You spelled Piersall wrong.

Harry is hilarious too, I love how he even at the very end in a serious moment is talking about people at the game still lol. Classic.

Piersall was tremendous, one of the best color commentators ever.

When MLB players stood for the national anthem and didn't favor violent criminals over police officers.

@@mrg8581 back when there was no instant replay , and you had to earn your way to the playoff's and ot the Bernie Sanders everybody should get in system.

Yup, and possible strike on horizon between players and owners. Stay tuned. Pathetic how much it cost to go to just a regular season game. THEY get away with it is what’s disturbing! Sad....

Back when people knew how to use apostrophes properly and the national anthem was just incidental to sporting events. Yeah, I sure do miss those days.

A year later, half of the sox games went to sportsvision (pay channel) ontv…

He and Piersall would complete each others' sentences. They almost sounded like fans themselves (except smarter than the average fan), which I think is what made them so exciting to listen to.

He had a stroke in 87 that slowed his speech somewhat

Must have been a good game

Long time ago than Harry came to the North Side in 84 and everything changed

That's right

@@JC-pu7gi When Jerry instigated the lockout in 1994. That started it actually, because starting in 95 the Sox couldn't draw sqiat abd the Cubs attendance soared

The Cubs usually kept the UD closed unless there was a big crowd anticipated, IE, a weekend series with St. Louis, LA or Cincinnati or whoever else was hot at the time.

Roger that!

Trickle-down economic theory was in its infancy; so there was still a middle class, relatively speaking. And most folks were still comfortable enough and still terrified enough by the Cold War propaganda not to question too much. MLB Players Union was powerful then, but nothing compared to today. Other worker unions in the country at that time were about to begin their rapid decline and today they hardly even exist. And most that still exist have leadership in the pockets of the companies. The whole thing is rigged now and nobody can regulate it because the monetary imbalance was allowed to become too great.

I know, you can feel the vibe this was a great time to be alive.

He and Piersall worked brilliantly off each other - because Jimmy told it like it was too, plus he had superb knowledge of baseball fundamentals, and didn't take himself too seriously of course.

I know! 😂 And together it's an absolute unintentional comedy, especially when Harry was good and liquored up by around the 4th or 5th inning as he always started to slur his words more around that time. Piersall actually ran the bases in reverse order one time in a game. 😂

Broadcasters today talk too much

He was the youngest manager in baseball then, now the oldest.

Crazy how it all, (life) works out sometimes....right? Lol.

They’re doing great so far. Let’s hope they keep it going in 2021…

I think they call this "full circle".

I assumed Bob Uecker was the inspiration for the Harry Doyle character, lol.

McConnell was the voice of the Bears at the time as well.

He was also very good doing DePaul basketball on WGN.

McConnell also called games with Herb Carneal for the Twins in 1977.

With respect to that game, it was an unscheduled make-up game played during an unseasonably cold rainy week in late September with the The Yankees in last place. The question was not why are there only 413 (I think the number was actually 496) in attendance, it was why did these people attend this game in the first place. Barber was insubordinate, the announcers were instructed not to make any reference to the empty stadium, he deliberately disobeyed the instruction. One other point the Yankees had four announcers, the team eliminated one position as a budget move. The team was losing a main sponsor at the end of the season (Ballantine Ale) so the organization was looking to make a cut to save some dollars. The Yankees remained with just three announcers into the 1970's. The other announcers were Joe Garagiola, Jerry Coleman and Phil Rizzuto, all in the prime of their careers with many years ahead of them. Barber on the other hand was almost 60, most associated him with the old Brooklyn Dodgers, he was the obvious choice to be let go. He was also the highest paid so he stuck out like a sore thumb.

You spelled Drury wrong.

SportsVision wasn't on cable (except for a few select areas). It was a scrambled over-the-air signal using TV station Channel 60 WPWR-TV Gary / WBBS-TV West Chicago. Subscribers paid for boxes to unscramble the signal. Sometimes they had free preview nights which were un-scrambled.

@@gregoryleo4640 It ended up on cable around ‘84-‘85ish, after they figured out the paid subscription model was a lost cause.

Nick...baseball today. UNWATCHABLE. what a shame. ((pitchers too powerful..ball jumpin..hitters k or hr. NO ACTION

As soon as I saw the date of when this game was played, I immediately thought of the 1981 strike that wiped out 2 months of the schedule.

Doug "The Larry" Bird.

yes but how much is our currency worth now through inflation

WPIX is owned by Mission Broadcasting, and operated by NexStar Communcations, and WGN-TV is owned and operated by NexStar communcations.

all these pre 85 are gold to me!

Awesome job.Loving the constant uploads.

They’re doing the Lord’s work - bringing folks 1980’s baseball

I would love to see Dick Allen's walkoff against Sparky Lyle in '72.

Thanks for posting these. Really enjoyable to watch..

Yes, I thought I was hearing things. I had to replay it.

@@bsully9219 I didn't quite notice that, but that is funny. What I DID catch though, is no mention of the star of the movie, Harrison Ford in the ad that I could see. Somewhat surprising for a movie that was just coming out, you'd think they'd wanna play that up, especially with the built-in Star Wars tie in. Sidenote, Tom Selleck was cast for that role originally, but turned it down for Magnum P.I. not believing he could do both, only to find out later because of shooting delays he could have. But by then, his chance was gone. He was out, and Ford was in. As it is, he ended up with a highly successful run with Magnum (been watching the reruns with my mom now and again recently, great great series), and Ford obviously became an even bigger star than he was before with the role, so worked out well for both parties ultimately. Gotta wonder what woulda happened in a parallel world where he (Selleck) took that role though. It'd be interesting to find out.

Yep. I wonder if they have any caps left from the June 25 cap day that never happened. I’ll take one!

I actually remember attending a game that night. I was Nine years old and my family attended a game in Bloomington MN between the Twins and Tigers. It was helmet night so we all got souvenir helmets which helped during the rain delay that night. We decided to go to the game on Sunday and in those days you could get good seats at Met Stadium as the Twins were not a good team in 1981.

Don Mattingly’s entire career was sandwiched in between the Yankee’s world series appearances in ‘81 and ‘96

You are correct. Textbook positioning and sell.

@@Mark-sj3xb Love Piersall agreeing with the umpire's call. "See, I say nice things about umpires sometimes!"

Yes we all know the movie is One in a Million the Ron Leflore story

Third

These guys talk too (Harry, Jimmy, and Joe McConnell). But they sound fun, exciting, and untethered.

Ruined my summer that year

It sucks now....today's players are a joke !!!

Plus too many teams and too many players. A guy can have a twenty year career and retire and you never even heard of him.

@@hiramnoone Is everyone here going to keep complaining about baseball today compared to yesteryear...?

Baseball sucks at marketing itself.

​@@ckendall67Yes! Now get off my lawn! Lol

I'm still wondering that all these years later...

@@bsully9219 I guess they didn't think of that

Long arms?!

All the way to the HOF

One Saturday night late that summer, I was watching an NFL preseason game on CBS. During which, two highlights featuring Jackson against the White Sox were shown. The first was of Jackson homering off Richard Dotson, and the second was of fans throwing bills and coins down to Jackson as he stood in right field.

These pathetic hitters nowadays with their launch angle BS would still find a way to strike out. Kyle Hendricks of the Cubs has a fastball that tops out at 88-89 mph, and he still has averaged 7.5 K's over 9 innings during a 7-year career that has totalled over 1,000 innings pitched.

He was on the Yankees for a year and was awful. The balls would rocket off of him.

NETTLES AND RANDOLPH BELONG TOO

both!

Really?

Yes, he did. 1971-1981.

From 1970 until 1981. He didn't join the Cubs until '82.

He started in 1946 with the St Louis Cardinals. He went to Oakland in 1970. Went to the Chicago White Sox in 1971 and the Cubs in 1982. Prestroke Harry Caray was fun to listen to. Strike or no stroke, there is no denying his true love of the game.

Huh? Where do you think all his Cubs antics originated from? They were ripped off from the White Sox, like the Flubs have always done.

@@darwinblinks Including winning a world series

But no one was a worse homer than Ken Harrleson.

Yes, Rizzuto was a homer. But he had been a Yankee since 1941. The other guys shilled for their employeers. Phil bled Yankees navy blue.

The Cardinals suffered a similar fate as well, having the top record in the NL East, but losing out to the Expos and Phillies who woulda otherwise finished 2 and 2.5 games behind them respectively. At least they went to and won the World Series the following season though to make up for that, which is more than could be said for the Reds, who had to wait basically a full decade after this before getting their next title.

He began with the Cubs in 1982. I remember listening to the Cubs that year and just thinking, as a 10-year-old White Sox fan (who doesn't care either way about the Cubs, I was just a baseball fan), how strange it was to hear Harry with the Cubs.

Me too lol. And moreso when he got a walk. I could feel the tension with each pitch and stoppage there, even knowing the video was surely ending soon. Great theatre.

Then 1976 will really shock you. They wore shorts 3 games that year.

@@johnnyb980 In 1976-1981, they wore these uniforms. Bill Veeck's idea...I guess to bring back old time-looking baseball. BY 1982, they went to the uniforms with the big funky Sox logo actoss the front inside the wide stripe (which they brought back this season as an alternate jersey).

I liked the 75 Sox unis with the red pinstripes. Reminds me of Dick Allen, Rich Gossage and "Fat Tub of Goo" Terry Forster.