Was there a bunch of school kids there that day? You cane hear them screaming from time to time.

Richard Gazinia That was a long time ago my friend! 😊 I think back in the day it was not as popular to head over to Wrigley Field. Tickets were cheap and it was more of a field trip destination. The whole area in that town was more run down & the Experience itself was kind of lower rent? I do remember large groups of kids showing up for the games I would go to back in those days. Buses of kids coming in from little league, schools.

Bet u are glad u went. A good game.

MGM. Not low rent back then. Wrigley is on northside not southside.

Hey from Pennsylvania! That is "Classic dad!" Our late father would pull that "Let's beat the traffic" plan once in a while and I vowed to NEVER do that to my children. With season tix to both Phillies and Eagles (30 years now) I have remained true to my pledge. Great story Jayhawk, we listened on our radios on the school bus ride home and caught the rest on TV when we got home. Hope you're hanging in there. Miss baseball/sports!

YUP, ITS ORBITING EARTH TO THIS DAY!

I am currently reading Kevin Cook's excellent "Ten Innings at Wrigley" about this game and the time period it took place in. Different world in so many ways. A must read for any baseball fan from the 70s.

its amazing how fast forty years has flown bye...by the way, sixty is the new forty

Yeah -- 40 (count em) years ago . . .

Now you'll never see it again.

Racing home to catch the final few Innings of every home game during the week while school was still going on. Because we certainly weren't able to watch them at night back then were we. To this day even though the Cubs have been playing night game since 1988 they still play the fewest of any team in baseball thanks to their wonderful Neighbors wanting as much peace and quiet as they can get at night. If you want peace and quiet don't move next to a stadium?

Hah...ditto here in Detroit. I think 79 Topps were 15 cents?

Now you need another 30.00 to by junk made on china

Was at school. Saw the rest on TV. Good old Jack brickhouse, "Hey! Hey!"

I was 9 and was "sick", missed school and watched this lying on the couch. I was a little too excited telling my dad about it at dinner.

23 to 22 and lasted 3 and a half hours. That's the time a regular baseball game with a normal score takes today.

I think the uppermost level seats cost about $3 then and with the other $7 you could buy a lot of food and drink then. I was 9 yr old that year. My Dad’s business was 8 blocks due west of Wrigley field and we often walked to the ballpark from there to see games that year and following.

Everyone says this and that about how cheap things were back then..many forget what was min wage $2.90hr. If that

I didn't think the 1st inning would ever end!

I was 12 years old and I'll never forget this game, because a couple of days later, the Phillies came home to play the Expos for a weekend series, I met Pete Rose for the first time on Kodak camera night. Got his Autograph too.

@@johnts1 Now that's really cool! Pete belongs in the Hall of fame!

Paul Sullivan thanks for sharing!

Fantastic story! Thanks for sharing.

I met Mr T in 1980 jogging on a Sunday morning near Northwestern Community Hospital as I was going there to see a patient. He was at the moment sorta pacing himself and 2 guys walked up to him asking for a HIGH 5...but nope ..he wasn't in the mood.

Bill Buckner was a sensational ball player. He got a raw deal from those fair weather idiots in Boston.

Billy Buck

Buckner cost my Sox a world series title. Fuck that guy.

@@greysonG10 Yeah, you would have made a million dollars if your Red Sox had won the title right?

@@antonioacevedo5200 Nah, I'm only playing man. RIP Billy Buck!

Yeah -- and it's gotten 3 weeks more miserable since you posted (!)

Yes sir, Nick. "Working" from home. Missing baseball. On this date I was 13 and about to finish 8th Grade at St. Leo's here in Lancaster, PA. Hope all is well with you and yours, fellow baseball fan.

@MANCHESTER UNITED I like both sports but baseball is more exciting imo. A lot more ppl have read Harry Potter but that doesn't make it better than War and Peace.

Absolutely!!

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Real shame it was called Anaheim Stadium then and they were playing the Brewers and it was a night game that started hours after this one ended so your story is complete ерунда, comrade

@@untexan I got the wrong team, probably a capital offense. Sorry it was a long time ago. I normally would have only gone to see the Tigers. My daughter must have talk me into going. It is very considerate of you to presume I made it up.

caught that line too...laughed out loud and it's 2 AM. one good side of pandemic

@@3Bullets4Alice Actually the game time was 4:03 and that was 10 innings...!!! Can you believe it?! Each team used only 5 pitchers. In today's game it would be a 6+ hr game and outfielders would be pitching the final innings....

@@3Bullets4Alice Brickhouse was hilarious with a lot of his commentary .😆

@@billyhollister8768 JACK WAS DA' FUCKING BOMB..!

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I loved boodie too..but my personal is not Harry Carey..is the man calling this game..Brickhouse

frstbse1 man you got that right!!!

@Doug Lowe One way that kids got in at our school was to be a mass server. Our pastor and associate pastor were both from Chicago and huge Cubs fans. They would take the altar boys over to Wrigley every year at the end of the school year. I was not an altar boy but am a big Cubs fan. I have been to Wrigley perhaps 25 times but have never seen a classic game. I once saw Dunston and Girardi hit singles up the middle in the exact same spot to walk off the Giants bit that was as exciting as it got for me. My younger brother is a huge Black Hawks fan who hates baseball. He never went to Wrigley with me and my mother when I was growing up. But he was a mass server so he finally got to go for free. What game does he get to see? Cubs-Cardinals in 1984 when Sandberg ties it up twice and Cubs finally win it in twelve!

​@@kencummings953The "Sandberg game"

Fishing hard for likes eh?

Jack was the legendary Chicago baseball announcer BEFORE Cub fans, especially the bandwagon ones Anointed Caray as the great Chicago announcer, which was/is a complete JOKE. Harry was a Cardinal legendary announcer. But the fans got amnesia on that, and latched on to Harry AFTER Brickhouse retired. In my opinion it was insulting

I know. If only they could have held the Phillies to 21.

I was 8 1/2 that summer.

I lost track of my age I was 25 in 1979.

the game wouldn't be decided until the 10th inning..incredible..

Now 22 likes lol

Arnie Harris Director-WGN SPORTS. at the time

There were graphics; this a "clear feed" from a satellite receiver, so they're not captured. But other Cubs games from this era show the basic info (name, BA/HR/RBI, and the box score at the end of the half-inning.)

corporate geeks took over pro sports in the 90s.

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Lol thats hilarious! A foreshadowing of what Chicago's defense in general would be like that day.

yeah, this would of been a really high scoring game without the wind. Pitchers throwing batting practice. Line drive after line drive

I heard there was so many singles because the outfielders had to play very deep because of the wind.

His strike zone reflected his hangover. He really squeezed these pitchers and was a contributor to the high score of this game. Pitiful umpiring.

Disco Stu loves disco music!

Jack Brickhouse (PBP) 1-4/7-9 Lou Boudreau (PBP) 5-6 Ray Meyer (in the 5th)

Your comment makes no sense. I am criticizing new generation baseball. Read what I wrote again.

Because God forbid if someone actually has FUN while playing a GAME.

We have different definitions of "fun".

@@nicholasfox966 yes, mine, and the players, is objectively true, and yours is objectively false.

Robert Ridley Ha, ha, I admire your absolutism! I will say simply that it is objectively true that there are many, many players and fans who find the things I described NOT fun, but off-putting and alienating, and that the game was exponentially more fun when these things didn’t take place.

even after he smashed a dinger in the top half of the first inning!

He held the Cubs to six in the first so technically he did hold the lead.

There was a difference in the replay. After the last out, WGN showed Ernie Banks hitting a homer and the announcer yelled, "Cubs win." A voiceover then said, "Well, we can dream, can't we?"

Sameeeeee

Growing up in Chicago as a White Sox fan the Phillies we're my National League team. I played 3rd base in little league and Mike Schmidt was my guy.

@@davestencel1053It's weird, because My brother Is a Phillies an Bears fan. And I know many others who have both the Philly an Chicago connection when it comes to sports. I guess it's the long history in sports between the two cities that draws it to people.

All 30 baseball teams, right now, are in first place and undefeated...

No but the same 2 teams played a game in the 20s that was higher scoring

Hit the front porch of the 4th structure / 5th lot up Kenmore. 570-580 ft. A bit higher it would have cracked the guy right in the kneecap. Lou corrects himself on the replay. Not 3rd house Lou....4th house/5 lots away from Waveland.

@@dadp9917 the only other home run I saw which was in that range was when Glenallen Hill hit the ball over Waveland Avenue and on to the roof of the building across the street! I forget what year that was, sometime in the 1990's. It may have gone just as far or possibly a little farther than Kingman's home run. Had Kingman stuck around for a couple of more seasons, there was an outside chance that he would have hit 500 homers for his career. Problem was, he was such a bad hitter overall and he was strictly a DH by that point. Not to mention, this was during the height of MLB collusion between the owners under Peter Uberroth's directive. So, Kingman wasn't going to get what he was after contract-wise and decided to retire instead. Would Kingman be a Hall Of Famer with 500 HR's? My guess would be, probably not. You either got a home run or a strikeout when he was up at the plate, lol. My last memory of his playing days was when he was in Oakland in 1984 or thereabouts when Rickey Henderson was still there before the trade to the Yankees.

It hit the 3rd porch on Kenmore av behind the LF wall !

Bird was drafted the season before but didn't sign. Back then there was a rule where NBA teams could draft college players but if they didn't sign them by the next draft the player would go back in the pool so the announcers obviously didn't realize this and as we all know Bird ended up signing with the Celtics before the 1979 NBA draft or he would have been a Bull more than likely or a Knick.

A coin flip?! That's crazy! I guess fate smiled on them with Michael Jordan but wow that's crazy.

I used to read the box scores in the sporting news for hours, good times..

his at bats were epic, every time you felt, this could be the time he hits it to the Moon.

@@sportsrevisited9699 Agreed. Moonshots. He hit so many that NASA was jealous.

I'm a 64 year old lifelong Phillies fan and I'll never forget when Kingman was on the Mets in '81 and he hit a moonshot off of Tug McGraw at Veterans Stadium which went waaaay up into the left field upper deck. Luckily for Tug and the Fightin's the ball was just barely foul. If it had stayed fair it would've rivaled Willie Stargell's mammoth shot which was marked in the upper deck in right field. I attended a good number of games at the Vet and I had never seen anyone come close to hitting a ball that far. It was an incredible shot.

They could have synced it with the radio broadcast which is available.

I had no idea that fans in Philadelphia didn't see it live

I remember this game we were eating dinner and listening to the radio. It was something the ball was flying out. Schmidt 4 homers if my memory serves me right.

bobby G Keep in mind this was played in 1979 right before the start of regional sports networks in America. At that I think WPHL TV in Philadelphia was the only local tv for Phillies baseball at that time. Now every game is on TV in some form either on say NBC Sports Net Philadelphia or on a few handful of games on the Local NBC Philly station.

Interesting because I always assumed WPHL would have aired it because they did air most Phillies games then that I used to get to see on cable in New York (which also had Red Sox games on WSBK-TV, Channel 38 in Boston at the time). I did see the replay of this on WPHL-TV (Channel 17) and always thought it was a re-air of the live broadcast.

lol he would have hit 80 home runs....

Ain't that the truth!

Those would be foul balls. Wisconsin would be in fair territory.

Or Wisconsin

I think that ball landed in Evansville!

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You got that right! Or not quite half of any Yankees-Red Sox game airing on national tv .....

Or any NYY-BOS game after 5 innings ......

Wheels fell off of this season after this game. Phils were 24-10 and were 3 1/2 games up in first place after this game but ended up going 60-68 the rest of the way finishing in 4th place.

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@@JimA-pp2nu that's pretty good. With practice you might be able to learn the other 23 letters.

@@Rockhound6165 baseball doesn’t start till June. As a cubs fan it breaks my heart with how many 20-10 starts in April early may the cubs would have, only to end the season missing the playoffs by 2 games.

And the lighting at Wrigley is the worst in the league now that the Braves left Turner field. There is no backlighting creating shadows watching the game from the outfield.

@@Mark-sj3xb The worst lighting in the MLB is still American Family Field in Milwaukee. Braves all star Freddie Freeman said about that stadium, “I have played in little league parks with better lighting.”

As a Phillies fan I wondered why you don't hear about these crazy types of games at Wrigley anymore. Thanks for providing the reason. Didn't the Phillies and Cubs have a game several years earlier which had slightly less scoring but Schmidt hit four HR's?

The Cubs honored the DePaul Basketball team prior to the game.

@@williamdunphy352 That was the stated special occasion. The game turned out bigger.

You mean Jack Brickhouse. Harry Carey was the White Sox announcer at the time

Just definitely not as a pinch hitter.

As a Tigers fan, I have this to say: Bite me.

Actually, the 1984 postseason forced the Cubs to install lights when the following year MLB was going to make the Cubs play postseason games in St. Louis unless they installed light (though they could have used Comiskey for that purpose).

Amen to that, Pete Rose is a Hall of Famer and its about time for him to be inducted.

same with the NFL and NBA and yet they can't seem to figure out why popularity is slipping. it's like the least important thing is the actual game.