It's actually easy to affirm the date of this game as October 8th, game one. Notice the Philadelphia pitcher at 5:15 with the underhand delivery (also notice him warming up, and the underhand delivery, at 3:20) . That's Howard Ehmke, who set a World Series record that day with 13 strikeouts. The record wouldn't be broken until Carl Erskine struck out 14 in a game vs. the Yankees in 1953. It was also the last victory of Ehmke's career.
The man with the megaphone is none other that Pat Pieper, legendary PA announcer at Wrigley until 1974. This is definitly something that the Cub's organization and Baseball's Hall Of Fame would have interest in. A reel GEM ! Thanks for posting!
The 1929 & 1930 Philadelphia Athletics had a great team with world series Title, in 1931 the Athletics with 107 win was totally insane. Everybody is talking about the great NY Yankees of 1927 and rightly so but let's not forget that great Philadelphia Athletics team with outstanding players like Lefty Grove, Jim Cronin, Eddie Rommel, All Simmons and their outstanding manager.
Great video. One thing I noticed toward the end of the film. I looked for a male that wasn't wearing some kind of hat & couldn't find one. Thinks have really changed since then. 1930 was the year that Hack Wilson set the RBI record that still stands today at 191. It was also the year that Bill Terry was the last player in the N.L. to hit for over a .400 average.
And Hack was a booze- fueled METEORITE that burned out way too soon.His pic is still on the clubhouse door at Wrigley as a warning to young ballplayers.
All I can say is WOW! What a tremendous artifact. It's the oldest Cub world series footage I have ever seen and I believe it was the first World Series at Wrigley Feild. The Cubs earlier 1918 appearance against the Red Sox was played at Cominskey Park because of the increased seating capacity there. The upper deck at Wrigley was brand new in this film - built around '28 or '29.
I am a hotdog seat vendor at Wrigley and enjoy looking at this footage. It's amazing how the park has changed since this footage was taken. Very interesting.
That's great stuff. It's amazing how the sublties of the game really haven't changed over the last 80 years, other than the pitchers today taking forever to throw the damn ball.
That is the most incredible footage I've ever seen of Wrigley Field and the Cubs. This has to be incorporated into a Cubs documentary somehow. Amazing.
Thanks for posting this. Very interesting, especially the brief street scenes. I grew up in Philadelphia and have seen home video footage of some of the games in Philly from the 1929 Series, as well. I also can't help but think how the Great Depression was right around the corner for all these people.
This is incredible to see a first hand account of sitting in the stands along with all the fans via a fan's perspective. The quality of the film is very good as well.
--> The opening footage is Wrigley Field on Opening day 1930. Actually, it is Flag Day, 1930. --> around the 5:30 mark, we get brief footage of Chicago during the 1929 Series. Actually, the WS begins at 3:19 and continues until the end.
excellent video. I don't care what anyone says, I love being a Cub fan and always will be. I've sat in just about every area of Wrigley, and never sat in a bad seat. It's a special field and I have a lot of wonderful memories of every visit. I grew up in Wrigley Ville, met quite a few of the players from the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's and 80's. When the Cubs make it to the big game, I know it'll be special for all the long time fans. So anyway, Thanks and good luck.
Even sitting under the scoreboard was cool.Met Phil Cavaretta in '87 in a row behind home( he was a NY Met scout).I said hello and said" you were N.L.MVP in '45 and played on 3 Cub WS teams here.And went to Lane Tech right down Addison". He smiled and said " yep". Nice man- wondered what was going through his mind looking at that field?
I am a ballpark vendor at Wrigley, and a fan of the Cubs. I love anything from this era when they went to the WS pretty much every 3 years ...very unlike today. Great to see how different the park looked back then, with pretty much the same buildings on Waveland & Sheffield. Thanks for uploading this. Wonderful!
Yes, it is Howard Ehmke. There is a book coming out next month about Charlie Root, and they will be using still "snapshots" from this film. One of them will be of Ehmke's delivery that you see as he warms up on the sidelines.
Back when people had dignity and class. When people, for the most part, worked hard, had respect for each other and took responsibility for their actions in life. It was really nice to watch an even where people weren't glued to their devices and not watching the game!
This is great. Back when the WS was played in early october and in the DAY! No night WS with pitchers blowing on their hands cause it's 40 degrees, even though the daytime high was 64.
I can't wait until we have virtual reality machines that will be able to turn data like this into a fully immersive experience. Make it feel like you were really there minus the smell of the cigar smoke unless they invent smell o vision. What a dream it would be to go back in time to a classic world series game!
Really cool. I love old footage like this!! Thanks for posting! I live in one of those buildings shown ( I think), next to wrigley, really cool to see it like this : )
This is such a fantastic old film! Thank you for sharing it. Obviously taken before Bill Veeck had the ivy walls and famous scoreboard installed. Many of the same familiar buildings beyond the outfield walls now support rooftop bleachers. I remember my dad telling me many times that when the Cubs lost that series, he was so disgusted he became a White Sox fan and made sure I was one, too. When the White Sox lost the 1964 pennant by one game to the dreaded Yankees, I was so disgusted I became a Cubs fan! The city of Chicago has had many great teams, but, as someone wrote on a bed sheet held up years ago at Soldier Field during a Bears' game: "Chicago....more dog teams than the Yukon!"
The first few minutes of marching and hoisting the 1929 pennant were taken on June 21, 1930, during a doubleheader against the Boston Braves, along with some of the game action shots.
This was only 21 yrs since Cubs won their last World Series in 1908. Capone was probably mad cubs were in and not his be- loved White Sox. Thankx for putting this film up. I always knew the A,s were a top team before they moved to Kansas City and Oakland.
Shit I was cruising thru baseball nastagla and I saw this remember the jokes on me but I thought I saw I was only 21 years old when the Cubs last won the World Series I was like your either Beetlejuice or your In possession of the Holy Grail either way we have to talk
When I first posted the film, I didn't realize that the film was splice out of sequence. Thus, the first part of the film posted here is actually from Flag Day 1930. This was in June, AFTER their World Series appearance the previous October. They hoist the pennant from the previous year as part of the ceremonies. Then, the film cuts (at about 3:15) back in time to October 8, 1929 and the first game of the World Series.
@@davidbondehagen1616 I posted this video immediately after I transferred it for a client and did not realize, until after I posted it, that the first couple of minutes are NOT the World Series but are instead from the "Flag Day" game played the following June when the Cubs hoisted the pennant that they won the previous fall. So, the scores on the scoreboard are from other games being played that day. Obviously there would have been no other scores during the World Series game. So, chronologically, the clip is out of order. Read my description (below the video) for more information about this, along with other information readers discovered after I posted the film, all those years ago.
In this video at 5:30 it says this game was on either Oct. 8th or 9th 1929. I believe it is on the 8th. My reasoning for that is Howard Ehmke started the 1st game for the A's on the 8th. If you notice at about 4:47 & right after that, the pitcher is sidearmed. Ehmke was a side armed pitcher & he threw the entire game. None of the other starters of the 1st two games were sidearmed pitchers & as far as I can tell. Maybe someone else might be able to add something to this.
I think you're right -- it almost had to be Ehmke. Did you know Ehmke almost pitched consecutive no hitters in 1923? The only hit in the game after his no hitter was a hot shot that bounced off of third baseman Howie Shanks" chest on the first play of the game. Scorer Fred Lieb called it a hit. Ehmke then proceeded to shutout the Yanks without a hit, walking only one. People tried to pressure Lieb into changing the hit to an error, but he refused. Howie Shanks was traded to the Yankees a couple years later, and he told Lieb that he always felt that he should have made the play. Lieb discusses this in his book Baseball as I Have Known It.
WFLD-TV in Chicago contacted me (and the owner of the footage) last June and used it as part of featurette that ran after one of the Cubs-Sox inter-league games.
I recently received an email from the 90-year-old daughter of Charlie Root, the game one starting pitcher. I sent her several blow-up frames from the film and she has identified the pitcher as her dad. Now that I have this input, I think the film is game one from October 8. Also, when I first posted the film, I didn't realize that the reel had been spliced out of order. Prior to 3:15, when you see the lefty pitchers, the film is from Flag Day 1930. At 3:15, the 1929 series starts.
As someone who has been to Wrigley hundreds of times, this is great video and one of the oldest I know of. Interesting to see the red line el train passing between the buildings at 2:17 and to see the SRO crowd hanging on the ramps to the upper deck. A lot has changed at Addison and Clark in Chicago but much has remained the same.
I do 16mm film transfers for friends and family. This one person had a whole reel from 1929 of nothing but sports. Definitely one-of-a-kind stuff, possibly with some real historical significance.
I am a White Sox fan, but I have always liked Wrigley Field (And miss old Comiskey Park). This is a cool Video. I bet Capone was in the stands somewhere.
It was taken in 1929. Movies were silent back then. Hollywood added sound to a few films in 1927-28, but home movie film didn't get sound for a long, long time.
Starting around 3:19 the footage cuts to game one of the 1929 Series on October 8, 1929. Looking from behind home plate, we first see Cubs pitcher Charlie Root pitching to the first batter in the series in the top of the first, Athletics second baseman Max Bishop. The film cuts right as he's about to ground out to first base. Then we cut to the bottom of the first, with Athletics submarine pitcher Howard Ehmke pitching. The batter is likely Norm McMillan, the Cubs third baseman.
"All those people are probably dead." -- Actually, not quite. I was just contacted by the daughter of the starting Cubs pitcher (Charlie Root). She and her mom were sitting just next to where the World Series footage begins (it starts at 3:15 in the above movie). She is now 90, so was about 10 at that time. She has identified her dad from high-res still snapshots I have sent, showing her dad.
@@jonnywishbone17 I long ago restored this video, removing dirt and sharpening. I could re-upload but I can't put the same video on the same URL, so I'd have to start the view count all over again.
Yes, there were consumer film movie cameras way back then. 16mm film was introduced as a consumer format in 1922. The film was very expensive and remained expensive to this very day. As a result, Kodak came up with the idea of slitting the film down the length of the film, thus creating an 8mm format. This happened in 1932. It was over 30 years before the next format, Super8, was introduced. It used smaller sprocket holes, which resulted in a larger image and therefore better quality than 8mm.
@MFPhoto1 Murphy's is at the corrner of Waveland and Shefiled. where the old pin wheel from the old Comiskey park scoreboard is(now painted a Harry's face)
I gave a long explanation in one of the first comments (go back to the beginning of these posts). Short version: it was taken by my high school girlfriend's grandfather and had been sitting in her attic for thirty years. I transferred it for her. WFLD-TV did a short human interest piece about us and the film in June 2007.
Well this was a pretty neat video to see. I am Cards fan first and Cubs fan second(yes it can happen). While new modern stadiums have their spot I do hope that Wrigley is held onto as long as possible. It is a beautiful park with a great atmosphere. I have attended a few games there now and besides for the random Cards bashing(to be expected to some extent) everything at the park was extremely nice.
MY DAD LIVED A FEW BLOCKS FROM THEIR,HE WENT TO LANE TECT IN 1929 WHEN I WAS A KID 1940S HE WOULD TAKE ME TO GAMES,GOOD OLD DAYS,IN THE 40S THE PARK ALMOST LOOKED THE SAME AS NOW.HIS HERO WAS HACK WILSON ,MINE WAS HANK SOUR...
Interesting tidbit. Notice on the scoreboard where Cubs playing Boston (Braves), the Cubs were listed first. Until around 1938, the home team had the choice of batting first or not.
Wrigley Field looks much the same except no IVY walls and the outfield bleachers were much closer. The scoreboard is lower in center field. Great movie footage.Bravo!
@therealjoebloggs There were field level seats in left and right center. The scoreboard, about 440 feet from home plate, was in straight away center. There seems to be some extra seating in the outfield for the series. A photo I have of Wrigley taken about 7-8 years later shows fewer outfield seats. The walkways in the back of the infield seats and upper deck look familiar. Most everything else has changed, except for the neighborhood.
One of the best A's teams ever. Still it's amazing the the same Yankee team that was so completely dominate the two prior years just fell apart that year.
The flag day footage looks like it was shot on Friday, June 20, 1930. I see that the schedule on the scoreboard has all the teams that played each other on that date, the crowd looks like about 35,000 (the reported attendance for that day) and the Cubs were out of town on actual flag day (June 14). I notice if you look carefully at about 3:50 into it, when facing the right field stands after the flag has been hoisted, you can see an El train going by between the houses on Sheffield.
Thanks for very interesting historical footage. The more things change, the more they stay the same. It's clear to see though, that the game was played differently and you can't really compare stats from then to the modern era...though it is fun.
Nope, this is most definitely Wrigley Field. You can see some of the buildings in the outfield that are still standing. The ivy and the scoreboard came later.
@@johnmeyer77 After a closer look you are correct. I thought the houses beyond the right field wall looked like Shibe but you are right it's Wrigley. The amazing thing about Wrigley is the iconic ballpark was seldom visited Phil Wrigley. The fact he had such little interest in the team probably is what saved Wrigley Field from suffering the fate of every other park aside from Fenway. Phil Wrigley was too cheap and disinterested to build a new ballpark. Now to paraphrase George Burns Wrigley got so old it became new again.
100% certain, yes, it was Wrigley. You can use Google image search and find pics from this era and see the huge centerfield scoreboard. Also, look at the buildings in right field. Many of them still stand.
You are correct: the first part of the film is from the spring of 1930, on Flag Day, when they hoisted the pennant that they won the previous fall. However, the World Series footage IS there, and starts at the 3:14 mark.
The first part is Flag Day 1930; the second part (taken behind the backstop) is the World Series 1929 (note the bunting in the stands and everyone is dressed VERY warmly).
I received an email that explains several mysteries. This clip is apparently not in chronological order. The first part is Flag Day, 1930, the season AFTER the World Series. The ceremony ends with the NL championship pennant hoisting. The emailer used the scoreboard to verify it was Flag Day -- those teams did play that day. Later, you see the World Series bunting; this section is definitely the 1929 World Series. Still don't know if it is game 1 or 2.
I find it unfortunate that there was no video coverage to speak of in those days. Today we can see every little feature in a game from nine different angles and in slow and stop motion. Not so back then. In game one of the '29 Series, the A's great slugger Jimmie Foxx hit a tremendous blast over the bleachers in left-center. One of the pitchers in the A's bullpen said, "We sat in the bullpen and watched that ball fly for two innings!" Such a pity that things like that have been lost forever.
I believe that's Howard Ehmke pitching at the 5;10 mark. He was a surprise 1st game starter for the series, who was gong to be released before the end of the season but asked Mr Mack if he could just pitch in one world series game indicating that he had one good game left in his arm ..Mack took a gamble and it paid off. It's a great story. Now Connie Macks great grandson is a US Senator
This was answered a few months ago (read comments below). Someone figure out that the first part of the film is Flag Day 1930 (AFTER the World Series), but the later part of the film IS the World Series (note the banners).
"This looks like both Game 1 & 2 judging the 2 distinctive camera angles on the 3rd base side." I thought so too when I transferred it. Also, the shots in the middle look like people in line to get IN, rather than leaving. I think the sun is different as well. Lucky person to have gone to both games! And just ten days later, the stock market would crash ...
A photo I found online of a 1929 World Series ticket shows the price as $5.50, grandstand seat. A hotdog costs more than that now at that park. Not worth it anymore, even when the numbers are adjusted for inflation.
This looks like both Game 1 & 2 judging the 2 distinctive camera angles on the 3rd base side. Both games had 50,000 in attendance. How? Check out the shots at the end of the stands built OVER Waveland and Sheffield!
There's a greater span of time between now and when went to my first Cubs game, then there is between that fist visit and the World Series above. 52 - 41.
jeez that incredible and beautiful. so true and serene. theres nothing more pure than baseball, especially old time baseball. how many more stands were there in Wrigley compared to now?
This looks like the same set-up as they had in 1932 with the temporary stands in the outfield. Love the outfield shot at 3:40, You can get a good idea of where Ruth's "called shot" landed.
Very cool. Didn't know there were consumer film cameras in 29'. In fact, seeing the related videos, I didn't know the Blackhawks were a team in 29' either. lol. These are topically related as it was filmed in the time of another financial clamity. Thx for sharing.
@johnmeyer77 Was it game 1 or 2 ??? Great footage ! I love the guy on the bullhorn introducing the Cubs as they take the field . Well if it is Howard Ehmke pitching that should narrow down what Game it was. great historical ffotage. i believe you said that MLB has it . I hope you were compensated.
On this date in 1916 {Apr. 20th} the Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 11 innings
Why isn't there any audio? I assume you are kidding. When did sound appear in more than a few Hollywood movies? Oh, 1929. Amateur sound film took much, much longer. I could have added a music soundtrack, but just turn on your iPod while you watch.
It's actually easy to affirm the date of this game as October 8th, game one. Notice the Philadelphia pitcher at 5:15 with the underhand delivery (also notice him warming up, and the underhand delivery, at 3:20) . That's Howard Ehmke, who set a World Series record that day with 13 strikeouts. The record wouldn't be broken until Carl Erskine struck out 14 in a game vs. the Yankees in 1953. It was also the last victory of Ehmke's career.
The man with the megaphone is none other that Pat Pieper, legendary PA announcer at Wrigley until 1974.
This is definitly something that the Cub's organization
and Baseball's Hall Of Fame would have interest in.
A reel GEM ! Thanks for posting!
Cub P.A.announcer in a game I went to in '74.
" Get your pencils and scorecards ready...."
R.I.P.
Home of the Chicago Whales
Federal League Champions- led by Joe Tinker
The 1929 & 1930 Philadelphia Athletics had a great team with world series Title, in 1931 the Athletics with 107 win was totally insane. Everybody is talking about the great NY Yankees of 1927 and rightly so but let's not forget that great Philadelphia Athletics team with outstanding players like Lefty Grove, Jim Cronin, Eddie Rommel, All Simmons and their outstanding manager.
Philadelphia kept the wrong team.
Jim Cronin not the same as Joe Cronin
They stymied Ruth- Gehrig for 3 yrs.
Then Mack sold them away
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@@Shindler39Phillies won the World Series in 1980 and 2008
Great video. One thing I noticed toward the end of the film. I looked for a male that wasn't wearing some kind of hat & couldn't find one. Thinks have really changed since then. 1930 was the year that Hack Wilson set the RBI record that still stands today at 191. It was also the year that Bill Terry was the last player in the N.L. to hit for over a .400 average.
You related to Bobby Schantz who pitched for Athletics in fiffties?
@@johnleber3369
Shantz*
And Hack was a booze- fueled METEORITE that burned out way too soon.His pic is still on the clubhouse door at Wrigley as a warning to young ballplayers.
All I can say is WOW! What a tremendous artifact. It's the oldest Cub world series footage I have ever seen and I believe it was the first World Series at Wrigley Feild.
The Cubs earlier 1918 appearance against the Red Sox was played at Cominskey Park because of the increased
seating capacity there. The upper deck at Wrigley was brand new in this film - built around '28 or '29.
I am a hotdog seat vendor at Wrigley and enjoy looking at this footage. It's amazing how the park has changed since this footage was taken. Very interesting.
It looks like there was no brick wall out there and fans lined up just beyond the outfield. Pre Ivy days I guess. Very interesting.
Yes, I noticed the same. Tony, are you still selling hotdogs?
this is stunning! the quality and fluidity of the film.. same place different world, it's incredible. thanks for posting.
This must be Game 1 because Howard Ehmke was a submarine thrower. He struck out a then record 13 batters and won 3-1. Excellent video to find!
It's awe-inspiring feeling to be able to watch something that took place over 78 years ago!
It's now going on 94 years
Ah, I love the way various people have solved the mystery of what we are watching in this film. Thanks!
That's great stuff. It's amazing how the sublties of the game really haven't changed over the last 80 years, other than the pitchers today taking forever to throw the damn ball.
Root & Emke did not dally around
THANK YOU for transferring this footage and sharing it with everyone!
That is the most incredible footage I've ever seen of Wrigley Field and the Cubs. This has to be incorporated into a Cubs documentary somehow. Amazing.
Thanks for posting this. Very interesting, especially the brief street scenes. I grew up in Philadelphia and have seen home video footage of some of the games in Philly from the 1929 Series, as well.
I also can't help but think how the Great Depression was right around the corner for all these people.
It's crazy how similar it still looks to this video 80+ years later
This is incredible to see a first hand account of sitting in the stands along with all the fans via a fan's perspective. The quality of the film is very good as well.
This is amazing... Thanks for a great view of some great baseball history.
I saw the Cubs this year 2016 when they will win the World Series. Almost eerie thinking that wrigley looked the exact same now 100 years later
Casimir not the exact outfield is totally different
The Cubs were good in 1929, they just ran into a team that no one could have beated. That Athletics team was LOADED!
Plus they gave up 10 runs in 8th inning of Game 4( they were up 8-0).
--> The opening footage is Wrigley Field on Opening day 1930.
Actually, it is Flag Day, 1930.
--> around the 5:30 mark, we get brief footage of Chicago during the 1929 Series.
Actually, the WS begins at 3:19 and continues until the end.
excellent video. I don't care what anyone says, I love being a Cub fan and always will be. I've sat in just about every area of Wrigley, and never sat in a bad seat. It's a special field and I have a lot of wonderful memories of every visit. I grew up in Wrigley Ville, met quite a few of the players from the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's and 80's. When the Cubs make it to the big game, I know it'll be special for all the long time fans. So anyway, Thanks and good luck.
Even sitting under the scoreboard was cool.Met Phil Cavaretta in '87 in a row behind home( he was a NY Met scout).I said hello and said" you were N.L.MVP in '45 and played on 3 Cub WS teams here.And went to Lane Tech right down Addison".
He smiled and said " yep".
Nice man- wondered what was going through his mind looking at that field?
I am a ballpark vendor at Wrigley, and a fan of the Cubs. I love anything from this era when they went to the WS pretty much every 3 years ...very unlike today. Great to see how different the park looked back then, with pretty much the same buildings on Waveland & Sheffield. Thanks for uploading this. Wonderful!
William Wrigley was an owner like George Steinbrenner, spend what you NEED.Phil.......forgeta boutit !
Yes, it is Howard Ehmke. There is a book coming out next month about Charlie Root, and they will be using still "snapshots" from this film. One of them will be of Ehmke's delivery that you see as he warms up on the sidelines.
Back when people had dignity and class. When people, for the most part, worked hard, had respect for each other and took responsibility for their actions in life. It was really nice to watch an even where people weren't glued to their devices and not watching the game!
STFU
This is great. Back when the WS was played in early october and in the DAY! No night WS with pitchers blowing on their hands cause it's 40 degrees, even though the daytime high was 64.
First night WS game not played until 1971. Last DAY WS game was in 1981! Did somebody say. . . tv revenue 🤑
Still cold there. The men wore overcoats in this video.
Wow!!! This is unbelievable stuff. Very nice work digging this one up.
I can't wait until we have virtual reality machines that will be able to turn data like this into a fully immersive experience. Make it feel like you were really there minus the smell of the cigar smoke unless they invent smell o vision. What a dream it would be to go back in time to a classic world series game!
Really cool. I love old footage like this!! Thanks for posting! I live in one of those buildings shown ( I think), next to wrigley, really cool to see it like this : )
This is great footage. My guess is that the right handed pitcher with the submarine style of throwing would be the A’s Howard Ehmke.
This is such a fantastic old film! Thank you for sharing it. Obviously taken before Bill Veeck had the ivy walls and famous scoreboard installed. Many of the same familiar buildings beyond the outfield walls now support rooftop bleachers. I remember my dad telling me many times that when the Cubs lost that series, he was so disgusted he became a White Sox fan and made sure I was one, too. When the White Sox lost the 1964 pennant by one game to the dreaded Yankees, I was so disgusted I became a Cubs fan! The city of Chicago has had many great teams, but, as someone wrote on a bed sheet held up years ago at Soldier Field during a Bears' game: "Chicago....more dog teams than the Yukon!"
Well said.!
That '64 Sox team lost 1st 9 games to the Yankees, then won the last 10 !
I love old movies like this.
The first few minutes of marching and hoisting the 1929 pennant were taken on June 21, 1930, during a doubleheader against the Boston Braves, along with some of the game action shots.
This was only 21 yrs since Cubs won their last World Series in 1908. Capone was probably mad cubs were in and not his be-
loved White Sox. Thankx for putting this film up. I always knew the A,s were a top team before they moved to Kansas City and Oakland.
Shit I was cruising thru baseball nastagla and I saw this remember the jokes on me but I thought I saw I was only 21 years old when the Cubs last won the World Series I was like your either Beetlejuice or your In possession of the Holy Grail either way we have to talk
Beat that great Frank Chance juggernaut in the 1910 WS( and won the next WS).Then, like in '12 and '32 and Finley's '75......broke them up.
When I first posted the film, I didn't realize that the film was splice out of sequence. Thus, the first part of the film posted here is actually from Flag Day 1930. This was in June, AFTER their World Series appearance the previous October. They hoist the pennant from the previous year as part of the ceremonies. Then, the film cuts (at about 3:15) back in time to October 8, 1929 and the first game of the World Series.
John Meyer on the first part of the film, why does the scoreboard show Cubs at Boston
@@davidbondehagen1616 I posted this video immediately after I transferred it for a client and did not realize, until after I posted it, that the first couple of minutes are NOT the World Series but are instead from the "Flag Day" game played the following June when the Cubs hoisted the pennant that they won the previous fall. So, the scores on the scoreboard are from other games being played that day. Obviously there would have been no other scores during the World Series game.
So, chronologically, the clip is out of order. Read my description (below the video) for more information about this, along with other information readers discovered after I posted the film, all those years ago.
In this video at 5:30 it says this game was on either Oct. 8th or 9th 1929. I believe it is on the 8th. My reasoning for that is Howard Ehmke started the 1st game for the A's on the 8th. If you notice at about 4:47 & right after that, the pitcher is sidearmed.
Ehmke was a side armed pitcher & he threw the entire game. None of the other starters of the 1st two games were sidearmed pitchers & as far as I can tell.
Maybe someone else might be able to add something to this.
I think you're right -- it almost had to be Ehmke. Did you know Ehmke almost pitched consecutive no hitters in 1923? The only hit in the game after his no hitter was a hot shot that bounced off of third baseman Howie Shanks" chest on the first play of the game. Scorer Fred Lieb called it a hit. Ehmke then proceeded to shutout the Yanks without a hit, walking only one. People tried to pressure Lieb into changing the hit to an error, but he refused. Howie Shanks was traded to the Yankees a couple years later, and he told Lieb that he always felt that he should have made the play. Lieb discusses this in his book Baseball as I Have Known It.
He scouted cubs for 2 weeks and they could not hit his slowwwww stuff
I think he ko'd 15 cubs that day even v.that murderers row
Hornsny at 2nd Hack in cf
That Cubs line- up were a fastball smashing bunch.That's why Mack made Lefty Grove a reliever for the Series.
WFLD-TV in Chicago contacted me (and the owner of the footage) last June and used it as part of featurette that ran after one of the Cubs-Sox inter-league games.
I recently received an email from the 90-year-old daughter of Charlie Root, the game one starting pitcher. I sent her several blow-up frames from the film and she has identified the pitcher as her dad. Now that I have this input, I think the film is game one from October 8. Also, when I first posted the film, I didn't realize that the reel had been spliced out of order. Prior to 3:15, when you see the lefty pitchers, the film is from Flag Day 1930. At 3:15, the 1929 series starts.
Root a great pitcher- played in 3 Cub WS's
As someone who has been to Wrigley hundreds of times, this is great video and one of the oldest I know of. Interesting to see the red line el train passing between the buildings at 2:17 and to see the SRO crowd hanging on the ramps to the upper deck. A lot has changed at Addison and Clark in Chicago but much has remained the same.
I do 16mm film transfers for friends and family. This one person had a whole reel from 1929 of nothing but sports. Definitely one-of-a-kind stuff, possibly with some real historical significance.
I am a White Sox fan, but I have always liked Wrigley Field (And miss old Comiskey Park). This is a cool Video. I bet Capone was in the stands somewhere.
A few months after St.Valentine's Day Massacre,7 blocks down Clark St.
Amazing.
It was taken in 1929. Movies were silent back then. Hollywood added sound to a few films in 1927-28, but home movie film didn't get sound for a long, long time.
HUGE CROWD !
Starting around 3:19 the footage cuts to game one of the 1929 Series on October 8, 1929. Looking from behind home plate, we first see Cubs pitcher Charlie Root pitching to the first batter in the series in the top of the first, Athletics second baseman Max Bishop. The film cuts right as he's about to ground out to first base. Then we cut to the bottom of the first, with Athletics submarine pitcher Howard Ehmke pitching. The batter is likely Norm McMillan, the Cubs third baseman.
The 3B player the only flaw in that monster Cub line-up
GREAT historical footage...Thank you for posting !
"All those people are probably dead." --
Actually, not quite. I was just contacted by the daughter of the starting Cubs pitcher (Charlie Root). She and her mom were sitting just next to where the World Series footage begins (it starts at 3:15 in the above movie). She is now 90, so was about 10 at that time. She has identified her dad from high-res still snapshots I have sent, showing her dad.
Well, they're dead now ☹️
@@paddle_shift you're probably right
@@johnmeyer77 🥲🙏😭
Thanks. You should see the actual transfer (as opposed to the fuzzy TH-cam version). The film was in excellent shape.
Try uploading it again, now that TH-cam has HD quality
And you could put Flag Day at the end this time
@@jonnywishbone17 I long ago restored this video, removing dirt and sharpening. I could re-upload but I can't put the same video on the same URL, so I'd have to start the view count all over again.
@@johnmeyer77 okay, just a thought
Fascinating. Thanks for posting.
Yes, there were consumer film movie cameras way back then. 16mm film was introduced as a consumer format in 1922. The film was very expensive and remained expensive to this very day. As a result, Kodak came up with the idea of slitting the film down the length of the film, thus creating an 8mm format. This happened in 1932. It was over 30 years before the next format, Super8, was introduced. It used smaller sprocket holes, which resulted in a larger image and therefore better quality than 8mm.
Thank you so much for sharing.
@MFPhoto1 Murphy's is at the corrner of Waveland and Shefiled. where the old pin wheel from the old Comiskey park scoreboard is(now painted a Harry's face)
I gave a long explanation in one of the first comments (go back to the beginning of these posts). Short version: it was taken by my high school girlfriend's grandfather and had been sitting in her attic for thirty years. I transferred it for her. WFLD-TV did a short human interest piece about us and the film in June 2007.
Well this was a pretty neat video to see. I am Cards fan first and Cubs fan second(yes it can happen). While new modern stadiums have their spot I do hope that Wrigley is held onto as long as possible. It is a beautiful park with a great atmosphere. I have attended a few games there now and besides for the random Cards bashing(to be expected to some extent) everything at the park was extremely nice.
thank you for posting this. i love the megaphone guy!
That would have been Pat Piper, the Wrigley Field PA announcer for 59 years, starting in 1916 until the year he died, 1974.
MY DAD LIVED A FEW BLOCKS FROM THEIR,HE WENT TO LANE TECT IN 1929 WHEN I WAS A KID 1940S HE WOULD TAKE ME TO GAMES,GOOD OLD DAYS,IN THE 40S THE PARK ALMOST LOOKED THE SAME AS NOW.HIS HERO WAS HACK WILSON ,MINE WAS HANK SOUR...
Fantastic video!
Yes, I think so. As I recall, Shibe Park (latter Connie Mack Stadium) had a fence in right field, not bleachers.
Interesting tidbit. Notice on the scoreboard where Cubs playing Boston (Braves), the Cubs were listed first. Until around 1938, the home team had the choice of batting first or not.
Really? That's fascinating. I wonder why any team would ever choose to bat first?
The rule was adopted in 1950. The home team chose to bat 1st in the old days to have first crack at the new ball.
Thanks!
Really?
Well I’ll be fucked😮. I feel like I should’ve known that!!
tHANK yOU for sharing this!
Wrigley Field looks much the same except no IVY walls and the outfield bleachers were much closer. The scoreboard is lower in center field. Great movie footage.Bravo!
@therealjoebloggs There were field level seats in left and right center. The scoreboard, about 440 feet from home plate, was in straight away center. There seems to be some extra seating in the outfield for the series. A photo I have of Wrigley taken about 7-8 years later shows fewer outfield seats.
The walkways in the back of the infield seats and upper deck look familiar. Most everything else has changed, except for the neighborhood.
One of the best A's teams ever. Still it's amazing the the same Yankee team that was so completely dominate the two prior years just fell apart that year.
The pitching staff got old.
Look at the 1932 Yankees pitching.. Almost all different than 1928.
Think A's were in 3 straight, like '09
The flag day footage looks like it was shot on Friday, June 20, 1930. I see that the schedule on the scoreboard has all the teams that played each other on that date, the crowd looks like about 35,000 (the reported attendance for that day) and the Cubs were out of town on actual flag day (June 14).
I notice if you look carefully at about 3:50 into it, when facing the right field stands after the flag has been hoisted, you can see an El train going by between the houses on Sheffield.
Thanks for not clogging the video with actual game footage.
Thanks for very interesting historical footage. The more things change, the more they stay the same. It's clear to see though, that the game was played differently and you can't really compare stats from then to the modern era...though it is fun.
I strongly believe Ken Burns would done whatever it took to make this footage part of the Baseball series on PBS.
Doubtful. Burns only used footage of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Red Sox, his two favorite teams.
East coast bias.He believed in that hatchet- man Al Stump's book on Ty Cobb and used a lot of that liar's writing on his otherwise fine documentary.
For that time, this is amazing quality video.
Film 📽 Video tape wasn't invented until the early 1960's 🤔
Game must have been at Philadelphia. Looks like Shibe Park.
I've been looking for video of Hack Wilson batting. Can't find any.
Nope, this is most definitely Wrigley Field. You can see some of the buildings in the outfield that are still standing. The ivy and the scoreboard came later.
@@johnmeyer77 After a closer look you are correct. I thought the houses beyond the right field wall looked like Shibe but you are right it's Wrigley. The amazing thing about Wrigley is the iconic ballpark was seldom visited Phil Wrigley. The fact he had such little interest in the team probably is what saved Wrigley Field from suffering the fate of every other park aside from Fenway. Phil Wrigley was too cheap and disinterested to build a new ballpark. Now to paraphrase George Burns Wrigley got so old it became new again.
Hey look, a Sox fan with a totally original thought that we haven't heard 8,000 times before. Thanks for your input.
100% certain, yes, it was Wrigley. You can use Google image search and find pics from this era and see the huge centerfield scoreboard. Also, look at the buildings in right field. Many of them still stand.
You are correct: the first part of the film is from the spring of 1930, on Flag Day, when they hoisted the pennant that they won the previous fall.
However, the World Series footage IS there, and starts at the 3:14 mark.
Yes that sidearm/underhand delivery looked like other footage I saw of ehmke.
submarine
Interesting to see the layout of Wrigley Field compared to today. No ivy covered wall or high scoreboard.
The first part is Flag Day 1930; the second part (taken behind the backstop) is the World Series 1929 (note the bunting in the stands and everyone is dressed VERY warmly).
When Hack hit 56 homers & 191 ribbies
the Mack Attack, greatest comeback in post season history STILL ❤
I received an email that explains several mysteries. This clip is apparently not in chronological order. The first part is Flag Day, 1930, the season AFTER the World Series. The ceremony ends with the NL championship pennant hoisting. The emailer used the scoreboard to verify it was Flag Day -- those teams did play that day. Later, you see the World Series bunting; this section is definitely the 1929 World Series. Still don't know if it is game 1 or 2.
I find it unfortunate that there was no video coverage to speak of in those days. Today we can see every little feature in a game from nine different angles and in slow and stop motion. Not so back then. In game one of the '29 Series, the A's great slugger Jimmie Foxx hit a tremendous blast over the bleachers in left-center. One of the pitchers in the A's bullpen said, "We sat in the bullpen and watched that ball fly for two innings!" Such a pity that things like that have been lost forever.
Houses outside Wrigley Field still there today, for the most part.
I believe that's Howard Ehmke pitching at the 5;10 mark. He was a surprise 1st game starter for the series, who was gong to be released before the end of the season but asked Mr Mack if he could just pitch in one world series game indicating that he had one good game left in his arm ..Mack took a gamble and it paid off. It's a great story. Now Connie Macks great grandson is a US Senator
This was answered a few months ago (read comments below). Someone figure out that the first part of the film is Flag Day 1930 (AFTER the World Series), but the later part of the film IS the World Series (note the banners).
i like shot of the outfield and bleachers, a majority of those building on waveland and sheffield are still standing
Yes, it was on WFLD-TV. They got it from me.
Great video. Wow! Wrigley sure has changed!! Where are the bricks and ivey?
94 years ago yet pretty darn good film quality! the A'S had a tremendous team.loaded with HOFers
"This looks like both Game 1 & 2 judging the 2 distinctive camera angles on the 3rd base side."
I thought so too when I transferred it. Also, the shots in the middle look like people in line to get IN, rather than leaving. I think the sun is different as well.
Lucky person to have gone to both games! And just ten days later, the stock market would crash ...
if you've never been to Wrigley gotta get there
A photo I found online of a 1929 World Series ticket shows the price as $5.50, grandstand seat. A hotdog costs more than that now at that park. Not worth it anymore, even when the numbers are adjusted for inflation.
Love or hate them Cubs, one can't deny that it's a beautiful ballpark.
This looks like both Game 1 & 2 judging the 2 distinctive camera angles on the 3rd base side. Both games had 50,000
in attendance. How? Check out the shots at the end of the stands built OVER Waveland and Sheffield!
I wonder if Al Capone was at this game.
@MFPhoto1 I think the "called shot" hit the roof op of Murphy's legend has it there was a Baby Ruth bill board there at the time.
dang wrigely field didnt change alot and who was around this time to tape this...and one more thang i didnt know there was video cameras back then
It's Chicago. You can see the old Examiner newspaper building in the background.
There's a greater span of time between now and when went to my first Cubs game, then there is between that fist visit and the World Series above. 52 - 41.
jeez that incredible and beautiful. so true and serene. theres nothing more pure than baseball, especially old time baseball. how many more stands were there in Wrigley compared to now?
This looks like the same set-up as they had in 1932 with the temporary stands in the outfield. Love the outfield shot at 3:40, You can get a good idea of where Ruth's "called shot" landed.
Near the flagpole
Very cool. Didn't know there were consumer film cameras in 29'. In fact, seeing the related videos, I didn't know the Blackhawks were a team in 29' either. lol. These are topically related as it was filmed in the time of another financial clamity. Thx for sharing.
Saw a 1929 NHL film of the Black Hawks v.NY Rangers from The Chicago Coliseum.Taken with a Hollywood- style camera.
Amazing.
Seen '29 footage of Black Hawks v.NY Rangers at Chicago Coliseum- pretty neat
@johnmeyer77 Was it game 1 or 2 ??? Great footage ! I love the guy on the bullhorn introducing the Cubs as they take the field . Well if it is Howard Ehmke pitching that should narrow down what Game it was. great historical ffotage. i believe you said that MLB has it . I hope you were compensated.
@glenn cunningham I gotta solute you there sir. Kudos for being a fan since then!
On this date in 1916 {Apr. 20th} the Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 11 innings
Would win the World Series A CENTURY later.
Why isn't there any audio? I assume you are kidding. When did sound appear in more than a few Hollywood movies? Oh, 1929. Amateur sound film took much, much longer. I could have added a music soundtrack, but just turn on your iPod while you watch.
According to a comment left six years ago, "The man with the megaphone is none other that Pat Pieper, legendary PA announcer at Wrigley until 1974."
Yes, Cathy and I agreed to let them air it. How did it look on TV? I live in California and couldn't see the show.