a couple of seconds on the screen and Harry Caray and Nancy Faust deserved to be shown too.
how about Andy the clown
I went to a game at Wrigley in 1987 and then I went to a game the last year of Comiskey. I enjoyed the game at Comiskey ten times more than I enjoyed the game at Wrigley. The fans were much more engaged with the game. A lot more fun to be around. the park, I thought, was a better experience. Cub fans were at Wrigley just to say they went there. That being said, it probably was time to replace it when they did. Hard to believe it's been over 25 years!
Shoulda kept the place open.
P.S. I hate US Cellular Field
Why?
Even tackier Guaranteed Rate Field
You do not like that ballpark because you are afraid of the scoreboard fireworks like they did Comiskey? The fireworks that exploded from the board were loud.
They promised to rebuild McCuddy’s but never did
Babe Ruth's favorite bar
This park should never have been torn down. They should have restored it AND left the neighborhood taverns/businesses around it intact. The blue-seated atrocity across the street may have come with all the “bells & whistles”, but it possessed NONE of the history, charm or mystique of it’s grand predecessor, the TRUE Comiskey Park. The old park took with it a great deal of the team’s hard earned character.
I loved the White Sox, but it took me years to feel the same passion I held before they ‘86’d our beloved ballpark.
I grew up in California but my dad was from Chicago. My family there are more Cubs fans but one time while visiting, probably around ‘81 my grandpa took my brother and I to Comiskey. Sox played the Yanks. I remember feeling like stepping back in time when I entered the park. You could feel the history. I was 11 years old but even I knew it was a special place. It’s a shame they let it go. I liked it better than Wrigley. I’m a Giants fan but have a soft spot for the Sox because of the experience.
That park was built to last 200 years, Reinsdorf let it go.A shame.
@@daniellinehan63 and they don't even wear white sox anymore!
I loved that ballpark and was lucky enough to travel and see a game in 1982 vs the A’s. They made a mistake and should of just refurbished it like the Cubs did. Can you imagine what a “gem” it would be if it was still here in 2022.
It's completely sickening that Comiskey Park was brought down.
Here's a version for Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC, where Howard University Hospital now stands. Soon RFK Stadium may face the same fate, once DC United's new stadium opens.
ruclips.net/video/pCcKm2GrWvk/видео.html
Born in 2000, I can only dream if they could have kept this beautiful ball park as it is. Why must they have torn down someghing that never had to be. Curse you jerry. You have stripped too much from this team. A team that I love and now have grown to hate. This place could have been like wrigley, which I even admit i love going to.
Now Fenway is the last one standing...but for how much longer?
TheNorgate forever Fenway
Also Wrigley. And the Red Sox' ownership put $300-$400 million into restoring Fenway and are adamant about it staying exactly where it is.
@@crixxxxxxxxx The Red Sox leaving Fenway would be a crime!
What a beautiful Ballpark and PS Bill Veeck was a great American
As a kid, I remember the thrill of a 9th inning come from behind win. Singing that na, na, na song as we exited the park down some crowed steep stairwell. We would always park on some gravel road near train tracks.
That would be so cool to see a game from one of those field level seats in the outfield.
not much netting in front of the stands those days whereas now the whole sidelines are covered with netting.....horrible.
Live in Milwaukee, but have a soft spot in my heart for the Sox, when the Braves left, they played games here til We got the Brewers
This song is more suited for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Ebbets Field, plus the the fact the New York Mets hardly tried during their first years in existence.
Frank always new how to do it.
Thank you for a great video of memories.
I always liked that green color of the seats. It's so soothing.
It is across the street, a parking lot now. They have a home plate where the original was.
fUNNY, i ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THE SONG WAS ABOUT EBBETS FIELD IN BROOKLYN. WELL MAYBE THAT BECAUSE I AM FROM BROOKLYN.
It isnt about a specific ball park. He chose the lyrics to be any park. Although i am sure a specific park inspired the writing of the song,
@@brianfuller2163 From what I read the Polo Grounds inspired him but I will always think of Ebbets Field.
@@robertc391 Ok makes sense
It smelled like piss and stale beer like a ballpark should.
Only sox fan in my family.
I sure miss old Comiskey and wish it had never been torn down.
Well, the old park's added antics (Comiskey Park, of course) was a bit like the shrine in Oakland, CA, known as the Oakland Coliseum when the team's president, Charles Finley, shined with the A's in their championship years of 1972, 1973, and 1974. There was an allusion to Finley's wanting of his stadium's fireworks during home runs and during team victories to his A's team - and Bill Veeck's shrine known as Comiskey Park and its Chicago White Sox, that outlasted Finley's antics in Oakland in the 1970s. Comiskey Park shined of course with its own exploding scoreboard and its fireworks - as well as Veeck's organizing of a crap ton of between-game and pre-game events--some of them that were pretty funny and wacky, which made that ballpark (Comiskey) an even stronger shrine and palace than that of Oakland's antics in that decade.
Charles Smith i wish I could have visited that historical park. Oakland antics are good and the seats in Oakland cost five times less than San Francisco. Oakland Coliseum is about to get torn down soon for a new park in 2021. The warriors moved and The Oakland Arena is getting torn down in 2020. Then they can start the new ballpark in that spot.
The bleachers were the best.
This was the true baseball cathedral. Not Fenway, not Yankee Stadium, and sure as hell not Wrigley Field.
So great the dump is gone and if the hillbilly fans dont come out soon there won't be a team there.
Peter Marzano Keep spending your money on those lovable losers. Nothing like spending hare earned money on a subpar product.
Really disrespectful as hell calling Fenway a dump. Typical douchebag
John Holton Ebbets Field, man. You forgot to disrespect Ebbets. The one ball park id like to see a game in the most of all the old ones.
TheDieHardWWEAddict I never called Fenway a dump. I've been there and it's a beautiful park. But I grew up in Chicago and spent many hours at 35th and Shields.
Well done, beautiful memories
Great use of Sinatra here. Kudos
God Bless You David Smith!
Nicely done.
I love my sox!
I moved to Chicago in 2002 . Never got to experience this piece of mlb & Chicago history... I wish I did
Went there many times in the 70's and 80's. Was there for the division clincher with my mom. Went to all-star game festivities, both in 83. Miss the atmosphere, the scoreboard, Harry Caray's singing in the 7th inning. Nansy Faust on the organ. We fans singing nana nana hey hey hey goodbye. Man great memories. Bill Veeck was great.
Nice! I just figured out recently that my first and last visit to Comiskey were exactly 10 years apart. July 11th, 1980 and July 11th, 1990, which was the first ever turn-back-the-clock day. Something that has really taken off since.
Sad but the video gave it the true feel of Cominskey park... was fortunate enough to have been at a game in the 80's(Sox won that day) and I thank my college buddy for getting a ticket for me to see one of the grand old ballparks... some ballparks should be preserved by the National Register for Preservation... sad to see them go because they had charm and each had its uniqueness.
Great video the old ballparks had way more charm and ambience.