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RichardLillard1
02-24-2007, 07:43 PM
This is another one I feel is long overdue.
Does anyone else miss seats this close?
Sometime in Comiskey's final season(s).
Knick9
02-24-2007, 07:50 PM
This is another one I feel is long overdue.
Does anyone else miss seats this close?
Sometime in Comiskey's final season(s).
Nice picture. Yeah, I absolutely miss seats being that close. You're taking giant leaps backwards with the HOK formation. Keep the pictures rolling.
RichardLillard1
02-24-2007, 07:59 PM
July of '79 it was hot and they wanted nothing to do with disco.....
Elvis has a great view from the field on his website of this night, maybe we can talk him into posting it. :rolleyes:
Note the "Disco Sucks!" banner hanging from the upperdeck in left center.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a286/RichardLillard1/55958836_e84603ece6July1979DiscoDem.jpg
From the cars in the parking lot this looks to be 40's sometime.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a286/RichardLillard1/StadiumsComiskeyPark_photo1.jpg
The Southside's ganglord takes in a game. Notice how he and his "son" (he reportedly took a stand in out into public with him) are surrounded by guards, he had more protection than Calvin Coolidge!
Also note how the bodyguard behind him in the second picture is reaching for his gun after being startled by a vendor!
Sorry the second one is so small.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a286/RichardLillard1/35978.jpg
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a286/RichardLillard1/AutografiBaseball.jpg
I bet after the new stadium opened a lot of Southsiders felt ripped off.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a286/RichardLillard1/10138606.jpg
That's all for now, more to come.
Richard
RichardLillard1
02-24-2007, 08:01 PM
Nice picture. Yeah, I absolutely miss seats being that close. You're taking giant leaps backwards with the HOK formation. Keep the pictures rolling.
You know if a design company would just take a chance and find a way to build one with an over deck that went that far over the lower bowl while have the very small amounts of foul territory they have now I think it would be the most popular park in baseball.
Richard
Elvis
02-25-2007, 01:03 PM
You know if a design company would just take a chance and find a way to build one with an over deck that went that far over the lower bowl while have the very small amounts of foul territory they have now I think it would be the most popular park in baseball.
Richard
I'm working on it, Richard. ;)
RichardLillard1
02-25-2007, 01:24 PM
Work faster!! :crazy
Elvis
02-25-2007, 03:54 PM
The Babe takes a mighty swing in the 1st all star game!
Elvis
02-25-2007, 03:56 PM
Josh Gibson slides home in the east-west all-star game...
Elvis
02-25-2007, 03:57 PM
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Elvis
02-25-2007, 03:59 PM
1933 all star game....
Elvis
02-25-2007, 04:01 PM
The Green Bay Packers @ Comiskey. Rumor has it that this was Brett favre's 1st season. :laugh
Elvis
02-25-2007, 04:02 PM
1983 - A great year at Comiskey.
Elvis
02-25-2007, 04:03 PM
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Elvis
02-25-2007, 04:05 PM
Bill Veeck strikes again...1959. :crazy
Elvis
02-25-2007, 04:06 PM
Josh Gibson.........
Elvis
02-25-2007, 04:08 PM
Tom Terrific - opening day, 1986
Elvis
02-25-2007, 04:09 PM
Disco sucks donkey balls night, 1979.
Elvis
02-25-2007, 04:10 PM
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RichardLillard1
02-25-2007, 08:05 PM
Do you or does anyone have the picture of when Veeck put a midget in to pinch hit with the jersey number 1/4? Maybe it was 1/2, still funny.
Richard
Elvis
02-25-2007, 08:08 PM
Do you or does anyone have the picture of when Veeck put a midget in to pinch hit with the jersey number 1/4? Maybe it was 1/2, still funny.
Richard
http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/bloggraphics/10125965.jpg
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RichardLillard1
02-25-2007, 08:16 PM
That's great. Thanks Elvis.
Richard
RichardLillard1
02-25-2007, 11:36 PM
The Babe takes a mighty swing in the 1st all star game!
I would bet he probably fell over from that swing. I wonder if this was in the same at bat that he slugged the All-Star's first homer.
Brownie31
02-26-2007, 02:13 PM
Tuesday, April 19, 1938 Comiskey Park Chicago: Hank Greenberg, the Detroit Tigers' slugging first baseman, belts a home run in the fifth inning of the season opener between the White Sox and Tigers as Tony Rensa, White Sox catcher, and Umpire Cal Hubbard watch the feat. Despite Greenberg's heroics, the White Sox won the opener 4-3. (Corbis)
Brownie31
POLO GROUNDS 1957
03-10-2007, 07:41 PM
This is only a suggestion but the 2 comiskey park threads here in this forum maybe combined together.what do the moderators think. DONALD
Knick9
03-10-2007, 08:25 PM
Oh, so there was already one? Well, I wouldn't have a problem with a thread merge. Go ahead and do it, mods.