My dad took me and my sister to this game. We didn't have tickets yet, so we ended up in the SRO area on the 1st base side. When Ryno hit #2, my dad literally leaped for joy. I was 16 and had never seen him that excited. My sister was smart and kept her ticket stub which she gifted to me for my HS graduation 2 years later. I still have it. Amazing day!
I remember working until 3 pm . Got to see the last few innings on NBC game of the week . The Sandberg game will never be forgotten if you were a Cubs fan .
This is the third time I'm listening to this with Harry caray and it feels like it's the first time this is what we need in baseball no electronic scoreboards fancy electronics just pure adrenaline from the crowd
1984. As a Tiger fan my favorite year. Going on vacation to FL for two weeks in the summer to visit my grandparents, my grandfather a huge Cub fan, watching the Cubs and Harry on WGN everyday. Some of my best memories.
Joe 3times One humdinger of a season no doubt. I was a Royals fan but got completely wrapped up in Harry Caray and that Cubs team. I made them the team I wanted to win the National League. Between the Cubs that year, your Tigers and that sick 40-5 start or something like that, and the Royals, it to this day, like you said was just one hell of a season. You know, you hear about those special years, like the " Boys of Summer" book where it involved all three NewYork teams....but what about that 1984 season. Yea, special.
That was a hell of a team and one hell of a season for the Cubs. Watched a LOT of Cubs games and listened to a LOT on WGN. Day games at Wrigley field and WGN on the radio at work, old school was the best school.....Take me back!
Mustaches, mulletts and beards, oh my! Watched this live when i was sixteen. What a thrill. Heart broken come playoff time but we finally won it this year and now I can watch these and remember the good old bad days!
Love the call from Harry Caray on the second home run!! Purely unscripted, and it was magic listening to that. To me it ranks at the top as the best call I ever heard from him. What an exhilarating moment that was to see at that time. I can not imagine what Wrigley Field was like at the time he hit the second home run. Euphoric!
There's a line drive. WAY BACK! MIGHT BE OUTTA HERE! IIIT IT IIIISSS!!!! HE DID IT - HE DID IT AGAIN!!! THE GAME IS TIED!!! THE GAME IS TIED!!! HOLY COW!!!! LISTEN TO THIS CROWD!!! EVERYBODY'S GONE BANANAS!!!!
Along with the 6th game of the '75 World Series, this is the greatest game I've ever seen. Ryno is undoubtedly one of the greatest players ever to put on a uniform, in all aspects of the game - simply brilliant. If that 6th game turned me back on to baseball, it was equally thrilling to watch the Cubs of the '80's! I still despise the SD Padres and loved it when the Tigers swept them in the '84 Series.
Interesting note: 1984 was the first season that NBC had exclusivity with their game of the week contract. Until then, the markets of the teams involved were still able to broadcast on local TV. This was the first Cubs Game of the Week in 1984, and so this was the first Cubs home game since 1947 to not be on WGN TV.
Totally agree, awesome to hear Harry "Ah, you can't beat fun at the old ballpark" Caray and the "Good Kid" Lou Boudreau again. WTH did 29 years go? Thanks for sharing this John. Odd seeing a game again where there were more people in the dugouts than on the roof tops.
Thanks for putting this together. I went to opening day in 84. It was a cold rainy day and I ditched school to go to the game. The cubs won 11-3 over a young Dwight gooden who made his MLB debut. Thie 84 season brought hapiness and later sorrow. Nevertheless it will always be cherished unt the day I die.
Dwight Gooden's major league debut was April 7, 1984 against the Houston Astros in Houston at the Astrodome. His next start after that was that cold, rainy Cubs home opener. th-cam.com/video/sc71MWAzttY/w-d-xo.html
One of the most iconic, electric sportscaster's ever in Major League Baseball. I miss Harry all the time. He and Steve Stone had great chemistry together.
I grew up a SF Giants fan,but holy shit does this video give me some serious goose bumps. Watched many a Cubs games and man there will never be anybody who could even hope to replace Harry Caray. RIP sir
I can't believe that I stumbled upon this video!! I WAS THERE with my dad on this amazing day, June 23rd, 1984. I was 14, a Die Hard Cubs Fan and had a major crush on #23. I have attended some spectacular sporting events in my time but nothing compares to this wild and magical game. We were surrounded by Cards fans...they were drunk and loud and in-your-face obnoxious all afternoon until Ryno shocked them into silence. TWICE! NBC was ready to announce WIllie McGee as player of the game for hitting for the cycle. Wow. I got goosebumps all over again watching this. Baseball has changed so much since then...these were special times. I'll never forget that 1984 team. I never thought I'd see this again as I forgot to set my VCR that day. THANK YOU for posting John!!!
+zia1117 wow so cool to hear your experience. this is what makes posting these videos so much fun. I'm a longtime A's fan and have watched alot of baseball over the years, but remember watching this game on NBC and it being one of the best ever....
+John Montana I never got over the Cubs trading Dennis Eckersley to your A's! In my excitement over seeing this video I forgot to mention how cool it is that you found both the WGN radio broadcast AND the tv broadcast and synched them so seamlessly! I have no idea how you managed it but I couldn't ask for a better "blast from the past". Thanks again!!
+zia1117 I first had posted an edited version of the NBC TV broadcast and there were some comments from people in Chicago who had listen to the game on the radio back then and mentioned how great Harry's call of the game was. There's a website that has old sports broadcasts that I knew would have this game so I ordered that and then used some audio editing software to put the two together. It did take about a full day to do but it's a hobby of mine so I had fun.
1 remember watching this game in my financee apartment. Unreal game. You don t see many like that. Sutter's reaction to the HR s. He knew as soon as Ryan hit those 2 pitches.
The great thing about this besides the wonderful turn of events is looking at the field at that time. The brick behind home plate, I remember when it still looked like that. It has been changed since then. The green tarp over the center field bleachers and I think I only saw one or two rooftops across the street with bleachers on them. For me watching the Cubs from the 60s - 80s, those were the days.
I Covered the Cubs as a 24 Year old reporter for a local suburban Chicago radio station (AM1300 WTAQ) during their home games that year, and Yes I was in the old Press Box at Wrigley Field witnessing this memorable game. One thing I remember vividly, 30 years later is the reaction of the old, crusty newspaper beat reporters who rarely showed any emotion during games, and how they almost fell out of the Press Box in astonishment at Sandberg's second home run off of the unflappable Bruce Sutter.
Referenced on today's Cards/Cubs game. Well worth searching but thank you especially for loading Harry's call and dubbing it over the network telecast of Bob Costas. Holy cow!
In all greatness is that moment which disbelief dissolves in such a matter that blurs the line between man and myth. Where you begin to wonder if magic is real. This is one of those moments. There was an electrical crackle surrounding the Cubs' season and yes the year 1984. Maybe it was their theme song "Jump" where apprehensive impetuous youthful exuberance meets experience, as were our 1984 Cubs. You just thought lightning might strike. It did and we all believed in magic.... until the clock struck twelve. Yes 1984 was a great year.
In the early to mid-1980s, in the early days of cable TV (at least for my household), I fondly recall coming home from grade school and catching the last 1/2 to 3/4 of the Cubs' games on WGN...I loved watching these teams, even though I was never what you'd call a Cubs' fan. By any means. But Caray's enthusiasm was just so damn infectious. Ah...those were good days.
MrDunedon Oh man. I Ihave the same memories. Coming home to listen to him and Steve Stone. Harry made me love baseball, and I still do to this day, thanks to Kruk and Kuip.. Harry was so great. "Aah you cant bat fun at the old ballpark !"
MrDunedon I just posted that very same thing on a different Harry Caray. I grew up in the 80s, and loved coming home from school to watch the Cubs games in the afternoon. Something magical about those times. Day baseball, practically non-existent these days.
jrn2121 Yes indeed...something magical about those times for sure. Of course, that was during a time when my hopes and dreams were still alive and the full, depressing weight of the world hadn't crushed me yet. Hey, but I digress. ;-)
MrDunedon You were not the only kid in Chicagoland that would arrive just in time to see the last innings of a game. Those where the best days for Cubs kids fans back then. Harry's voice will always be part of our childhood memories.
Yeah, Harry had the everyman quality about him, the blue collar guy sitting next to you at the bar. He was a fan, you felt that about him. He liked a cold beer and a good lookin' babe sunning in the bleachers. But we also miss Harry because we were 35 years younger then, and we miss those days, don't we. When the Cubs went into the post season in "84", we would turn the TV volume down and listen to Harry on the radio. Isn't it great to have TH-cam and be able to just relive and reminisce about those great times? Just awesome to hear Harry yell "Everybody's Goin' Bananas!"
The version with NBC and Costas is on here somewhere. Costas went into "today's game was produced by...." basically rolling the credits thinking the game is over, and literally 4 seconds later....BOOM...Sandberg nails it!!!
Toronto...we used to see cubs games part of cable for many years....our male cat mao loved listening to Harry...He would sit there and smile while Harry was doing the games...Yes, he was Tiger Fan but he would go right up to the TV on the floor and listen to Harry...
I had the pleasure of listening to this game down in Mesa AZ from the Cubs network through WGN on a Podunk radio station from Coolidge, AZ KCKY. We were working for the Price Club and listened to the game intermittently until the 9th inning with Sanberg's tying homerun, the 10th inning with his tying 2 run homerun with 2 outs, and then the 12th inning with the bases juiced and a game winning single. Besides Harry Caray, was the other announcer Lou Beaudrow? Great game. Great regular season. Sucky playoffs losing to the hapless Friars of San Diego. Thanks for posting this great game and coordinated radio calls.
Great memory. Yes it is Lou Boudreau. Steve Stone was usually with Harry doing radio but because this game was on NBC nationally televised Lou the Cubs TV announcer moved into the radio booth with Caray.
I was there that day and I get goosebumps every time I watch this game. It definitely changed my life and I became a diehard Cubs fan that day and Sandberg was my favorite player of all time until ‘88 when Maddux was my favorite pitcher of all time. June 23, 1984 will forever be a game I’ll never forget
Brandon Van Delden It was just another day game until Sandberg tied it up in the 9th, then it was an exciting game and the crowd was loud with excitement. Then it when The Cards scores 2 in the 10th it was quiet until Sandberg tied it again in 10th with a 2-run HR. I was going nuts and when Dave Owen won it with a pinch hit single, I went crazy and I watched as all the games that season and it was a great game to have been there. Historical game for sure.
@@stevenjschuler1169 ok all you told me here was that the game was exciting. No details. Everybody who knows anything about this game already knows that. Can anybody else give me some fun details about what it was like to be at wrigley field that day???????
33 years later and I still get excited watching this. I was 14 and had to work that day but kept checking in on the score over the radio. I had a feeling that the Cubs would somehow come back and win it that day. Never give up!
John, you are simply awesome...thanks for taking the time to put this up. Trust me, you have made many very happy and I'm personally responsible for bringing tears to the eyes of many Cub fans who have had their memories touched with this video...Baseball is great (especially back in the day) as it can bring back memories of family, etc....many thanks to you and I'm sure I'm not the only one who watch this weekly.
+mep41376 awesome.......great for me to bring some joy to Cub fans. I'm a longtime A's fan but root for the Cubs to finally win a World Series in historic Wrigley.
Almost 30 years ago I watched this game live as a kid and it still gives me goose bumps.I still have this game on VHS, too bad it was the GOW week with Costas announcing and not on WGN with Harry and Steve. Nice job mixing Harry's radio broadcast with the TV feed. We lived about a mile west of Wrigley straight up Grace St. and on a good day we could hear the roar of the crowd from our back porch. I miss these days back when you actually got dirty playing baseball!
As a Cubs fan, that play by Smith to even field that grounder up the middle - let alone make the throw - is amazing. It is forgotten, for obvious reasons, but it’s still a profound play.
I remember this game when I was a teenager. I wish I had a time machine so I could pack my bags and go back to 1984 -1985 and take a 2 year vacation. I wonder if Marty and Doc would have any room in the Delorian?
These were the days when the Cubs/Cards would play more than 12-16 games a season. Used to seem like every other week they would be playing each other. The days before expansion. I remember watching this game as a kid and going crazy watching Ryno's performance.
The atmosphere is so thick you can feel it. "38 thousand and 79 paid." Game of the week really meant something back then...makes me feel sorry for the kids these days...the anticipation and delayed gratification of watching a game *live* from somewhere across the land made it must see for a baseball kid.
Absolutely right. I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons, then I would watch This Week in Base with Mel Allen hosting ("How 'bout that!?"), and then the game of the week. That was so much fun, especially if my team was playing (I'm a White Sox fan. Okay okay, go ahead and let me have it, but if the Cubs were playing, I would root for them for my Dad's sake. Lol). Not everything about yesterday is better than today, but some things were. This definitely was one of them
@@DaDitka Yes! This Week In Baseball was must-see, too. And the music themes they used are instant nostalgia reminding me of how I fell in love with ALL sports.
I remember running home from Fremont elementary school in Riverside CA every day to see ryne ryno Sandberg on wgn when I was a kid...I'm not lying go cubbies go
What I astonishes me is how Bob Denier took the 3 and 2 pitch in the 10th inning which was so close to being a strike. I mean how did he take that good of a pitch given the situation in the game?
It was VERY close, as you said, and I was thinking at the time that the Cubs got a gift. Then Sandberg took advantage of that. I'm not a Cubs fan (my late dad as well as several friends of mine in Wisconsin are, so I pulled for then in 2016 and was happy for them!), but this game caused me to jump on the bandwagon for one year. They just had an exciting team that year. Shame they lost to San Diego in the playoffs, but oh well.
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My aunt used to take me Cub games every summer. We'd sit right on the dugout box seats. I remember Harry walking around and talking with fans before the game. Such a great guy and cool person.
Even though Sandberg went 5 for 6 with 2 homers and 7 RBI's the Player of the Game went to Willie McGee who wound up hitting for the cycle because of Sandberg's 1st HR. I believe it was announced in the top of the 9th before he had his double. On behalf of all present and future Cubs fans I want to thank you for taking the time to put this together John.
This was still the age of innocence for the Cubs. People still lived in those buildings across the street and could go up on the roof to watch the game. Soon they became corporate-owned and the Cubs even demanded a share of the revenues. And there were no lights back then--all games were played in the daytime.
this crowd was nuts and so loud, but imagine if they win it all, just how loud do you think that will get? I get goosebumps just thinking of what that sound would be like.
Great job preserving this classic from another exciting point of view-Harry! "Baseball's Greatest Games" DVD should have done the dual audio on their official release of that classic game so many of us remember as if it was yesterday. Even in California.
Sandberg's 9th inning at bat 1st pitch taken low for a ball. 2nd pitch generous strike call on the outside corner (Sandberg obviously annoyed) 3rd pitch right in the wheelhouse and long gone... Sandberg's 10th inning at bat 1st pitch taken low for a ball. 2nd pitch generous strike call on the outside corner (Sandberg obviously annoyed) 3rd pitch right in the wheelhouse and long gone... If the pitch sequence didn't work the first time, why the hell did they think it would the second time?
I was six years old but I remember how up for grabs the place was. This was the moment when everyone started to believe in the Cubs and they took off afterward like a rocket. It was just magic.
For many reasons including the Cubs, 1984 was the best summer of my life.
My best year also. For so many reasons, and the Cubs were the icing on top of it all.
My dad took me and my sister to this game. We didn't have tickets yet, so we ended up in the SRO area on the 1st base side. When Ryno hit #2, my dad literally leaped for joy. I was 16 and had never seen him that excited. My sister was smart and kept her ticket stub which she gifted to me for my HS graduation 2 years later. I still have it. Amazing day!
I remember working until 3 pm . Got to see the last few innings on NBC game of the week . The Sandberg game will never be forgotten if you were a Cubs fan .
This is the third time I'm listening to this with Harry caray and it feels like it's the first time this is what we need in baseball no electronic scoreboards fancy electronics just pure adrenaline from the crowd
This was my first Cubs game I attended. Incredible game. Go Cubs!
You picked a helluva game. 8)
Wow. That’s magic! Where did you sit?
Awesome!!!
1984. As a Tiger fan my favorite year. Going on vacation to FL for two weeks in the summer to visit my grandparents, my grandfather a huge Cub fan, watching the Cubs and Harry on WGN everyday. Some of my best memories.
Joe 3times One humdinger of a season no doubt. I was a Royals fan but got completely wrapped up in Harry Caray and that Cubs team. I made them the team I wanted to win the National League. Between the Cubs that year, your Tigers and that sick 40-5 start or something like that, and the Royals, it to this day, like you said was just one hell of a season. You know, you hear about those special years, like the " Boys of Summer" book where it involved all three NewYork teams....but what about that 1984 season. Yea, special.
I still get chills watching this and listening to the best all of time Harry Caray, GO CUBS!!!
me too. Amazing the supercharged atmosphere.
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The good old days of WGN. Didn't get much better than that .
It’s the greatest regular season game in the history of baseball. No game was better-every single aspect of this afternoon defines the sport.
absolutely right
One of the greatest games in Cubs history, period!!!!
+Adam Dorgant Agreed.RIP Harry - no one called it and had the passion to do it like him.
+B H Mch You got that right, we all miss Harry greatly!!!!
One of the greatest games in Cardinals history too!
The Cubs have a sad history.
That was a hell of a team and one hell of a season for the Cubs. Watched a LOT of Cubs games and listened to a LOT on WGN. Day games at Wrigley field and WGN on the radio at work, old school was the best school.....Take me back!
Mustaches, mulletts and beards, oh my!
Watched this live when i was sixteen. What a thrill. Heart broken come playoff time but we finally won it this year and now I can watch these and remember the good old bad days!
Love the call from Harry Caray on the second home run!! Purely unscripted, and it was magic listening to that. To me it ranks at the top as the best call I ever heard from him. What an exhilarating moment that was to see at that time. I can not imagine what Wrigley Field was like at the time he hit the second home run. Euphoric!
There's a line drive. WAY BACK! MIGHT BE OUTTA HERE! IIIT IT IIIISSS!!!! HE DID IT - HE DID IT AGAIN!!! THE GAME IS TIED!!! THE GAME IS TIED!!! HOLY COW!!!! LISTEN TO THIS CROWD!!! EVERYBODY'S GONE BANANAS!!!!
I know Right!!!!
Harry is the greatest announcer in baseball history and Vin is a loooooong way behind, I’m sorry it’s the truth.
Along with the 6th game of the '75 World Series, this is the greatest game I've ever seen. Ryno is undoubtedly one of the greatest players ever to put on a uniform, in all aspects of the game - simply brilliant. If that 6th game turned me back on to baseball, it was equally thrilling to watch the Cubs of the '80's! I still despise the SD Padres and loved it when the Tigers swept them in the '84 Series.
've never heard Harry Caray's version of the sandberg game until now...thanks
I believe the game was national on NBC so Harry would have been on WGN radio.
@@jeremiahwasabullfrog957 Yeah it was on NBC with Bob Costas and Tony Kubek
MrCHITOWN247 Kubek :-p
@@furnitureconsortium stupid typo 😂😂
Interesting note: 1984 was the first season that NBC had exclusivity with their game of the week contract. Until then, the markets of the teams involved were still able to broadcast on local TV. This was the first Cubs Game of the Week in 1984, and so this was the first Cubs home game since 1947 to not be on WGN TV.
2019, came hear to turn back the clock 35 years. I needed this !!
Totally agree, awesome to hear Harry "Ah, you can't beat fun at the old ballpark" Caray and the "Good Kid" Lou Boudreau again. WTH did 29 years go? Thanks for sharing this John. Odd seeing a game again where there were more people in the dugouts than on the roof tops.
Thanks for putting this together. I went to opening day in 84. It was a cold rainy day and I ditched school to go to the game. The cubs won 11-3 over a young Dwight gooden who made his MLB debut. Thie 84 season brought hapiness and later sorrow. Nevertheless it will always be cherished unt the day I die.
Dwight Gooden's major league debut was April 7, 1984 against the Houston Astros in Houston at the Astrodome. His next start after that was that cold, rainy Cubs home opener. th-cam.com/video/sc71MWAzttY/w-d-xo.html
One of the most iconic, electric sportscaster's ever in Major League Baseball. I miss Harry all the time. He and Steve Stone had great chemistry together.
I grew up a SF Giants fan,but holy shit does this video give me some serious goose bumps. Watched many a Cubs games and man there will never be anybody who could even hope to replace Harry Caray. RIP sir
I can't believe this was my first Cubs game I went too. Unreal. I was 13 years old then. Made me a true Cubs fan that day.
haha good for you. awesome
You are one lucky (you know what)…I get goose bumps reminiscing this game…
I watched it at a golf course pro shop...
how was the celebration?
Sandberg 2 clutch homers and 6RBI. Ozzie scores 4 runs and McGee hits for the cycle. What a Game!
Agreed!!!!!
Sandberg had 7 RBI
I became a Cub fan this day, still going strong over 31 years later! #gocubsgo
Attended that game with my dad and his colleagues from Danville at age 21. We were on the left field line...what a game...what great memories.
Ben Oreskovich It was one of the greatest games in Cubs History, I have to say!!!
My daughter was at this game also, 13 yrs old. Loves her Cubs.
I can't believe that I stumbled upon this video!! I WAS THERE with my dad on this amazing day, June 23rd, 1984. I was 14, a Die Hard Cubs Fan and had a major crush on #23. I have attended some spectacular sporting events in my time but nothing compares to this wild and magical game. We were surrounded by Cards fans...they were drunk and loud and in-your-face obnoxious all afternoon until Ryno shocked them into silence. TWICE! NBC was ready to announce WIllie McGee as player of the game for hitting for the cycle. Wow. I got goosebumps all over again watching this. Baseball has changed so much since then...these were special times. I'll never forget that 1984 team. I never thought I'd see this again as I forgot to set my VCR that day. THANK YOU for posting John!!!
+zia1117 wow so cool to hear your experience. this is what makes posting these videos so much fun. I'm a longtime A's fan and have watched alot of baseball over the years, but remember watching this game on NBC and it being one of the best ever....
+John Montana I never got over the Cubs trading Dennis Eckersley to your A's! In my excitement over seeing this video I forgot to mention how cool it is that you found both the WGN radio broadcast AND the tv broadcast and synched them so seamlessly! I have no idea how you managed it but I couldn't ask for a better "blast from the past". Thanks again!!
+zia1117 I first had posted an edited version of the NBC TV broadcast and there were some comments from people in Chicago who had listen to the game on the radio back then and mentioned how great Harry's call of the game was. There's a website that has old sports broadcasts that I knew would have this game so I ordered that and then used some audio editing software to put the two together. It did take about a full day to do but it's a hobby of mine so I had fun.
1 remember watching this game in my financee apartment.
Unreal game. You don t see many like that. Sutter's reaction to the HR s.
He knew as soon as Ryan hit those 2 pitches.
You were there?...You are a very lucky Cubs fan...
The great thing about this besides the wonderful turn of events is looking at the field at that time. The brick behind home plate, I remember when it still looked like that. It has been changed since then. The green tarp over the center field bleachers and I think I only saw one or two rooftops across the street with bleachers on them. For me watching the Cubs from the 60s - 80s, those were the days.
Man, that was a great year. Got to about 5 games at Wrigley that year. Great time to be in high school.
I was at this game at 6 years old. I fell in love and have known heartbreak because of it.
I Covered the Cubs as a 24 Year old reporter for a local suburban Chicago radio station (AM1300 WTAQ) during their home games that year, and Yes I was in the old Press Box at Wrigley Field witnessing this memorable game. One thing I remember vividly, 30 years later is the reaction of the old, crusty newspaper beat reporters who rarely showed any emotion during games, and how they almost fell out of the Press Box in astonishment at Sandberg's second home run off of the unflappable Bruce Sutter.
Referenced on today's Cards/Cubs game. Well worth searching but thank you especially for loading Harry's call and dubbing it over the network telecast of Bob Costas. Holy cow!
In all greatness is that moment which disbelief dissolves in such a matter that blurs the line between man and myth. Where you begin to wonder if magic is real.
This is one of those moments. There was an electrical crackle surrounding the Cubs' season and yes the year 1984. Maybe it was their theme song "Jump" where apprehensive impetuous youthful exuberance meets experience, as were our 1984 Cubs. You just thought lightning might strike. It did and we all believed in magic....
until the clock struck twelve. Yes 1984 was a great year.
Ryne Sandberg 9th inning at bat at 11:40.........Sandberg 10th inning at bat at 34:00.
It was one of the greatest games in Chicago Cubs History, period!!!!
buckpasser55 Good to know, the Cubs are once again in the NLCS!!!
But the greatest game in Cubs history was Wednesday, November 2, 2016
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In Baseball - period!
GO CUBS - GO !!!!!!!!!
Holy Cow. I was in middle school watching these games. Still gets me excited watching this
In the early to mid-1980s, in the early days of cable TV (at least for my household), I fondly recall coming home from grade school and catching the last 1/2 to 3/4 of the Cubs' games on WGN...I loved watching these teams, even though I was never what you'd call a Cubs' fan. By any means. But Caray's enthusiasm was just so damn infectious. Ah...those were good days.
MrDunedon Same here. I was not a Cubs fan, but I could listen to Harry all day. He was awesome.
MrDunedon
Oh man. I Ihave the same memories. Coming home to listen to him and Steve Stone. Harry made me love baseball, and I still do to this day, thanks to Kruk and Kuip.. Harry was so great. "Aah you cant bat fun at the old ballpark !"
MrDunedon I just posted that very same thing on a different Harry Caray. I grew up in the 80s, and loved coming home from school to watch the Cubs games in the afternoon. Something magical about those times. Day baseball, practically non-existent these days.
jrn2121
Yes indeed...something magical about those times for sure. Of course, that was during a time when my hopes and dreams were still alive and the full, depressing weight of the world hadn't crushed me yet. Hey, but I digress. ;-)
MrDunedon You were not the only kid in Chicagoland that would arrive just in time to see the last innings of a game. Those where the best days for Cubs kids fans back then. Harry's voice will always be part of our childhood memories.
"Listen to the crowd." Man I miss Harry.
Me too man me too😥
Yeah, Harry had the everyman quality about him, the blue collar guy sitting next to you at the bar. He was a fan, you felt that about him. He liked a cold beer and a good lookin' babe sunning in the bleachers. But we also miss Harry because we were 35 years younger then, and we miss those days, don't we. When the Cubs went into the post season in "84", we would turn the TV volume down and listen to Harry on the radio. Isn't it great to have TH-cam and be able to just relive and reminisce about those great times? Just awesome to hear Harry yell "Everybody's Goin' Bananas!"
I read this comment just as Harry said it.
Me to I love Harry
I know Right!!!
I think I watched the NBC game on a black and white tv with Bob Costas and Tony Kubek calling it. Thank you for posting this. This made my day.
The version with NBC and Costas is on here somewhere. Costas went into "today's game was produced by...." basically rolling the credits thinking the game is over, and literally 4 seconds later....BOOM...Sandberg nails it!!!
watched game with my friend Angelo 11 years old on tv still the greatest game I've ever seen Sandburg was lights out that day.
Toronto...we used to see cubs games part of cable for many years....our male cat
mao loved listening to Harry...He would sit there and smile while Harry was doing the games...Yes, he was Tiger Fan but he would go right up to the TV on the floor and listen to Harry...
To this day, my favorite Cub team and favorite announcer!
oh the nostalgia ! !I remember the roar from where I was standing swimming at Gills park.
I love the appreciation Harry and Lou Boudreau gave to the Cards. Respect for the opposition. Good!
My dad took me to this game when I was 16. I still have the SRO ticket stub. Best day ever!!
two words UNBELIEVABLE AND HISTORIC!!
Agreed!!!!
I had the pleasure of listening to this game down in Mesa AZ from the Cubs network through WGN on a Podunk radio station from Coolidge, AZ KCKY. We were working for the Price Club and listened to the game intermittently until the 9th inning with Sanberg's tying homerun, the 10th inning with his tying 2 run homerun with 2 outs, and then the 12th inning with the bases juiced and a game winning single. Besides Harry Caray, was the other announcer Lou Beaudrow? Great game. Great regular season. Sucky playoffs losing to the hapless Friars of San Diego. Thanks for posting this great game and coordinated radio calls.
Great memory. Yes it is Lou Boudreau. Steve Stone was usually with Harry doing radio but because this game was on NBC nationally televised Lou the Cubs TV announcer moved into the radio booth with Caray.
I remember this game from when I was very young. Great memories of this season. Thank you so much for posting this.
Brings back a lot of memories!
I was there that day and I get goosebumps every time I watch this game. It definitely changed my life and I became a diehard Cubs fan that day and Sandberg was my favorite player of all time until ‘88 when Maddux was my favorite pitcher of all time. June 23, 1984 will forever be a game I’ll never forget
GIVE US MORE DETAILS! I want to know more about what it was like in the stands.
Brandon Van Delden It was just another day game until Sandberg tied it up in the 9th, then it was an exciting game and the crowd was loud with excitement. Then it when The Cards scores 2 in the 10th it was quiet until Sandberg tied it again in 10th with a 2-run HR. I was going nuts and when Dave Owen won it with a pinch hit single, I went crazy and I watched as all the games that season and it was a great game to have been there. Historical game for sure.
@@stevenjschuler1169 ok all you told me here was that the game was exciting. No details. Everybody who knows anything about this game already knows that. Can anybody else give me some fun details about what it was like to be at wrigley field that day???????
33 years later and I still get excited watching this. I was 14 and had to work that day but kept checking in on the score over the radio. I had a feeling that the Cubs would somehow come back and win it that day. Never give up!
John, you are simply awesome...thanks for taking the time to put this up. Trust me, you have made many very happy and I'm personally responsible for bringing tears to the eyes of many Cub fans who have had their memories touched with this video...Baseball is great (especially back in the day) as it can bring back memories of family, etc....many thanks to you and I'm sure I'm not the only one who watch this weekly.
+mep41376 awesome.......great for me to bring some joy to Cub fans. I'm a longtime A's fan but root for the Cubs to finally win a World Series in historic Wrigley.
+John Mongani I could finally cross that off my bucket list!!! :-P
He was SOOOO beloved by the Cubs fans--the way Phil('the Scooter") Rizzuto was to the Yankee fans.
I remember watching this game on WGN. One of the greatest games I've ever seen.
I LOVE this!
Almost 30 years ago I watched this game live as a kid and it still gives me goose bumps.I still have this game on VHS, too bad it was the GOW week with Costas announcing and not on WGN with Harry and Steve. Nice job mixing Harry's radio broadcast with the TV feed. We lived about a mile west of Wrigley straight up Grace St. and on a good day we could hear the roar of the crowd from our back porch. I miss these days back when you actually got dirty playing baseball!
As a Cubs fan, that play by Smith to even field that grounder up the middle - let alone make the throw - is amazing. It is forgotten, for obvious reasons, but it’s still a profound play.
Indeed, even Harry Caray is gushing about it in this video. A spectacular play.
I remember this game when I was a teenager. I wish I had a time machine so I could pack my bags and go back to 1984 -1985 and take a 2 year vacation. I wonder if Marty and Doc would have any room in the Delorian?
Jim Law let’s go!
THE game. I remember it very clearly. Ahhh. Thanks for posting it!
Boys I remember watching this.....wonderful game, memories and season for the CUbs. This is how you broadcast a game. Harry Carey rocked.
What an awesome atmosphere at this game. Regular season baseball crowds are not usually this loud.
When the Cubs and Cards are both playing well and each other, this is what you get. This was what every game during 1998 and 2003 were like...
Yes it was a great atmosphere at that game, no question!!!!
I love and miss Harry Carey so damned much. RIP GOAT broadcaster!
I've had a chance to meet most of this team over the years. What a wonderful season. Thanks so much for sharing this!
Alot of good memories thank you jack brickhouse harry carry
Golden age. I wish I was there as a child
Happy 100th Birthday Harry and Wrigley Field!
ill love haray and the cubs forever that is great get your spirit going
84 Cubs team was a great team and fun team to watch.
Before lights at Wrigley, I love it!!!
Wow! Ozzie! Amazing. I'm a Cub, but...Ozzie. You are great.
An absolutely incredible game.
Agreed!!!
Kudos to John Mongani for putting this together!
Agreed!!
Harry was great on the radio!
These were the days when the Cubs/Cards would play more than 12-16 games a season. Used to seem like every other week they would be playing each other. The days before expansion.
I remember watching this game as a kid and going crazy watching Ryno's performance.
They STILL play 18-19 times a year. Back then, they BOTH played the Pirates, Phillies, Expos, and Mets 18 times EACH.
They STILL play 18-19 times a year. Back then, they BOTH played the Pirates, Phillies, Expos, and Mets 18 times EACH.
Yes corn. Loved that game. Best ever
Divisional games 18. Non-division 12. 90 + 72 = 162.
Harry still had a quick delivery here,full of energy.
It was before his stroke.
Wow. That was before money and greed really took over the game. A simpler time in life and I kinda miss it.
LOVE the recognition of the opposition by Harry. Class.Ozzie was great on D. He just appreciated good baseball.
The atmosphere is so thick you can feel it. "38 thousand and 79 paid." Game of the week really meant something back then...makes me feel sorry for the kids these days...the anticipation and delayed gratification of watching a game *live* from somewhere across the land made it must see for a baseball kid.
Absolutely right. I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons, then I would watch This Week in Base with Mel Allen hosting ("How 'bout that!?"), and then the game of the week. That was so much fun, especially if my team was playing (I'm a White Sox fan. Okay okay, go ahead and let me have it, but if the Cubs were playing, I would root for them for my Dad's sake. Lol).
Not everything about yesterday is better than today, but some things were. This definitely was one of them
@@DaDitka Yes! This Week In Baseball was must-see, too. And the music themes they used are instant nostalgia reminding me of how I fell in love with ALL sports.
That is what made Sandberg a hall of famer.
How wonderful to see my Cubbies 7 years before I became a fan and to see the buildings again, most of all, to hear Harry Caray again.
Greatest game I ever saw!
What an unbelievably beautiful call.
Thanks for the upload 😁
I remember running home from Fremont elementary school in Riverside CA every day to see ryne ryno Sandberg on wgn when I was a kid...I'm not lying go cubbies go
What I astonishes me is how Bob Denier took the 3 and 2 pitch in the 10th inning which was so close to being a strike. I mean how did he take that good of a pitch given the situation in the game?
It was VERY close, as you said, and I was thinking at the time that the Cubs got a gift. Then Sandberg took advantage of that.
I'm not a Cubs fan (my late dad as well as several friends of mine in Wisconsin are, so I pulled for then in 2016 and was happy for them!), but this game caused me to jump on the bandwagon for one year. They just had an exciting team that year. Shame they lost to San Diego in the playoffs, but oh well.
My aunt used to take me Cub games every summer. We'd sit right on the dugout box seats. I remember Harry walking around and talking with fans before the game. Such a great guy and cool person.
Even though Sandberg went 5 for 6 with 2 homers and 7 RBI's the Player of the Game went to Willie McGee who wound up hitting for the cycle because of Sandberg's 1st HR. I believe it was announced in the top of the 9th before he had his double. On behalf of all present and future Cubs fans I want to thank you for taking the time to put this together John.
NBC changed it and awarded it to both.
Nothing more awesome than hearing Harry Caray call an exciting Cubs game.
Man, Sandberg had such an awesome snap on his swing. I'm a Sandberg guy.
I remember seeing this game 30+ years ago.
Just amazing. My Cub!
This was still the age of innocence for the Cubs. People still lived in those buildings across the street and could go up on the roof to watch the game. Soon they became corporate-owned and the Cubs even demanded a share of the revenues. And there were no lights back then--all games were played in the daytime.
That's correct, it was rained out. The young players, including a very young Greg Maddux, were out there practicing slides on the wet tarp.
@@skatefan9495 Les Lancaster and Greg Maddux
Bruce Sutter disliked this 33 times
He didn't like the end of the 23-22 Cubs v. Phillies game in '79 either. He was a great pitcher though.
@@nesnejls Hall of Famer in fact. Nobody's perfect though.
54 Times To Be Correct.
Miss ya Harry
hardlines4 We all miss Harry Greatly!!!
I remember this game. Greatest time for baseball!
This game changed my life for better or for worse.
Frey and Zim managed this game masterfully. With due respect, so did Whitey Herzog. A very FINE manager. As a Cubs fan, I had GREAT respect for him.
this crowd was nuts and so loud, but imagine if they win it all, just how loud do you think that will get? I get goosebumps just thinking of what that sound would be like.
Holy Cow that was fun Thanks
Great job preserving this classic from another exciting point of view-Harry!
"Baseball's Greatest Games" DVD should have done the dual audio on their official release of that classic game so many of us remember as if it was yesterday. Even in California.
I was in law school and fell asleep on the couch with this game on the tube and the Cubs down 7-1. When I woke up the game was over!! lol
Greatest game I've ever seen.
Sandberg's 9th inning at bat
1st pitch taken low for a ball.
2nd pitch generous strike call on the outside corner (Sandberg obviously annoyed)
3rd pitch right in the wheelhouse and long gone...
Sandberg's 10th inning at bat
1st pitch taken low for a ball.
2nd pitch generous strike call on the outside corner (Sandberg obviously annoyed)
3rd pitch right in the wheelhouse and long gone...
If the pitch sequence didn't work the first time, why the hell did they think it would the second time?
I was in the crowd! it was total mayhem, took over 2hrs to get out of the ballpark!
I was six years old but I remember how up for grabs the place was. This was the moment when everyone started to believe in the Cubs and they took off afterward like a rocket. It was just magic.