Great video. It was the 1918 world series and the Cubs lost to the red sox

I can almost picture shoeless joe jackson emerging from the weeds.

Destroying old baseball cathedrals like Comiskey should be a crime. Shame on the city of Chicago for destroying a beautiful baseball cathedral. Just like Detroit destroying Tiger Stadium. There’s just something wrong about it.

The Original Comiskey Park should have never been destroyed.

Built in 1910 to last 200 years.......until reinsdorf ruined it

It’s a shame because they replaced with a terrible venue. This place was unreal.

This video is a 💎 thanks for sharing!! I miss this old park, went the final season. Remember going the following year in '91 and seeing it like this.. brought me to tears

Rest in Peace Bill, a great guy and friend. You and your great stories are truly missed.

"I think this could've lasted another 50-75 years...". And then some. The Idiots - IDIOTS!

Great Video. Saw Kittle hit a roof shot at a night game right where the guy was pointing between the scoreboard and over the left field roof. Just sailed off into the night, no idea where it landed, Seemed like it flew forever. Never forget it, #42!

As a Sox fan, I hated to see old Comiskey go, but if it took a new ballpark to keep the Sox in Chicago, then so be it

Wow! Seeing the weeds in old Comiskey Park like this really makes me sad.

The Boston Braves only appeared in one World Series, and that was in 1914, when they were referred to as the "Miracle Braves". This guy is either drunk, or just full of shit. The '35 Braves finished last, I believe, and Ruth retired in May. He hit .181 with 6 homers and was 40 years old. The Braves only took him as a publicity stunt, hoping he could still hit a few home runs.

His intentions are good, but he is wrong on a lot of things. But I did love going to the old park and sitting alongside the wall in the lower left field stands. I was there on Bat Day 1972 with 51,000 fans when Allen hit the famous game winning , pinch hit homer off Lyle in the second game. Allen's home run was a moon shot, not a liner. Just like his roof shot off of Cuellar.

I park there now haha

Very cool video ! Thank you

I know exactly what it feels like to walk onto hallowed ground. I got the chance to walk out onto Steve Spurrier/Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at the University of Florida a few years ago where they have been playing football since the 1930’s and I thought I died and gone to Heaven.

i like Guaranteed Rate Field but this place never should have come down...The old classic ball parks become such a part of the teams identity and such a huge draw for tourists to come visit.

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Seems crazy to walk through all that grass coming from Australia. Long grass means snakes

9:10. "Ruth played for the Braves in the teens" WTF ???

With respect, a real major league sh*thole

So many memories. I have a picture my grandpa took of it when torn down. Was always there as a kid.

Well many of us could say we were there. And I still believe they couldve saved / restored the front facade/wall from 1st base to 3rd base. And placed stores , restaurants in it. In fact they could build a reproduction now that it is too late

When I was a kid bill veck gave us free tickets..at our school in Hinsdale he gave each of us kids a pair for the out field seats..in person..he lived in Hinsdale il. There a park named after him ..ball fields. Veck park. Along the trip state toll way..in hinsdale..he would bring his car in for a car wash ..on sundays in the early 1970s....have a cup of coffee. And. .b.s. with my dad..he as I recall as a kid was a color full guy..those were the days..miss the old park..these new parks are stiral..cant beat old school baseball..

Just think if they left the old scoreboard and made it part of the tailgating experience smdh

Great video, GREAT BALLPARK May the people who tore it down get a virus.

I watched Tiger Stadium come down. So many memories. Especially of going with my dad.

I know they had already torn down half of old Comisky here but I’ve Noticed how once teams leave a stadium they don’t even mow the grass and just let it grow into this.

The “new” park was and still is terrible. It has no baseball feel at all or character.

You didn't run through the vines Bill, you ran through the corn in the "Field of Dreams". I would love to meet you and talk White Sox baseball and Comiskey park, I could talk Sox baseball all day and night. I am 73 years old and have been a huge Sox fan since I was 10 in 1956. I live 135 miles straight west of Chicago in Northwest Illinois, 15 miles from the Mississippi river In Iowa but went to hundreds of games in that old park . I had a season ticket plan when the Sox won the division in 1983 . Our seats were a few rows over the wall where Al Smith got his beer bath. I have so many Sox stories that you wouldn't believe some of them but they are for real. thanks for sharing this video, I loved that park, in a way it was my second home.

That park was a shining cathedral as beautiful as an Orthodox church. It's a damn shame 😡 it was torn down.

Who are the Sacks?

Lots of interesting facts. Wrong. But interesting nonetheless.

Murdering people by the stadium load every year and your story is about cooling water for an A/C system “possibly” killing some fish maybe.

I would have done a lot more walking around inside. Been up in the stands, consession areas etc. By the way Comiskey Park opened in 1910, not 1907. And the Cubs had thier own park by 1915!

How did you get in? They had it all fenced off. Great video though

Where do you get your facts buddy? Babe Ruth was NOT with the Boston Braves in 1915. He was with the Boston Red Sox and it was in 1935 (also his last year playing) when he joined the Braves after the Yankees cut him. Also, the Cubs borrowed the park for the 1918 World Series against the Red Sox, not 1915/16 against the Yankees like you mentioned.

I want to know if the old score board was saved donated or destroyed

Hey Chris, Bill is my girlfriend's dad. He wanted me to reach out to you for him to see if you have anymore video etc.