I totally relate, I was 12 at the time and was surprised at how much the AL really wanted to win this year.

Exactly

I agree totally. Although ABC was good too. I loved how they switched coverage of the WS, playoffs and all-star games. I was not accepting CBS when they got it. No disrespect to Jack Buck, Jim Kaat, etc. I ended up not watching CBS as much until the playoffs. I did more ESPN, TBS, WGN AND local coverage.

True

NBC and ABC for sure

7:32 Wow, I totally forgot that Carew was hitting .402 at the break in ‘83.

Fenway or Wrigley?

There are... Wrigley and Fenway

I think that people wish the older stadiums in general were still around. I personally grew up at Milwaukee County Stadium.🏟 I spent my spring and summers from 1977-1989 there. Even a few times in the 90's as well. I got to see Robin Yount's 3,000th hit. Iconic pitchers like Jim Palmer, Gaylord Perry, Nolan Ryan, Ron Guidry, Mike Caldwell, Lary Sorensen, and Moose Haas. Hitters like again Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Gorman Thomas, Ben Oglive, Cecil Cooper, and Jim Gantner. As well as other teams batters like Fred Lynn, Jim Rice, Thurman Munson(RIP), Reggie Jackson, Cecil Fielder, George Brett, Cal Ripken Jr., Rickey Henderson, Ken Griffey, Kirby Puckett, and so many others! The memories those older 🏟stadiums🏟 brought people are very special and bring back times of joy,😊 happiness, peace, and friends!😊 Tailgating, playing catch in the parking lot before the games. Eating those concession stand Hot 🌭 Dogs, AFTER you grilled out! LOL! Getting a group of buddies, loading up the car and heading to the ballpark! For some, not me, especially in the 70's, I was a kid, having a few 🍻🍺beers🍺🍻 as well as🍿popcorn🍿🥜peanuts🥜🍦ice-cream🍦, and🍬candy!🍭 Eating till your belly hurt! Or gassed out your buddies! 🙇‍♂️💥💨💩💨🤦‍♂️😯😮☹😟🥴🥴🥴🥵🤢🤢🤮🤮🚽 Meanwhile your buddies are 😇😅🤣😂😁🤗🤫🤫🤐🙄🤠😎🥸 and one other is searching for the culprit or culprits?🧐🧐.......then...... 🙇😖💥💨🙇‍♀️😖💥💨🙇‍♂️😖💥💨💨💩💩💩💨💨😳😡🤬🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🤢🤮🤮🚽🤮🤮🚽🤮🤮🚽 HOW CAN YOU NOT LOOK BACK AT THOSE MEMORIES WITHOUT FOND ADORATION AND LOVE AND AFFECTION?💓💗💟💕💞💕💝❣❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

Jewel Clark He just passed away. 😢

Nunya Business I’m confused.

@@afwagner, my condolences..

Robert Sprouse thanks

Is that you in the brewers hat?

Yes the best rest in peace vin I miss you

what is a squibber?

And the mustaches

Interleague play killed both the AS Game & World Series.....

Dave Steib, the starting AS game pitcher -- in 1983.... had a 17-12 record on a crappy team, had an era of 3.04 over 278 innings and 4 shutouts... took a no hitter into the 8th inning, and got ZERO Cy Young award votes from any voters. Oh, and he lapped the field in WAR, with a pitching WAR of 7.0. No other pitcher in the league was even in his neighborhood. LaMarr Hoyt, the Cy young winner had a WAR of 3.7, only 260 IP, and an ERA of 3.66. AS game voting is where fans decide who's the best. Cy Young voting is where baseball writers decide who they like, not who's the best. LOL

It still amazes me at how the crowd was so into the game. These guys played to win, and the AL was tired of losing.

​@@Paulmancieri67it was a very different world back then.

He was twice 1 out away in back to back starts too from a no hitter in 1988 and in 89 1 out away from a perfect game.

Those ‘80s Toronto teams were stacked.

We Detroit tigers fans Knew it :P

Agreed, but they didn't win it all until the next decade. @@richsleyster2656

Orioles fans knew it too! We played you 13X yearly until they changed alignment....

Next year was Better :) as We Detroiters got to watch the Best Start in Baseball History ever and is still Untouched to this day ,, and hey the World series win wasnt too bad either , Since you bring up the Orioles , my fav was the 79 series with them Vs the Pirates . so many greats on both teams !

Agreed i hate how loud the syadiums have become w guaudy led boards its tv everywhere it looks so awful , like the rule for al parks were that they had to be clean to the eye, and appealing to look at. Parks are our churches and cathedrals to this game, which is representive of life of course, but thats not the poont. Even when oriole park was built they had to ask special permission to put ads on the wall, tasefull limited ads with old style borders. And eli jacobs and co were granted it. Now its silly...

While I agree with the gist of what you said, in this game the organist isn’t “just a guy” or a guy at all for that matter, it’s Nancy Faust, the under appreciated greatest ballpark organist that ever lived

Baseball is first and foremost a business. Owners are doing what they think appeals to the customers. I personally think the changes they are making to the game are not good.

i think it's Not A Guy, it'sThe GR8 NANCY FAUST!~just saw @Mr.E723 was on that! She is 1 of The GREATS! I was here w/ my GR8 Friend WES SALSBURY("x~Lions of iL Govenor) were here, i brought special Brownies & We Were in Upper Deck Last Row so our smoke would not goto any 1~We never aquired Glaucma!, i think a Chicagoan i came for Yaz (Yaz's GR8 Fielding here!). i Live near Wrigley but now could care Less since 1988 & ESPECIALLY WITH THEIR DESIGNER NEIHBORHOOD & MOST CUBS FANS NOW are Snobs & $elfish Dorks!. Always been a WSox Fan. Wes Lived by Wrigley & walked to Games after Shrink Gig, Wes is a Big Man & Fan!~X wife Linda~(Aka "The PineApple Pricess~Via Mocker, & it fits from Hawaii Nihuo~sp Island) made him take TV out of Bedroom because He paused their Boinking when there was a possible Homer & it was~i think by Sandberg. ERNIE is My Guy #1~my dob 11/19/56, All my 60's Pets were named Ernie!~Then Carlton FISK re WSox Alltime for me! & Billy Williams/Sweet Swinging Billy is Pure Class & speaking of Class~Miss Ronnie Santo whose Toupe' caught on fire from a space heater in TV call booth on nippy April game. Leo D's stubbornly not giving the GR8 1969 Cubs Team any Days Off (All Home games were Daytime) killed them in '69~Mets were GR8 but 69 Cubs were Better inc. Pitching even with GR8 Koosman & snobby backstabber "Seaver's" as my Grandfather~(He Lived by Wrigley Field) called Him when a WSox. Cubs Traded GR8 Lou Brock in' 63~Ha!.They shoudla had GR8 Gold Lou Boudreu~sp as Manager till He dropped & Not in Radio Booth. "That is ALL"~(MASH PA). Bests, dtf

The one and only. Loved him as a kid in the 90's when I was watching Mike Piazza and Hideo Nomo. Unique style of delivery and literally inimitable. He will be missed.

rock chalk jayhawk!

My friend just sent me a photo with him and Johnny Bench. They both live in West Palm Beach Florida. it's a small world! Thankfully there's a lot of Great Players that we will always love!

@@glennhalila8279 That is so cool. Two GREAT ballplayers

AL Wade Boggs, NL Tony G🤠

Well, I think it was only Wade's second year in the league, probably why he didn't play here.

@@jamesarmstrong1811 Plus, with George Brett being pretty much a lock to get the fans’ vote at 3rd base at that point in his career, Boggs’ only chance woulda been to be selected as a reserve.

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JayDogTitan 1464 ..⭐️ Absolutely 🌈 I was 20 on this day ✨. Classic times indeed ⚡️

Cal Ripken 24:32

Always seemed to finish second to the eventual WS champion- Pittsburgh in 79, Philadelphia in 80 and St. Louis in 82.

@@MichaelSIngle-gn9qz true. Even in 81 they lose in excruciating circumstances to the eventual champion Dodgers. But man, they were stacked

Outside of catcher and centerfield, they were weak down the middle. Name a big time Expos shortstop or second baseman. Contrasting that, Pitt had Garner at 2nd&Foli at shortstop, Philly had Trillo/Cash at 2nd, and Bowa at shortstop. Raines played a little second, but was not good enough with the leather, so the Expos moved him to the outfield. And, Philly had Carlton on the mound, that is why they won one WORLD TITLE, and two NL league pennants and five East flags in 9 years..that, and Schmidt. Carlton in his career played on 3 WORLD CHAMPS, five NL PENNANT winners, was a star on four of the latter- 67&68 Cards, Phils 80&83, rookie on one- 64..ST.LOU., That is why...

@@MichaelSIngle-gn9qz And they (Expos) finished second to the Dodgers in the strike shortened '81 season. Their best chance at going to the World Series was in 1994, but the players strike that year wiped THAT out. So by the time the Expos DID win the World Series, they were the Washington Nationals (2019), having moved from Montreal after the 2004 seasonm

@@robertsprouse9282 you sound like a Philly guy lol. Talk about a team that squandered a run. 1976-1983...just one WS ring to show for it. And you come off as a bit of a jackass, which makes the Philly thing seem even more likely.

Me too!!

No, they weren't.

There were three future HOFers on those Astros teams back then....Dickey Thon, J.R. Richard and Joe Sambito. Thon was beaned and never the same, J.R. Richard had that drug induced stroke so he was more or less out, and Joe Sambito developed arm trouble that forced him to retire.

The "old school" organ player was no other than the White Sox legendary organist Nancy Faust who played for 41 seasons from 1970-2010

Trammel

@@AgeofCraccadilliaassent He is, of course, a Hall of Famer to spend his whole career with one team (my Tigers) but he's not in this game (Yount is the starting SS with Ripken the backup)

i can transfer it all for you free off the beta and send it all back to you and you can post it. i would like to see the extra coverage you have i watched it all as a kid.

southparkfan2717-- Take your old betamax and VHS tapes to Costco's photo section and they can transfer it to a DVD rather inexpensively. Once you have the game (or movie, whatever...) on either DVD or flash drive format, it is easy to upload to mail or KZfaq.

Same here.

Only one the American League won until the mid 90's

@@jamesarmstrong1811 AL won in 86, 87, and 89.

They both had great peaks, but couldn't keep it up. One due to knee injuries, the other to cocaine.

Now is the anthem singer for the Chicago Cubs.

Who's Atlee Hammaker? Just curious.

@@brandonmorris9889 Watch the game.

Fernando Tatis and Vladimir Guerrero were both 8 years old. Seniors, that is.

Holds a record, amazingly yet to be broken. Along with Fred Lynn! ⚾️

hahaha I always said this. Atlee was never the same.

@@agt462, Brett tripled off of him, ironic because Atlee started with KC, and was traded. George probably knew him like a book.

Atlee was a "native" American, and I think all told, he is one of three "native" pitchers to be in the All Star game: Early Wynn, Allie Reynolds, and Hammaker.. I may be leaving someone out. '83's swan singing catcher/3b/1b Johnny Bench had those strong roots, too.

@@ktok17, Freddie Lynn did it in his hometown, too. That tells you the kind of recruiting USC football and baseball used to do. He had a scholarship with both in the '70's. He went to football practice as a defensive back, got knocked around and quit and went to baseball. If not for the injuries, he would have been in the Hall in MLB..

How could I miss Cal Ripken?

LOL. This looks like his son, compared to now.