LAST COMISKEY - Story of the 1990 White Sox and the Final Season (slyt)

March 28, 2023 6:40 PM

LAST COMISKEY - Story of the 1990 White Sox and the Final Season (slyt) is a 3-part video series on the last season of old Comiskey Park in 1990. Interviews, photos, videos of players, fans, coaches, sportwriters, and stadium staff, this is a great homage to a beautiful old baseball park for the Chicago White Sox, focusing on the last year in 1990 (before it was torn down) and with a good amount of flashbacks to previous eras.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

posted by j810c (3 comments total)

For years Chicago had the two oldest baseball parks. I've never done it but could at least once a year attended two games in the same day.

I was born into Cubs fandom. A sickness. A sadness. But it was Cubs before Sox, for sure. But I bet I went to more Sox games, as so many of their games were night games.

When Harry Carey was fired by the Cardinals he spent maybe five years in the booth at Sox Park, for color and play-by-play with Jimmy Piersall. Harry was drunk by the sixth inning, Piersall sober, wound tight as a ten day clock -- that was baseball at its best as far as I ever experienced it. Piersall called Carey "Coach". Bill Veeck owned the Sox then, and Veeck was a master baseball showman, perfect for Comisky.

One perfect summer afternoon I saw The Eagles, Pablo Cruz, and Steve Miller as Sox park. I sat in the shade all the way until maybe half of the Eagles set, then want down and got right close to the stage, Joe Walsh maybe 25 feet away. (It's easy to get up close in open seating, just tap the guy and say "Hey, my friends are up there." and he'd gladly give way.

I'd been long gone from Chicago (and baseball, too) by the time they tore down Comisky park and built that ugly cereal bowl, no place to get out of the rain or the sun. Comisky was a great park, damn shame it was torn down.
posted by dancestoblue at 10:10 PM on March 28, 2023 [8 favorites]

Hazardous for disco, however.

We cling to Wrigley, lights and all, for dear life.
posted by skippyhacker at 5:59 AM on March 29, 2023 [1 favorite]

This is wonderful, thank you! I sent it to my partner who's a born white Sox fan. She loves the team and had heard a bunch of stories about the old park, having silent menu years working at the new one. I know she's going to love this
posted by Carillon at 7:12 PM on March 29, 2023