LAST COMISKEY (Part Three) - Story of the 1990 White Sox and the Final Season at Comiskey Park
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- Опубліковано 29 гру 2024
- Last of a three-part baseball series telling the story of the 1990 White Sox and the final season played at Comiskey Park, featuring interviews with players, media, vendors, security, and more, and features home video of the old ballpark and its many nooks, crannies and characters.
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Featuring:
Organist:
Nancy Faust
Players:
Ozzie Guillen
Jack McDowell
Ron Kittle
Donn Pall
Dave Gallagher
Vance Law
Phil Bradley
Bobby Thigpen
Lance Johnson
Scott Radinsky
Wayne Edwards
Greg Hibbard
Executive:
Dan Evans
Scoreboard Crew:
David Marran
Media:
Tom Shaer
Kenny McReynolds
Chuck Garfien
Rich King
Cheryl Raye Stout
Mark Curnutte
Nick Murawski
Vendors:
Lloyd Rutzky
Mark Reiner
David Rugendorf
Security/Ushers:
John Brudnak
Matt Biscan
Historians:
Mark Liptak
Frank Budreck
Architect:
Brian Powers (Bandbox Ballparks)
Lifelong Sox Fans:
Robert Gordon
Stephanie Walters
Peter Wilt
Greg Novak
Doug Peterson
Thank you everybody for the incredibly kind comments about our documentary. Also, a lot of fun to read your memories of Comiskey Park.
On May 13 in Hyde Park, we will be hosting a live (abbreviated) screening followed by a Q&A with special guests Nancy Faust, Donn Pall, Wayne Edwards and others. See the following link for details -- hope to see some of you there.
LINK: www.eventbrite.com/e/last-comiskey-a-white-sox-movie-screening-with-special-guests-tickets-586402364257
From a Braves fan born and raised in Tigers territory, this documentary is a treasure. Extremely well done and I loved every minute!
It'd be cool if somebody did a cool documentary like this about old Tiger Stadium, or Fulton County stadium if you're a braves fan. It's crazy to think that the white sox and tigers have been playing in the same stadium since Comiskey and Tiger stadium.. but Atlanta on the other hand has played in 3 stadiums within the same time frame and had 2 brand new stadiums built. Fulton County Stadium, Turner Field, and Truist Park.
You need to release this as a DVD. You've done an exellent job telling the story that needed to be told.
I sure hope they do, release this on DVD
You can get the DVD at www.LastComiskey.com
I’m an Oakland A’s fan and I have so much respect for Chicago White Sox fans and their love of this stadium, the team, and the fans of the White Sox community….. thank you for this wonderful video, bravo!
I fricken hated Dave Stewart. But, I did respect him. I do miss old Comiskey
@@Harp4803 He torched the White Sox again in the 1993 ALCS, as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays.
But's it's not easy to love the Oakland ( Mausoleum) Coliseum)
@@michaelleroy9281 I grew up in Detroit and attended a bunch of games at old Tiger Stadium, and while it was an enjoyable experience as a kid, nothing (baseball-wise) matches the years I was a season ticket holder for the A's and going to the Coliseum. Total blast (especially the day games on Wed). And while people bag on the old cement girl, it was like enjoying a ballgame at a dive bar. Totally different experience versus that of going across the bay and seeing the Giants at AT&T park (missed out on seeing a game at Candlestick which I was always curious about what that experience was like). Section 104, row 11, seat 11 . . .Will always be etched in my mind. Take care.
I'm a lifelong Southside Sox fan and have been waiting for something like this. It brought tears to my eyes more than once......Ken Burns could not have done a better job.
This was just wonderful. I lost my dad last year with whom i grew up in that old park. in 1990 i graduated high school and soon after remember seeing the ruins for the new park. You just made a middle aged man cry and i cant thank you enough.
That makes my day, truly. Thank you for the kind words. Glad it brought back memories with your dad -- like baseball does for so many of us.
Never clicked a video so fast.
Same here!
Wasn't alive til 95, so this history is new to me. Didn't know the last year was such a dream.
I thought it was just me
@@coasterlyfemedia4413 im a met fan who stumpled upon this last week. i couldnt wait for this upload such great work done by the people who made this
@reaaaron124 I was born in 95 as well. My dad was born and raised in Bridgeport, has been telling me stories all my life about Old Comiskey.
Getting to see all those stories visualized has been special. Loved every second of this series.
beautiful. went to my first CWS game in [old] comiskey in 1960. took our sons to their 1st WS game in 1990 - vs yankees, the no hitter - free bat day. thousands of kids banging their bats on the railings. we sat in the upper deck, 1st row, right behind 3rd base. beautiful memories of comiskey park 1990, brought back so vividly and warmly by this documentary.
What a delight. I've never been to old Comiskey (or new!), I'm not from Chicago, and I am not a White Sox fan. But I watched all three parts of the documentary and felt camaraderie and sympathy and even nostalgia! One of the speakers hit it right on the head by saying you feel young again. Terrific.
Wow! As a Brewers fan, I tip my cap to everyone involved in this project of love of this ballpark and of baseball.
And to you, Nancy: God Bless you richly. Thank you for sharing your heart with everyone who heard you. 😊
I want to thank you guys again for doing all of this and putting all this together I'm going to watch this series probably a thousand times it brings me back to my childhood so much thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. I grew up a Bridgeport kid always hanging out by the park.
Lifelong Reds fan here, who lived in Chicago 2004-2009. Went to countless games at the new one, but would have given my right arm to have seen the old Comiskey. I'll never forget 2005. Great fans and a great ball club. My AL team for life! Amazing documentary as well. Very, very well done👏
Sitting on my desk in a case is a ball that a member of the Baltimore Orioles hit into the left field upper deck in foul territory at old Comiskey in 1987. There is still that lime green paint smudged from where it impacted those old wooden seats. Although I don’t remember the player who hit it…or the exact details of the games, I remember my father taking me to those games in the 80s and feeling so in awe of old Comiskey. The smell of the food, the wet cement concourse and of course, my first experience with trough style bathrooms. I remember my dad enjoying beers shirtless while I wore my glove hoping to catch a pop-up or a fly ball. He let me try the speed pitch and bought me hot dogs and cotton candy. I don’t cherish the gameplay while we attended, I cherish the memories of that place more than anything. Thank you for these videos. They bring it all back and make me realize how great times were back then.
I remember etching my name in the wall there as a kid in ‘87, thinking it would be there forever. I spent so many summer days there. Comiskey Park will always have a special place in my heart.
I still remember my dads exact route to the old ballpark- harlem north to I 55 north, to Ashland ave south, to 39th st east, to northbound Normal ave. Park on the street there, walk to the ballpark. it was heaven.
This was beyond great. I cried at the end. I still have a photo of my dad and his brother 1932 playing baseball in front of their house which was where 3rd base is now., with the unpainted park in the background. I also still have about a dozen prints of an awesome panoramic shot taken on the last day which Rob Gallas gave me. It list all the players on the team, taken by Michael Lawton American Pangraphics. I still miss the old park. But not the horse trough urinals.
you lived where gurnteed rte field currently is
Thanks for the memories, I'm 71 living in TX now. Lived in Chgo at the time and spent a lot of time at Comiskey park with friends. Loved the picnic area in left field. Michael A Brown, Frisco, TX.
Thanks so much for bringing back so many cherished memories of ball games with our Dad and Mom. They're smiling from above and giving you high fives
I sorely ache for the days I could walk into the greatest old baseball cathedral in my backyard. Thank you very very much for this series. You resurrected memories of manic smiles and melancholic sighs in some of the greatest days of my life
As a Rangers fan, this is my favorite classic ballpark. I wished Comiskey was preserved. This place was baseball. That’s how a ballpark should be designed- for baseball. I’ve learned so much about Comiskey Park through this documentary. Y’all deserve some award for this masterpiece!
I feel the same way about the now old home of the Rangers- The Ballpark in Arlington. It’s a building, sure. But it became a part of me. While I like Globe Life Field, to me, it will never beat The Ballpark in Arlington.
I have to admit by the end of this i was balling my eyes out.. So many fond memories of the old park . Thanks for doing this
From a lifelong Giants fan raised in SF by my Cub-fan Chicago Mom, THANK YOU for a wonderful & fun film!
August 12, because of off-and-on rain that day game was not played. Gates opened up, Nancy played on and on, players hung around but it was not called
till about 6:30p. - six hour rain delay.
Great job with this series guys. I was 18 in 1990 and remember being at the game against the A's where we held a 4-1 lead in the 8th and ended up losing 5-4 late in the year. Too bad there was no wild card that year this team could've definitely won it all!
This is a must watch for Chicago White Sox fans, and baseball fans in general.
This documentary need an award at least from Chicago media. It has brought tears😢😢 to my eyes literally being a 50 yr old growing up there as a kid every season....Thank you for this gem!!!
So kind, thank you!
Thank you! It was a special place and 90 was a special team. Great memories!
This series is so beautiful. It is a stark reminder of how blue collar a baseball game used to be. I grew up going to the Kingdome, and the atmosphere was just so different. I enjoy going to the new ballpark alright, but it's definitely not the same. I really felt a lot of emotions watching this episode. Thank you for this.
Wonderful documentary! I was only 9 when it was gone but I remember having a dog with my Grandpa and Dad in the left field picnic area! Nothing beat that memory!
Thanks to those who put this together. Brings back a lifetime of memories❤️⚾️❤️⚾️
Just amazing work and thank you for this gift to all Sox fans!
Way to go, Nancy! Playing "Never Can Say Goodbye" over the closing credits.
From a Reds fan. This is just amazing. All 3 parts. Loved that the Sox destroyed Cocky Stewart. He said the same garbage about the 90
What a great ballpark Cominskey was. Thanks so much for this great film.
Absolute treasure. Thank you for making this! Amazing series!!!!
All the great memories I had with my dad at the park God Rest his soul thank you
What a great documentary! I've always loved Ozzie Guillen and listening to Nancy, the Great Dame of Comiskey on the organ. Wish they could have saved it the way Fenway was saved.
Thank you for making this really enjoyed it
Beautiful documentary!! I absolutely loved every second of each of the 3 parts. Thank You for the memories.
Compliments to the filmmaker on this documentary. I never visited old Comiskey but this really gave a great insight to a classic ballpark.
Thank you to everyone involved in making this fantastic series. I still have in my bedroom drawer, a foul ball Carlos May hit in the very early 70s , that my Dad caught at a home game at Comiskey when I was 12. Thank you all so much !
I'm 46 years old and I'm crying watching this I from Bridgeport and I miss that ballpark big time I still call this whatever they call it I still call it Comiskey Park I'll never change the name never
loved this entire 3 part series. Grew up in Evergreen Park. Hopefully you can make more when Reinsdorf kicks the bucket and the Sox have an owner with a spine and a sense of morals for the first time in its 100+ years.
I’m sad this is ending!!! Thank you so much for an incredible documentary. It’s only right that you make a documentary about the new Comisky/US Cellular/ guaranteed rate.
What a great documentary! Thank you so much! Although I'm a life-long Braves fan in Tennessee, I always enjoyed following the Sox on WGN.
I had tears 😢in my eyes watching this magnificent tribute to Old Comiskey Park. I spent so much of my youth there. ❤❤❤
This was so well done. I love that park. I loved hearing Andy the Clown again, the feeling of everything was just so real. That season was amazing, as a 12yo, my father had season tickets, I still have dreams wandering through every nook and cranny in that place. I miss it so much, what a treasure this video is. Thank you.
Loved this documentary! Brings back tons of great memories from the Southside. My first MLB game ever was at Comiskey-1968 vs the Angels. ( I was at Game 2 of the ALCS against them in 2005, too!) My last Comiskey game was 9/15/90- ChiSox vs BoSox. I still have a chunk of the wall I pulled off from the Picnic area. (Park was really in bad shape, then) I went to HS down the street at DeLaSalle. We used to all cheer in the classroom if we heard the scoreboard go off, lol. Miss those days! Making new memories now with my daughter and grandkids at the new Sox park! Thanks for this!
I was at the last night game! The fireworks after the game was spectacular!
Thank you for the memories. 😢😊
Ryan's start before that game in Chicago was a no hitter. I decided to go to that game(his next start) which was game 2 of a doubleheader. However, as mentioned in the video, there were numerous rain delays before and during first game, and game 2 didn't start until after 10 pm or close to that. I was tired and wanted to leave, but no way was I leaving until Ryan gave up a hit. The Sox got a hit in first or second inning and gave Nolan Ryan a rare butt kicking. Throwing inside and hitting batters was something Ryan did too often. He was good enough to succeed without that stuff(throwing inside OK, but not hitting batters). I remember him several years later brushing back hitters in an All Star game. One of those 100 MPH fastballs could have found someone's head, and control was his major weakness throughout his career. I wouldn't be shocked if Ryan is all time leader in walks and or HBP.
And the next year (I think) was when he pummeled Ventura after he charged the mound.
All I can say is, Thank God Wrigley still stands...
I remember going to a Sox opening day game in 1978 and another game or two w my South Sider ex. Then in 1991 I went to the new park as a guest of Ameritech. We parked close to the old ballpark, which was kind of halfway torn down. I took a few photos I still have.
That it was in tatters next to the new park felt wrong to me then and it still does. I did not enjoy my day in the new park at all. The seats were way too far away from the game. Spoiled rotten forever by Chicago's legacy baseball parks.
Thanks again for making this awesome tribute to what was, and what remains, the home of the White Sox for so many of us.
If this were Wrigley. I could not watch. It has its own special feel that has been compromised, but at least it still stands.
Thank again. You captured it all.🌠
Excellent job!! You really did turn back time and brought me back to my youth…
I can write about 50 paragraphs pouring out my feelings about my love of baseball and it's history. To watch this 3 part series tapped into all of those feelings. I love it. I sit here thinking back over the times I went to watch my home team in their stadium (since torn down) with my dad and my friends. Nostalgia is real. Feelings for a building real. The memories fresh. The players ARE still young in my 60 year old mind . Thank you for making this. Outstanding.
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 THANK YOU!!
Man, the homeruns at old Comiskey looked so majestic. Especially 5:02 the footage of "the little hurt" Craig Grebeck hitting a 3 run shot off of Nolan Ryan. I haven't looked up the dimensions, but just looking at center field in the video I can understand why they called it a pitchers park.
Very nice job. 👌 I grew up in Kansas City, and lived and died with the Royals. I remember seeing TV games from Chicago, and couldn't understand why the infield looked blue as opposed to the outfield grass when seen on TV. Turns out the answer was the infield had artificial turf from previous ownership. Bill Veeck, when he re-purchased the Sox, had the plastic removed and restored the field to all-natural grass. Colorful character he was, and I guess one thing he had done was a shower for fans in the outfield bleachers. Also he was dressed in Revolutionary War clothes to replicate a famous painting, hobbling out to the mound with 2 others to present the colors for the national anthem. I'll bet you miss him as much as that ballpark. Economics of the game were his demise, but it was a joy to see him carrying on with those crazy stunts.
This was fantastic. Takes me back to being a little kid and going to games in the late 80s. The smell the green grass and the sound of Nancy on that organ were so special.
Absolutely loved this. My father would have too. Thank you so much.
This was fantastic, thank you so much!!! I wonder if Reinsdorf privately thinks the Sox should have never left Comiskey? So much history!
What a very well done series. Every baseball fan should watch this documentary.
As a lifelong Dodger fan growing up with an iconic park, this reminds me of my childhood and all the great memories.
I wish I could’ve visited there once.
Much respect to the White Sox fans.
Thanks for doing this documentary . It brought back many great memories of my trips to Comiskey Park
Richie Allen was one of the best White Sox players ever!
my all time favorite ball player.
You mean Dick Allen, don't you? He insisted on NOT being called "Richie" when he was with the White Sox.
Yep. And I've also loved the way White Sox fans treated Dick well and with respect. Very cool stuff.
I have a soft spot for Carlos May, but Dick Allen is a very close number two. 🙂
@@CosmoG.Spacely What about Walter "No Neck" Williams? Very good hitter as well as very good outfielder, in the spacious expanses of Comiskey Park's outfield.
Really amazing documentary all the way through! Thanks for bringing back those memories--went to a few games that year as an 11 yo with my Dad and Grandpa, and little brother, including that 'no-hitter'
Thanks so much for putting this together, it was so well done. It brought back so many memories I had tears in my eyes. I am the same as Rich King. I have a Sox man cave with a lot of Sox memorabilia and there are days when I do what he does, I go into that room take everything in and think back at the good times I had at Comiskey. I can actually feel the good times I had there. I like the new park , but I will never forget the old one. Thanks "Ritchie" for keeping the Sox in Chicago. I wish I could have met you to tell you how much that means to me.
The editing is top notch. When the players talk about a certain at bat or pitch sequence, the video footage is there.
Thank you for that - appreciate it!
Loved this park, meant the world to me. Lots of memories! Thank you for this documentary!!
One of the most entertaining as well as emotional videos I’ve seen in years
As a Sox fan I was on board with the new stadium and there was nothing wrong with the new stadium until Camden Yard was built. Then it was like “uh oh….whom ever built the new Sox stadium looks like they forgot to turn off the cement mixer!”
I have the fondest memories of Old Comiskey ❤ saw Ron Kittle hit one on the roof
Funny, somebody started cutting onions during the last fifteen minutes of me watching Part III.
Let's gooooo youuuuuu WHITE SOX!
Outstanding documentary!! I’m a Michigan resident and felt the powerful history because we, too, have been through it with Tiger Stadium and I’m not even a Tigers fan. This was incredible! Thank you!
This was superb. Just superb. All three parts. ❤
Wish I could have seen a game here. What a beautifully done documentary!
Yes, thank you for this. I watched this in my comiskey park seat , with my southside hit men cushion. I remember going to the last game with my family and people breaking the wooden seats for souvenirs. Glad the sox won. Have the ticket stub and the box score i cut out of the sun times to this day. Along with the the page i ripped out out the phone book from comiskey , of bill veecks home #.
God bless you guys. P.S. If you ever decide to do more on this subject, please reach out. I have alot of photos.
Thank you so much for this it's the best sports documentary I think I've ever seen
What a great series. My seats were up 4 rows from the walkway that ringed the lower deck and if there was a man on 1st they would show us on tv with the camera from 3rd when showing the runner on 1st. In this they never really showed that angle but I was hoping that I would be in this LOL :) Great job guys.
Thank you so much for making this, I take my kids to new Comiskey and I hope they have the memories I did of old Comiskey park with my dad.
This was an outstanding documentary, you did a wonderful job putting this all together. Kudos to everyone involved for helping to bring back memories of the ol ballpark.
deserving of an academy award nomination
Wow!! Flash me way back ❤ those were the days ⚾️
Oh boy....there must have been something in my eye as I watched this. Thank you for producing this precious jewel. Please make a DVD available.
This was so good I didn't want it to end. Thank you so much for doing this.
Why didn't I want this series to end? But I guess like all good things do come to a close. Thank you so much for making such a wonderful documentary of the old ball park and the 1990 season.
At least it will be enjoyable to watch it over and over again here on UA-cam for years to come!
I was only 11 years old when the old stadium came down and that time I wasn't a baseball fan but what i remember were the memories with my dad and grandpa being at the old ballpark. The the ice cream bars, myself jumping over the old green wooden seats, and getting promotional stuff like a kid's glove, kid's batting gloves, and my personal favorite a 1989 promotional binder celebrating the 30th anniversary of the '59 go-go white sox, which I still do have and have collected a ton of sox sport newspaper clippings in it from over the years.
One last thing, thank you so much for showing that old sport beat writers talking in a smoked filled room around a round table. I remember that so very well and never knew what that was all about as a kid. It wasn't until I started working for an auto repair shop in Elmhurst where i got to meet Mr. Bill Gleason himself. He was customer where i worked and he was a true sports man and loved his Notre Dame football and his White Sox. He drove a big ol' heavy chevy caprice that was filled with cigar smoke and every new baseball season I would ask him how will 'our' white sox will do this year he would give a smirk and ask 'what do you think they'll do?' And then he'll ask me ' so how is that old coot Tim McClary doing these days?'
Well, that's another story for another time..
Tremendous job! Fantastic documentary! Thanks to everyone that helped pull this fine piece history together.
Very well done! You have brought back many old memories.
Walking up from the concourse at a night game as a kid, was like a dream! The lights, green grass, scoreboard etc. Kind of what you'd imagine Heaven being like as a kid.
The "new" park doesn't offer it. The concourse you can see the field just walking around.
Nice job, everyone. That was really great
When I was a kid we would go to games and my parents would let us wonder the park , go all over .Behind the scoreboard , down by picnic area , we went all over the place . Only thing was we had to be back by middle of 7th to hear Harry sing
Thank you. This was beautiful. Many good memories.
Thank you for watching.
Thanks for the memories.
Thank you for this series..
This took me right back to sitting in those stands with my father and my grandfather. Very well done! All three parts. ❤️❤️
Beautiful job- what a great ride!⚡️
Such a great documentary. I’m not a Sox fan but this is fantastic. Much appreciated.
Thank you!
Amazing job guys! I am an Indians fan and hate the CWS but this documentary made me a little fan of them. Absolutely outstanding
Terrific series. Glad to contribute to this documentary.
Amazing film. I still have that last game at Comiskey vs Seattle recorded on VHS somewhere.
This was an awesome series. Amazing job!
just ....... GREATNESS ......... well done
very good. I grew up just south of there. could hear the fireworks after homeruns