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Remember it like it was yesterday

A winning record and Dick Allen's arrival brought fans to the ballpark in 1972.

Dick Allen gives GOD the glory for the talent he had, Amen! And he didn't wear batting gloves.

I was at the last night game! The fireworks after the game was spectacular!

Seems like a Ballpark I wished I could have been to. I have been to the new Comiskey Ballpark .

That was actually the first year for Harry Caray in Chicago. Also, the White Sox actually had the second best record in the American League that year, but because they chose to remain in the Western Division when the Washington Senators moved to Arlington, TX to become the Texas Rangers (the Milwaukee Brewers made the switch instead), they lost out on the post-season. One last observation, two years earlier, the team lost a then franchise-record 106 games, which might give fans a glimmer of hope in this disastrous season.

The editing is top notch. When the players talk about a certain at bat or pitch sequence, the video footage is there.

Dick Allen belongs in the HOF.

That brings back memories, Dick Allen, Harry Carey, Bill Vieck , on WMAQ RADIO, !!! Those were the days my friend, !!!

Grew up a Sox fan and caught for much of my little league baseball career because I liked suiting up in all the gear, even on the hottest of summer days. Pudge was my guy.

Three times the White Sox were close to leaving Chicago, and all three somebody kept them in Chi.

Rest easy Dick Allen.

I don't blame them for having too much security. Between the riot that happened at the end of the last game at Forbes Field in 1970 and what happened on Disco Demolition Night in 1979, they didn't want to take the chance. You just don't know. Better to be too safe rather than not safe enough.

Our White Sox need another Dick Allen (or three) right now.

They gave away 30,000 bats to people who would be drinking beer all day? Different times ….

What a great documentary! Thank you so much! Although I'm a life-long Braves fan in Tennessee, I always enjoyed following the Sox on WGN.

I loved going to that park the new one is a mistake and the owner is a joke he has ruined everything that he touches

Love Love LOVE this!!

What is the music? I like it a lot.

I played basketball what's Dick Allen in 1960 when Wampum😅 won the Pennsylvania basketball state championship. as a senior he was our leader. the most gifted athlete I've ever seen!!! Jim Santelli

play basketball with him at volume up

I went to my first Sox game during the last season at Comiskey. Beat Indians 3-1. Fisk hit a home run. I’ll never forget it

I've read the concessions were really good. Great sausages.

Awesome documentary.

I was at that game.

Shoeless joe jackson played in that thing, the 1918 world series between the Cubs and Red Sox was played there so Babe Ruth pitched in the world series in that thing.

dude fkn rules. saw 10 foot pole 2-3 times in the early to mid 90s. saw Pulley only once.

Northside native and Cubs fan here, this documentary was excellent. I went to 1 game at old Comiskey in 1990, my friends parents took us on the redline from the Jarvis stop all the way to 35th.

Shouldn't have been replaced

Tom Shaer is sooo underrated. Tom has great stories and a funny guy. These Last Comiskey events are fun.

Chicago had a better record than Detroit in 1972 (which was cut short by eight games due to a strike) If Milwaukee had been in the West vs. Chicago (the Brewers are slightly further West) and all else was the same well...

As a Cubs fan, it's a cliche, but it's true: You never know what you truly have until you lose it!

Love pausing amd reading rhst first article 📰

Great material. Thanks for posting.

Nice job, everyone. That was really great

Me and some friends were at opening day Wrigley Field 1969 and we left the game before Willie Smith hit the game winning home run. Bad decision!

Watched on channel 32> Will never forget.

Is this a series on this channel?? I hope it's a series on this channel I could watch these for HOURS!! (Sidenote, what if there was a second channel for '90s comiskey' (which is no longer new, and thats wonderful cuz a generation or so have grown up with that as their park. )

my favorite white sox teams, wilbur wood, dick allen, bill melton, tommy john, joel horlen, carlos may... i'll never forget the first game i saw with dick allen, we were early and i went down to the front row seats to watch the white sox warmup, and up the dugout steps comes dick allen, in uniform, wearing his red batting helmet, those awesome red pinstripes... he stops at the top step, surveys the field... and he's smoking a cigarette, it was at this moment i knew dick allen did pretty much what he wanted.

Note*** I went to the New Park twice..not the same feel. My memories are larger and more exciting from the old park. 77 hit men anyone?

I also wanna say thx for the memories of great a baseball time. It was so well documented and touched with the feeling of the time!

I was a Sox fan from 1964-1994... Broke my heart in 1967, but 1972 resurrected it. Then I couldn't figure out what happened to Dick Allen. Anyway the team that broke my heart in 67 gave up Carlton Fisk, then 83 happened. When I started raising my kids, the Sox where floundering to mediocre seasons until 1990. That's when it started clicking again. Loved em with anticipation of winning. Then 94...the strike disaster! The only games and only teams I watched from then till now 2005 World Series.. High priced baby's in my estimation. The game is gone. No more; Mays, Mantle, Frank Robinson, Yaz, Fisk, Thomas (early years). It's MONEYBALL!

I was nine years old when Dick (they called him Richie then) was a rookie in 1964 in Philadelphia. My dad would take me to games at old Connie Mack Stadium, and when Allen came up, sometimes my dad would say, "He's due," and Allen would often hit one of his mammoth homers. Now I have a second story related to beating the Yankees on a bat day. I was living in Seattle in 1981, and on Saturday, May 9, 1981, the Yankees played the Mariners in the Kingdome on Bat Day. I went to that game. Tom Paciorek hit a walkoff 3 run homer to beat the Yankees that day. There were 51,000 fans in the Kingdome, and they were banging the bats on the metal seats after the game winning homer. Amazingly, Paciorek also hit a walkoff homer the day before to beat the Yankees. After the 1981 season, Paciorek was traded to the White Sox. I'm not writing this completely from my memory. I went to Baseball Reference and confirmed the information about what happened in the Kingdome in May of 1981.

Allen hit some of the hardest and longest balls I've ever seen.

Compliments to the filmmaker on this documentary. I never visited old Comiskey but this really gave a great insight to a classic ballpark.

Perfect

1959 season would be the last year of that scoreboard that was shown right away

Man, I miss Comiskey. I miss the endless ramps, the smell of beer and piss and hotdogs...I miss the White Sox before they just became another sterile corporate team. Loved my dad for taking me to these games as a wee kid. Still love my Sox, but it's different...Go Go White Sox!

Bill Gleason's commentary was the BEST part about Part 3 😏

I remember some of those vendors