1929 World Series Philadelphia A's vs. Chicago Cubs
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Home movie footage of 1930 Flag Day followed by the 1929 World Series played between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago Cubs.
The World Series starts at 3:14.
Both games were played at Wrigley field. The World Series was played on either October 8 or October 9, 1929. It includes opening ceremonies, crowd shots, and a few pitches.
It's actually easy to affirm the date of this game as October 8th, game one. Notice the Philadelphia pitcher at 5:15 with the underhand delivery (also notice him warming up, and the underhand delivery, at 3:20) . That's Howard Ehmke, who set a World Series record that day with 13 strikeouts. The record wouldn't be broken until Carl Erskine struck out 14 in a game vs. the Yankees in 1953. It was also the last victory of Ehmke's career.
The man with the megaphone is none other that Pat Pieper, legendary PA announcer at Wrigley until 1974.
This is definitly something that the Cub's organization
and Baseball's Hall Of Fame would have interest in.
A reel GEM ! Thanks for posting!
Cub P.A.announcer in a game I went to in '74.
" Get your pencils and scorecards ready...."
R.I.P.
Home of the Chicago Whales
Federal League Champions- led by Joe Tinker
The 1929 & 1930 Philadelphia Athletics had a great team with world series Title, in 1931 the Athletics with 107 win was totally insane. Everybody is talking about the great NY Yankees of 1927 and rightly so but let's not forget that great Philadelphia Athletics team with outstanding players like Lefty Grove, Jim Cronin, Eddie Rommel, All Simmons and their outstanding manager.
Philadelphia kept the wrong team.
Jim Cronin not the same as Joe Cronin
They stymied Ruth- Gehrig for 3 yrs.
Then Mack sold them away
@@Shindler39 2008
@@Shindler39Phillies won the World Series in 1980 and 2008
I am a hotdog seat vendor at Wrigley and enjoy looking at this footage. It's amazing how the park has changed since this footage was taken. Very interesting.
It looks like there was no brick wall out there and fans lined up just beyond the outfield. Pre Ivy days I guess. Very interesting.
Yes, I noticed the same. Tony, are you still selling hotdogs?
All I can say is WOW! What a tremendous artifact. It's the oldest Cub world series footage I have ever seen and I believe it was the first World Series at Wrigley Feild.
The Cubs earlier 1918 appearance against the Red Sox was played at Cominskey Park because of the increased
seating capacity there. The upper deck at Wrigley was brand new in this film - built around '28 or '29.
This must be Game 1 because Howard Ehmke was a submarine thrower. He struck out a then record 13 batters and won 3-1. Excellent video to find!
Great video. One thing I noticed toward the end of the film. I looked for a male that wasn't wearing some kind of hat & couldn't find one. Thinks have really changed since then. 1930 was the year that Hack Wilson set the RBI record that still stands today at 191. It was also the year that Bill Terry was the last player in the N.L. to hit for over a .400 average.
You related to Bobby Schantz who pitched for Athletics in fiffties?
@@johnleber3369
Shantz*
And Hack was a booze- fueled METEORITE that burned out way too soon.His pic is still on the clubhouse door at Wrigley as a warning to young ballplayers.
It's crazy how similar it still looks to this video 80+ years later
That's great stuff. It's amazing how the sublties of the game really haven't changed over the last 80 years, other than the pitchers today taking forever to throw the damn ball.
Root & Emke did not dally around
That is the most incredible footage I've ever seen of Wrigley Field and the Cubs. This has to be incorporated into a Cubs documentary somehow. Amazing.
The Cubs were good in 1929, they just ran into a team that no one could have beated. That Athletics team was LOADED!
Plus they gave up 10 runs in 8th inning of Game 4( they were up 8-0).
It's awe-inspiring feeling to be able to watch something that took place over 78 years ago!
It's now going on 94 years
this is stunning! the quality and fluidity of the film.. same place different world, it's incredible. thanks for posting.
This is incredible to see a first hand account of sitting in the stands along with all the fans via a fan's perspective. The quality of the film is very good as well.
--> The opening footage is Wrigley Field on Opening day 1930.
Actually, it is Flag Day, 1930.
--> around the 5:30 mark, we get brief footage of Chicago during the 1929 Series.
Actually, the WS begins at 3:19 and continues until the end.
I saw the Cubs this year 2016 when they will win the World Series. Almost eerie thinking that wrigley looked the exact same now 100 years later
Casimir not the exact outfield is totally different
I can't wait until we have virtual reality machines that will be able to turn data like this into a fully immersive experience. Make it feel like you were really there minus the smell of the cigar smoke unless they invent smell o vision. What a dream it would be to go back in time to a classic world series game!
Thanks for posting this. Very interesting, especially the brief street scenes. I grew up in Philadelphia and have seen home video footage of some of the games in Philly from the 1929 Series, as well.
I also can't help but think how the Great Depression was right around the corner for all these people.
This is great footage. My guess is that the right handed pitcher with the submarine style of throwing would be the A’s Howard Ehmke.
THANK YOU for transferring this footage and sharing it with everyone!
Ah, I love the way various people have solved the mystery of what we are watching in this film. Thanks!
I am a ballpark vendor at Wrigley, and a fan of the Cubs. I love anything from this era when they went to the WS pretty much every 3 years ...very unlike today. Great to see how different the park looked back then, with pretty much the same buildings on Waveland & Sheffield. Thanks for uploading this. Wonderful!
William Wrigley was an owner like George Steinbrenner, spend what you NEED.Phil.......forgeta boutit !
excellent video. I don't care what anyone says, I love being a Cub fan and always will be. I've sat in just about every area of Wrigley, and never sat in a bad seat. It's a special field and I have a lot of wonderful memories of every visit. I grew up in Wrigley Ville, met quite a few of the players from the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's and 80's. When the Cubs make it to the big game, I know it'll be special for all the long time fans. So anyway, Thanks and good luck.
Even sitting under the scoreboard was cool.Met Phil Cavaretta in '87 in a row behind home( he was a NY Met scout).I said hello and said" you were N.L.MVP in '45 and played on 3 Cub WS teams here.And went to Lane Tech right down Addison".
He smiled and said " yep".
Nice man- wondered what was going through his mind looking at that field?
This is such a fantastic old film! Thank you for sharing it. Obviously taken before Bill Veeck had the ivy walls and famous scoreboard installed. Many of the same familiar buildings beyond the outfield walls now support rooftop bleachers. I remember my dad telling me many times that when the Cubs lost that series, he was so disgusted he became a White Sox fan and made sure I was one, too. When the White Sox lost the 1964 pennant by one game to the dreaded Yankees, I was so disgusted I became a Cubs fan! The city of Chicago has had many great teams, but, as someone wrote on a bed sheet held up years ago at Soldier Field during a Bears' game: "Chicago....more dog teams than the Yukon!"
Well said.!
That '64 Sox team lost 1st 9 games to the Yankees, then won the last 10 !
Yes, it is Howard Ehmke. There is a book coming out next month about Charlie Root, and they will be using still "snapshots" from this film. One of them will be of Ehmke's delivery that you see as he warms up on the sidelines.
This is great. Back when the WS was played in early october and in the DAY! No night WS with pitchers blowing on their hands cause it's 40 degrees, even though the daytime high was 64.
First night WS game not played until 1971. Last DAY WS game was in 1981! Did somebody say. . . tv revenue 🤑
Still cold there. The men wore overcoats in this video.
I do 16mm film transfers for friends and family. This one person had a whole reel from 1929 of nothing but sports. Definitely one-of-a-kind stuff, possibly with some real historical significance.
This was only 21 yrs since Cubs won their last World Series in 1908. Capone was probably mad cubs were in and not his be-
loved White Sox. Thankx for putting this film up. I always knew the A,s were a top team before they moved to Kansas City and Oakland.
Shit I was cruising thru baseball nastagla and I saw this remember the jokes on me but I thought I saw I was only 21 years old when the Cubs last won the World Series I was like your either Beetlejuice or your In possession of the Holy Grail either way we have to talk
Beat that great Frank Chance juggernaut in the 1910 WS( and won the next WS).Then, like in '12 and '32 and Finley's '75......broke them up.
This is amazing... Thanks for a great view of some great baseball history.
"All those people are probably dead." --
Actually, not quite. I was just contacted by the daughter of the starting Cubs pitcher (Charlie Root). She and her mom were sitting just next to where the World Series footage begins (it starts at 3:15 in the above movie). She is now 90, so was about 10 at that time. She has identified her dad from high-res still snapshots I have sent, showing her dad.
Well, they're dead now ☹️
@@paddle_shift you're probably right
@@johnmeyer77 🥲🙏😭
Really cool. I love old footage like this!! Thanks for posting! I live in one of those buildings shown ( I think), next to wrigley, really cool to see it like this : )
Yes, there were consumer film movie cameras way back then. 16mm film was introduced as a consumer format in 1922. The film was very expensive and remained expensive to this very day. As a result, Kodak came up with the idea of slitting the film down the length of the film, thus creating an 8mm format. This happened in 1932. It was over 30 years before the next format, Super8, was introduced. It used smaller sprocket holes, which resulted in a larger image and therefore better quality than 8mm.
As someone who has been to Wrigley hundreds of times, this is great video and one of the oldest I know of. Interesting to see the red line el train passing between the buildings at 2:17 and to see the SRO crowd hanging on the ramps to the upper deck. A lot has changed at Addison and Clark in Chicago but much has remained the same.
Back when people had dignity and class. When people, for the most part, worked hard, had respect for each other and took responsibility for their actions in life. It was really nice to watch an even where people weren't glued to their devices and not watching the game!
STFU
94 years ago yet pretty darn good film quality! the A'S had a tremendous team.loaded with HOFers
I gave a long explanation in one of the first comments (go back to the beginning of these posts). Short version: it was taken by my high school girlfriend's grandfather and had been sitting in her attic for thirty years. I transferred it for her. WFLD-TV did a short human interest piece about us and the film in June 2007.
It was taken in 1929. Movies were silent back then. Hollywood added sound to a few films in 1927-28, but home movie film didn't get sound for a long, long time.
WFLD-TV in Chicago contacted me (and the owner of the footage) last June and used it as part of featurette that ran after one of the Cubs-Sox inter-league games.
Wow!!! This is unbelievable stuff. Very nice work digging this one up.
I recently received an email from the 90-year-old daughter of Charlie Root, the game one starting pitcher. I sent her several blow-up frames from the film and she has identified the pitcher as her dad. Now that I have this input, I think the film is game one from October 8. Also, when I first posted the film, I didn't realize that the reel had been spliced out of order. Prior to 3:15, when you see the lefty pitchers, the film is from Flag Day 1930. At 3:15, the 1929 series starts.
Root a great pitcher- played in 3 Cub WS's
Hey look, a Sox fan with a totally original thought that we haven't heard 8,000 times before. Thanks for your input.
Well this was a pretty neat video to see. I am Cards fan first and Cubs fan second(yes it can happen). While new modern stadiums have their spot I do hope that Wrigley is held onto as long as possible. It is a beautiful park with a great atmosphere. I have attended a few games there now and besides for the random Cards bashing(to be expected to some extent) everything at the park was extremely nice.
thank you for posting this. i love the megaphone guy!
That would have been Pat Piper, the Wrigley Field PA announcer for 59 years, starting in 1916 until the year he died, 1974.
I love old movies like this.
I strongly believe Ken Burns would done whatever it took to make this footage part of the Baseball series on PBS.
Doubtful. Burns only used footage of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Red Sox, his two favorite teams.
East coast bias.He believed in that hatchet- man Al Stump's book on Ty Cobb and used a lot of that liar's writing on his otherwise fine documentary.
The Wall Street bankers caused the Great Depression just to break up the A's.
Thanks for not clogging the video with actual game footage.
MY DAD LIVED A FEW BLOCKS FROM THEIR,HE WENT TO LANE TECT IN 1929 WHEN I WAS A KID 1940S HE WOULD TAKE ME TO GAMES,GOOD OLD DAYS,IN THE 40S THE PARK ALMOST LOOKED THE SAME AS NOW.HIS HERO WAS HACK WILSON ,MINE WAS HANK SOUR...
Wrigley Field looks much the same except no IVY walls and the outfield bleachers were much closer. The scoreboard is lower in center field. Great movie footage.Bravo!
In this video at 5:30 it says this game was on either Oct. 8th or 9th 1929. I believe it is on the 8th. My reasoning for that is Howard Ehmke started the 1st game for the A's on the 8th. If you notice at about 4:47 & right after that, the pitcher is sidearmed.
Ehmke was a side armed pitcher & he threw the entire game. None of the other starters of the 1st two games were sidearmed pitchers & as far as I can tell.
Maybe someone else might be able to add something to this.
I think you're right -- it almost had to be Ehmke. Did you know Ehmke almost pitched consecutive no hitters in 1923? The only hit in the game after his no hitter was a hot shot that bounced off of third baseman Howie Shanks" chest on the first play of the game. Scorer Fred Lieb called it a hit. Ehmke then proceeded to shutout the Yanks without a hit, walking only one. People tried to pressure Lieb into changing the hit to an error, but he refused. Howie Shanks was traded to the Yankees a couple years later, and he told Lieb that he always felt that he should have made the play. Lieb discusses this in his book Baseball as I Have Known It.
He scouted cubs for 2 weeks and they could not hit his slowwwww stuff
I think he ko'd 15 cubs that day even v.that murderers row
Hornsny at 2nd Hack in cf
That Cubs line- up were a fastball smashing bunch.That's why Mack made Lefty Grove a reliever for the Series.
GREAT historical footage...Thank you for posting !
the Mack Attack, greatest comeback in post season history STILL ❤
Starting around 3:19 the footage cuts to game one of the 1929 Series on October 8, 1929. Looking from behind home plate, we first see Cubs pitcher Charlie Root pitching to the first batter in the series in the top of the first, Athletics second baseman Max Bishop. The film cuts right as he's about to ground out to first base. Then we cut to the bottom of the first, with Athletics submarine pitcher Howard Ehmke pitching. The batter is likely Norm McMillan, the Cubs third baseman.
The 3B player the only flaw in that monster Cub line-up
You are correct: the first part of the film is from the spring of 1930, on Flag Day, when they hoisted the pennant that they won the previous fall.
However, the World Series footage IS there, and starts at the 3:14 mark.
Fantastic video!
HUGE CROWD !
Why can’t they play this at night in late October or early November, and have a match up of wild card also ran teams? Why does this have to be a match up of regular season pennant winners just because they are the best team in each league?
And why can’t they drag these games out 3 hours plus so they can get 10 or 20:Geico commercials in?
What is the matter with these people?
Great comment, Robby! I'm with you!
Me three!
Yeah, they act like 154 games isn’t enough to determine who goes to the WS. We gotta have two extra series that give undeserving teams a shot to find lightning in a bottle and upset the team that did the work all season long
"Pssst! Hey! All of you! You're about to go broke!"
This is amazing. Too bad ESPN Classic shows nothing but Boxing, Bowling, Pool and Poker :( There are many classic games from the 1960's through the 1980's they could be showing. Thanks for posting this treasure.
Thanks. You should see the actual transfer (as opposed to the fuzzy UA-cam version). The film was in excellent shape.
Try uploading it again, now that UA-cam has HD quality
And you could put Flag Day at the end this time
@@jonnywishbone17 I long ago restored this video, removing dirt and sharpening. I could re-upload but I can't put the same video on the same URL, so I'd have to start the view count all over again.
@@johnmeyer77 okay, just a thought
One of the best A's teams ever. Still it's amazing the the same Yankee team that was so completely dominate the two prior years just fell apart that year.
The pitching staff got old.
Look at the 1932 Yankees pitching.. Almost all different than 1928.
Think A's were in 3 straight, like '09
I find it unfortunate that there was no video coverage to speak of in those days. Today we can see every little feature in a game from nine different angles and in slow and stop motion. Not so back then. In game one of the '29 Series, the A's great slugger Jimmie Foxx hit a tremendous blast over the bleachers in left-center. One of the pitchers in the A's bullpen said, "We sat in the bullpen and watched that ball fly for two innings!" Such a pity that things like that have been lost forever.
I am a White Sox fan, but I have always liked Wrigley Field (And miss old Comiskey Park). This is a cool Video. I bet Capone was in the stands somewhere.
A few months after St.Valentine's Day Massacre,7 blocks down Clark St.
Amazing.
100% certain, yes, it was Wrigley. You can use Google image search and find pics from this era and see the huge centerfield scoreboard. Also, look at the buildings in right field. Many of them still stand.
Gannable...The Phil A's were certainly an outstanding team...however I was a friend of Waite Hoyt who pitched for the 1931 A's as well as the Yankees of the 1920's. I once asked him to compare the '31 A's to the '27 yankees and he emphatically told me the Yankees were far superior !
Thanks for very interesting historical footage. The more things change, the more they stay the same. It's clear to see though, that the game was played differently and you can't really compare stats from then to the modern era...though it is fun.
Connie Mack's 1929-31 Philadelphia A's teams never get the credit they deserve, but they rank with the greatest teams of all time. The'29 A;s pitching and hitting equal the 27 yuckees and surpass them in several categories
Steve Swangler "Yuckees" lol, good luck in high school. I agree though that the 1929-31 A's are underrated, if not for Pepper Martin's basepath rampage in 1931 they'd have won 3 straight. And unlike the 1910-1914 teams that Mack broke up for reasons that will always be debated, I think he really would have liked to keep the 1929-31 team together. But the Depression made that impossible.
+Steve Swangler The 1929-1931 Philadelphia A's were arguably the greatest team ever seen in baseball.
@@pilsudski36 Sorry, no.
Yanks were better than the A'ss...
The Yankees second great dynasty (the DiMaggio Dynasty) was made possible by the fact that their two biggest rivals in the early 30's (A's and Senators) had to sell off most of their good players because of the Great Depression.
The flag day footage looks like it was shot on Friday, June 20, 1930. I see that the schedule on the scoreboard has all the teams that played each other on that date, the crowd looks like about 35,000 (the reported attendance for that day) and the Cubs were out of town on actual flag day (June 14).
I notice if you look carefully at about 3:50 into it, when facing the right field stands after the flag has been hoisted, you can see an El train going by between the houses on Sheffield.
No, this is DEFINITELY Wrigley field. You can find still photos from that era that shows this old scoreboard, and the buildings in the outfield are the same as now.
"This looks like both Game 1 & 2 judging the 2 distinctive camera angles on the 3rd base side."
I thought so too when I transferred it. Also, the shots in the middle look like people in line to get IN, rather than leaving. I think the sun is different as well.
Lucky person to have gone to both games! And just ten days later, the stock market would crash ...
According to a comment left six years ago, "The man with the megaphone is none other that Pat Pieper, legendary PA announcer at Wrigley until 1974."
I believe that's Howard Ehmke pitching at the 5;10 mark. He was a surprise 1st game starter for the series, who was gong to be released before the end of the season but asked Mr Mack if he could just pitch in one world series game indicating that he had one good game left in his arm ..Mack took a gamble and it paid off. It's a great story. Now Connie Macks great grandson is a US Senator
Fascinating. Thanks for posting.
Interesting tidbit. Notice on the scoreboard where Cubs playing Boston (Braves), the Cubs were listed first. Until around 1938, the home team had the choice of batting first or not.
Really? That's fascinating. I wonder why any team would ever choose to bat first?
The rule was adopted in 1950. The home team chose to bat 1st in the old days to have first crack at the new ball.
Thanks!
Really?
Well I’ll be fucked😮. I feel like I should’ve known that!!
Thank you so much for sharing.
tHANK yOU for sharing this!
Awesome video
Yes, I think so. As I recall, Shibe Park (latter Connie Mack Stadium) had a fence in right field, not bleachers.
For that time, this is amazing quality video.
Film 📽 Video tape wasn't invented until the early 1960's 🤔
I received an email that explains several mysteries. This clip is apparently not in chronological order. The first part is Flag Day, 1930, the season AFTER the World Series. The ceremony ends with the NL championship pennant hoisting. The emailer used the scoreboard to verify it was Flag Day -- those teams did play that day. Later, you see the World Series bunting; this section is definitely the 1929 World Series. Still don't know if it is game 1 or 2.
Interesting to see the layout of Wrigley Field compared to today. No ivy covered wall or high scoreboard.
Wow wrigley looked different, but yet the same, at the same time. What definitely hasn't changed are the buildings on waveland and the other streets past the outfield.
Houses outside Wrigley Field still there today, for the most part.
There's a greater span of time between now and when went to my first Cubs game, then there is between that fist visit and the World Series above. 52 - 41.
Bill Kashatus wrote a good book, “Connie Mack’s ‘29 Triumph.” It’s a very good, well-researched book about how that team was brought together & sold off after a few years (the Mack “MO”). Kashatus also offers excellent stats comparing ‘29 Athletics to ‘27 Yankees (“Murderers Row), & showing that the Athletics were a much better squad (hitting, pitching, fielding, all of it) over several years.
This was answered a few months ago (read comments below). Someone figure out that the first part of the film is Flag Day 1930 (AFTER the World Series), but the later part of the film IS the World Series (note the banners).
"That's not the moon up there. That's a shot Foxx hit off of me."
- Lefty Gomez
That is pretty darn cool.
The short clips of Hack Wilson may be the only known video in existence of the Hall of Famer, which is surprising. It is almost certainly Wilson .... the man was on 5'6" and literally had no neck which is evident in the video clip.
The first few minutes of marching and hoisting the 1929 pennant were taken on June 21, 1930, during a doubleheader against the Boston Braves, along with some of the game action shots.
This is some fantastic footage. What's that big black circle on the backs of the A's' jerseys? The A's weren't wearing numbers in 1929, so maybe it's some kind of logo?
Hope, the members of the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society have seen this clip.
I liked when they raised the Pennant...They should do that now a days..Thank you for the Upload and which stadium is this..it looks cavernous..not like Wrigley?
When I first posted the film, I didn't realize that the film was splice out of sequence. Thus, the first part of the film posted here is actually from Flag Day 1930. This was in June, AFTER their World Series appearance the previous October. They hoist the pennant from the previous year as part of the ceremonies. Then, the film cuts (at about 3:15) back in time to October 8, 1929 and the first game of the World Series.
John Meyer on the first part of the film, why does the scoreboard show Cubs at Boston
@@davidbondehagen1616 I posted this video immediately after I transferred it for a client and did not realize, until after I posted it, that the first couple of minutes are NOT the World Series but are instead from the "Flag Day" game played the following June when the Cubs hoisted the pennant that they won the previous fall. So, the scores on the scoreboard are from other games being played that day. Obviously there would have been no other scores during the World Series game.
So, chronologically, the clip is out of order. Read my description (below the video) for more information about this, along with other information readers discovered after I posted the film, all those years ago.
Connie started a junkballer Emke to start Game 1( he had scouted the Cubs for 2 weeks).His submarine slowball mystified the Cub's Murderers Row- a shrewd move.
I like seeing the National League Scoreboard. I think the teams I can make out are Boston (Braves), New York (Giants), Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn (Dodgers), Cincinnati (Reds), Philadelphia (Phillies) and St. Louis (Cardinals)
On this date in 1916 {Apr. 20th} the Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 11 innings
Would win the World Series A CENTURY later.
Great video. Wow! Wrigley sure has changed!! Where are the bricks and ivey?
You're checking the wrong schedule. The footage I am referring to shows the Cubs raising their 1929 National League championship pennant, so it has to be Flag Day, 1930. On the scoreboard, you see the Cubs are playing Boston (Braves), the Pirates are hosting the Giants, the Dodgers are in Cincinnati, and the Phillies are in St. Louis playing the Cardinals.
In those other games, I am assuming the home team is on the bottom. However, why is "Cubs" ABOVE "Boston if this is Wrigley Field?
jeez that incredible and beautiful. so true and serene. theres nothing more pure than baseball, especially old time baseball. how many more stands were there in Wrigley compared to now?