I like the way these old ball parks look way better then today’s parks.

This video brings back so many memories of a place and a team i love. I was a season ticket holder and saw many of the events on this video,in fact my wife and i are on it at the 4:10 mark, we are sitting in the back row ,i have a white shirt and my wife is wearing sunglasses and seems to be looking at the camera. Thanks for sharing this, i watch it a lot.

From 1967 to 1990 I saw close to 300 games there with my parents and brothers and friends. It was my 2nd home and watched tons of games on tv or on the radio. My family taught me the love of baseball through the White Sox and always carry their memories. Its a great video thanks for posting

I remember sitting in center field with Harry Carey and Bill Veeck. Veecks wooden leg hanging in the aisle. Drinking beer soaking up the sun and just enjoying life and the great game of baseball ⚾️ It'll never be the same man how I miss those days.

Man, if I ever owned a baseball team, I would build a stadium looking like this design.... I love the old school baseball feel I get watching this video... Well done....

So much character to that old park. I use to love looking out towards left field and seeing the trees swaying in the summer breeze. RIP.

My mother use to take me to the games. I grew up just on the other side of the expressway. And even when we did no go in the park, watching the fireworks gave us proof of another home run for the home team! The sound of the black gravel under my tires as my friends and I rode our bikes in the parking lot at night also brings back great memories of the monstrous sized park with the painted white facade.

I'm not even a Sox fan but this hit me. This team has a storied pass and will never be forgotten. We need more Men like Bill Veeck in Baseball today. His personality and wisdom made the game fun and exciting. Maybe they way I feel about this team, there is a Sox fan inside me after all.

That brought back more than a few memories of when I was a kid rooting on the Sox. I still can't look at those photos of it partially demolished. Those bring up tears.

i was in most of the old ball parks except for ebbs and crosley and this was the best. it was perfect in so many ways. to tear it down and to put up with they did was a crime.

So many great times there. I really miss the old place.

Another great original ballpark that should of been saved/renovated! From a die hard Minnesota Twins fan!

This park should never have been torn down. They should have restored it AND left the neighborhood taverns/businesses around it intact. The blue-seated atrocity across the street may have come with all the “bells & whistles”, but it possessed NONE of the history, charm or mystique of it’s grand predecessor, the TRUE Comiskey Park. The old park took with it a great deal of the team’s hard earned character. I loved the White Sox, but it took me years to feel the same passion I held before they ‘86’d our beloved ballpark.

When the Senators left Washington for Texas, I was fortunate to visit many stadiums. Comiskey Park was the best place I ever watched a game.

Was able to play in a 3-day White Sox fantasy camp at old Comiskey Park in September of 1990. Got to bat against Hoyt Wilhelm and Gary Peters. Played catch with Minnie Minoso. I was 44 at the time and the throw from third base to first was a real rainbow. They tore the park down that fall. Sad. Attended my first game in 1956. Saw Billy Pierce out pitch Whitey Ford.

Closed the year after I was born. But I've longed to go there my whole life. I had a dream last night that was so real that I was there.

Thank you so much. Wonderful tribute to a great city and the White Sox.

Old comiskey park.thats when the white sox had a great team in 1983.

i miss the old ballparks!

I saw about 15-games at the old park in the summer of 1990. It was a cool place.

I grew up in California but my dad was from Chicago. My family there are more Cubs fans but one time while visiting, probably around ‘81 my grandpa took my brother and I to Comiskey. Sox played the Yanks. I remember feeling like stepping back in time when I entered the park. You could feel the history. I was 11 years old but even I knew it was a special place. It’s a shame they let it go. I liked it better than Wrigley. I’m a Giants fan but have a soft spot for the Sox because of the experience.

In 1953 my grandfather took my brother and me to see Satchel Paige pitch for the St. Louis Browns against the White Sox at Comiskey Park . A month later I was in Cook County Hospital fighting for my life in an iron lung . Evidently it was " Polio Night " at the old ballpark .

Thats what the old Yankee stadium did for me. R.I.P. Comiskey. Great Vid

Beautiful job! Just terrific! I was thinking of doing a similar thing with Candlestick Park, as the final game (MNF) tomorrow has me feeling nostalgiac and kinda sad. But you did just a great job here, there's no topping it, and it feels more appropriate for Comiskey with Mr Veek's trademarked exploding scoreboard and the fireworks across the sky. I can't say enough about what a great job you did. Thanks for sharing.

I moved to Chicago in 2002 . Never got to experience this piece of mlb & Chicago history... I wish I did

I wish I got to go there. :( I hear so many White Sox and Comiskey stories from the 70s and 80s and considering how crazy they were, it makes me think of how fun baseball is.

Thank you for a great video of memories.

Well done, beautiful memories

As a kid, I remember the thrill of a 9th inning come from behind win. Singing that na, na, na song as we exited the park down some crowed steep stairwell. We would always park on some gravel road near train tracks.

I grew up in that park...

I visited a little too late, getting out to Chicago when I was in grad school in 1997. Of course I went to the antiseptic "new Comiskey" (as it was called before corporate naming started). I really regret not making it to the real Comiskey. We're missing the ballparks that really personified a team and Comiskey was one of those. Right away you knew you were watching a White Sox game with that intimate green background.

I always liked that green color of the seats. It's so soothing.

I was at the Disco Demolition there .

Fun memories, fun times. Thanks for the great moments in our lives.

I sure miss old Comiskey and wish it had never been torn down.

Lifelong Sox fan born in '92. Obviously never got to experience the old ballpark, but have always been fascinated by it and enjoy reading about it. Always stop by the home plate marker next to new Comiskey (I refuse to call it by any other name) when I get a chance. And while I do consider the new park a home away from home of sorts, I know it doesn't replace the old Comiskey, even though I understand it was a difficult choice for the team and city to make; either replace the palace of baseball with a new taxpayer funded park, or lose the White Sox to Tampa (and given how the Rays have fared down there, it would've been a waste of a franchise)

Went there many times in the 70's and 80's. Was there for the division clincher with my mom. Went to all-star game festivities, both in 83. Miss the atmosphere, the scoreboard, Harry Caray's singing in the 7th inning. Nansy Faust on the organ. We fans singing nana nana hey hey hey goodbye. Man great memories. Bill Veeck was great.

First time I visited Old Comiskey was June of 1987. I was lured by the smell of Mexican food in the Picnic Area behind the LF wall, and lifted up a lid to one of the pots asking the woman standing near what was in it? She didn't answer, so I asked again - and again. Then another woman came over and said, "She doesn't speak English!". That was all I needed to hear; I'll have a large bowl of whatever is in that pot!". Just one example of how authentic this ballpark was. The new one is, as Howard Cosell might have put it, "Just a shadow of its former self.".

I'm back my comments are below from 7 years ago. I watch this a lot because of the memories it brings back. I love the Sox and I loved that park. I am ready for baseball and the Sox are going to be in the baseball spotlight this season and many to come, the team they have assembled could be the greatest that they have ever had. Barring injuries they will be the kings of baseball very soon.

Live in Milwaukee, but have a soft spot in my heart for the Sox, when the Braves left, they played games here til We got the Brewers

Miss that ballpark very much!

Went to lots of games there in the 60's and early 70's. Ty Cobb played there. Joe Jackson,Babe Ruth Lou Gherig,Jimmie Foxx,Lefty Grove, Mickey Mantle,Whitey Ford,Ted Williams,joe DiMaggio, Eddie Collins etc etc etc. How could they tear it down? It'd be like throwing your pre war Martin in the trash

Bill Veeck once referred to this ball park as the world's best biggest saloon.

Whatever became of those trees that were down the right field line outside of the park? I had heard at the park closing they were 120 years old

That would be so cool to see a game from one of those field level seats in the outfield.

I regret having never visited this park and the old Tiger's Stadium.

I never got a chance to go to the original i was born in 92 but i have a framed picture of it. My uncle has seats from there.

We took our kids to Comiskey. Glad we went.

I loved going to games here. My grandfather started taking me in 1960’s.

Some many great memories but most of all i fell in love with the Chicago White Sox and always be a White Sox fan

I loved that ballpark and was lucky enough to travel and see a game in 1982 vs the A’s. They made a mistake and should of just refurbished it like the Cubs did. Can you imagine what a “gem” it would be if it was still here in 2022.

Nice! I just figured out recently that my first and last visit to Comiskey were exactly 10 years apart. July 11th, 1980 and July 11th, 1990, which was the first ever turn-back-the-clock day. Something that has really taken off since.

My first major league game was at Comisky against the Yankees in '69 with my late dad, late uncle and cousins and a few others. It was then that became hooked on baseball, and have been a Yankee fan ever since.

I wish that the Sox would rebuild a replica of old Comiskey Park and tear down the stadium they are currently using. The owners claimed that the old stadium was in bad shape and needed to be torn down. What the owners did was neglect the old stadium in its final years to make their point. It was only when they started tearing down the old stadium that people realized that the stadium was far better shape than what the owners claimed it was in.

Miss the old ball parks. Today's stadiums are all the same.

God Bless You David Smith!

Nicely done.

I went to a game at Wrigley in 1987 and then I went to a game the last year of Comiskey. I enjoyed the game at Comiskey ten times more than I enjoyed the game at Wrigley. The fans were much more engaged with the game. A lot more fun to be around. the park, I thought, was a better experience. Cub fans were at Wrigley just to say they went there. That being said, it probably was time to replace it when they did. Hard to believe it's been over 25 years!

As a Cubs fan, I love Wrigley Field, and its a shame that Chicago couldn’t have 2 classic ball parks. I don’t know why they tore this down and replaced it with what is considered one of the worst stadiums in the MLB

f n White Sox as a tiger fan I miss Comiskey like I miss old Tiger Stadium what I remember about Comiskey is I called them portals in between the the levels of stands where you can see outside like Windows

It is across the street, a parking lot now. They have a home plate where the original was.

How many of you all hate the idea of naming baseball stadiums after corporations?

i still have the foul ball i caught in a 1984 game between the white sox and a's. i was 17 at the time. lol.

Some of the old stadiums that got demolished I get it but others were just vicious to torn them down

Camden Yards in Baltimore was a good idea but the rest of these new generations stadiums all look like parodies of each other. Caricatures of what they want us to think old ballparks were like. If you don't have posts holding up the upper deck your just too far away.

I have attended games at Comiskey park and at Cellular feild .Guess which one I like better?

Trivia question time..... Who was the last out recorded at the stadium and who was the battery for that last out?

What a great place especially with the open arches. Golden box seating. I was lucky enough to grow up as a kid in that park. The bathrooms were horrible and when I was old enough getting a beer was a challenge. Was on the field for the 1983 Clincher, saw the demolition derby, and now I have a couple of bricks from the place that my friends and I were able to steal plus I have a rare brick of McCuddy's. Irreplaceable memories and I am thankful for it.

The yellow box seats

Great video

Great video the old ballparks had way more charm and ambience.

Born in 2000, I can only dream if they could have kept this beautiful ball park as it is. Why must they have torn down someghing that never had to be. Curse you jerry. You have stripped too much from this team. A team that I love and now have grown to hate. This place could have been like wrigley, which I even admit i love going to.

What a wonderful song by Frank Sinatra.

Thank you

Sad but the video gave it the true feel of Cominskey park... was fortunate enough to have been at a game in the 80's(Sox won that day) and I thank my college buddy for getting a ticket for me to see one of the grand old ballparks... some ballparks should be preserved by the National Register for Preservation... sad to see them go because they had charm and each had its uniqueness.

Yeah, and you know what was there before their was a ballpark? A Garbage Dump! So when do we get to hear, "There Used to be a Garbage Dump Right Here."

What a beautiful Ballpark and PS Bill Veeck was a great American

Well, the old park's added antics (Comiskey Park, of course) was a bit like the shrine in Oakland, CA, known as the Oakland Coliseum when the team's president, Charles Finley, shined with the A's in their championship years of 1972, 1973, and 1974. There was an allusion to Finley's wanting of his stadium's fireworks during home runs and during team victories to his A's team - and Bill Veeck's shrine known as Comiskey Park and its Chicago White Sox, that outlasted Finley's antics in Oakland in the 1970s. Comiskey Park shined of course with its own exploding scoreboard and its fireworks - as well as Veeck's organizing of a crap ton of between-game and pre-game events--some of them that were pretty funny and wacky, which made that ballpark (Comiskey) an even stronger shrine and palace than that of Oakland's antics in that decade.

Flew over 2000 miles to witness last two games played at Old Comiskey in late September of 1990. The fools who tore it down should be shot, but not before the fools who built the new park.

Frank always new how to do it.

Bill Veeck deserved more than a couple of seconds on the screen and Harry Caray and Nancy Faust deserved to be shown too.

Great use of Sinatra here. Kudos

It's completely sickening that Comiskey Park was brought down.

This song is more suited for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Ebbets Field, plus the the fact the New York Mets hardly tried during their first years in existence.

disco demolition night....thanks for ending that music.....

Been there twice and enjoyed both games. But then I didn't sit in the back of the lower deck.

I was there the last year, sorry to say they had let it decay badly. water dripping paint chipping (I have a chip of that paint) and rust everywhere.

I still prefer the old Comiskey rather than the taxpayers and corporate.' park

Now Fenway is the last one standing...but for how much longer?

Its 15 minutes of fame, or in this case, infamy, was Disco Demolition Night.

Bet the Sox would of kept the old park same with the Tigers they could of done a massive overhaul like wrigley or Fenway hell after the Cubs redo the upper deck everything is new pretty much you can never replicate what the old ballparks gave even when a team was not good people would want to go out to the old ballparks now if you’re no good with new ballparks people won’t come

They promised to rebuild McCuddy’s but never did

Typical of Chicago disrespecting stadiums. Comiskey Park and the awful renovation of soldier field. Lucky cubs fans still have their stadium left the way it was with a few renovations.

I love my sox!

If they were able to renovate Fenway and Wrigley, they could easily have renovated Comiskey and Tiger Stadium. I sort of like the new Comiskey, but Comerica Park is a terrible place to see a baseball game. The seats are a mile away from the field and the deck angles are flat and the place is gigantic. No intimacy at all. There is very little shelter from the sun. On a sunny day with temps at 75 or higher it is like sitting in a frying pan. It is horrible. And it's stale and sterile and awful. Anyway. The old parks had their flaws, but they were better overall

Was able to see a few games before things ended; it was a classic, historical place to watch a game. But to hear Fisk say it was the "grandaddy" of parks after playing so long at Fenway just doesn't sit with me.

fUNNY, i ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THE SONG WAS ABOUT EBBETS FIELD IN BROOKLYN. WELL MAYBE THAT BECAUSE I AM FROM BROOKLYN.

Looks like hell for any ballhawkers

Shoulda kept the place open.

Here's a version for Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC, where Howard University Hospital now stands. Soon RFK Stadium may face the same fate, once DC United's new stadium opens. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pqmTftBjrNi7pp8.html