What an absolute jewel Old Comiskey was.

Comiskey Park was the greatest baseball stadium EVER. All you'd ever hear of was Fenway and Wrigley Field, but Comiskey was the best park I've ever been to to watch a baseball game. I've been to Fenway & Wrigley. Both crowded and uncomfortable and over-hyped. I also went to many games at the old Yankee Stadium, pre-1973 reconstruction, and it was also great, but Comiskey was better. And I've been to the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium, Shea Stadium, both the Baltimore Stadiums (Memorial & Camden Yards), Three Rivers in Pittsburgh, County Stadium in Milwaukee and Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. Shea was always a dump, and even good seats were too far from the field. Cleveland Municipal certainly wasn't crowded, but it was pretty dirty, though that didn't bother me. Three Rivers, the day I was there, was hot as hell. I think it was about 110 degrees out, and you got NO shade, so that wasn't fun. Milwaukee was a nice park, but too much of a frat boy atmosphere. I don't know if Milwaukee is a college town, but it seemed to be that day, and the frat boys couldn't hold their beer. We went to an afternoon game in Milwaukee and a night game at Comiskey on the same day, which was cool.

We drove all the way across the country (from NY) specifically to go to Comiskey Park in 1987 to see it before it closed. Went to three games vs. Oakland. Sat in three different places in the park, and every seat was great. The White Sox won all three games. The third game, they were losing, but tied it in the bottom of the ninth, then won it in the bottom of the tenth on a "walk off" home run by Greg Walker. Our seats were right by the scoreboard, and when that thing went off in person, man it was LOUD! TV didn't do it justice. Also, they gave you coupons when you entered the stadium for free tacos at Taco Bell if the White Sox won. Since they won all three games, we had Taco Bell for dinner each night, LOL. It was great.

Love this ballpark. Growing up in Northwest Indiana, I went to many games there with my Dad. Ahhh a lifetime of memories there.

jean shepherd was the best. God rest his soul.. his sense of humor, tongue-in-cheek was terrific and i loved comiskey park and go sox...

So under rated.  Comiskey was a true baseball palace none of these retro come close

Shep bared his soul on this one.

Born and raised in Bridgeport proud of my white Sox I’m glad I found this.

I remember seeing this on tv in 1985. Thank you a million times for preserving and posting it.

Jean rattling off the exact location of his father's favorite seat in old Comiskey brought a tear to my eye. I am a reformed Yankee fan (I grew up with the Yankees but grew to despise the organization for much the same reasons he describes here), and I can still tell you my dad's favorite seat in the old Yankee Stadium even though it's been gone for nearly 15 years and my dad has been gone for nearly 18: Box 323A, seat 1. On the aisle, front row in right field fair territory. It roughly corresponded to my grandfather's favorite seat in the pre-renovation years. That original front row was eliminated along with a few others when they made right field larger during the remodeling in 1974-75 (from Babe Ruth's 296-foot home run porch to a spacious 314), so my dad adopted the new front row. I sat with him there only maybe ten times as a kid, but even if we were sitting somewhere else, he always took me to right field first to pay our respects.

I sat there one last time during the final week in the old stadium, then impulsively went to the final game, too. I couldn't get my dad's favorite seat in the front row for that game, so I sat in the very last row of the upper deck directly above it instead. And that was it. I gave the new stadium a try once, even though my interest in the Yankees had waned after my dad passed away, replaced instead with an unquantifiable attachment to the stadium where we had watched many games together, but I felt nothing. It was cold, sterile, a shopping mall where baseball sometimes happened. And I never looked back. But I did eventually manage to track down the little sign from the railing in right field that marked Box 323, and it hangs on the wall in my basement.

Has to be in top 5 all time greatest stories ever .

Who could ever give Shepherd a thumbs down? Very strange.

The worlds greatest narrator, this guy could make any story interesting I'd listen to him tell a story of paint drying

I had a coworker who grew up on the south side of Chicago. Tony told me his mom was a big Cubs fan and remembers listening/watching many Cub game. Their favorite players were Banks and Kessinger.

Loved this old park...a classic.

When I first saw this, I shed  a tear out of happiness. This is so damn good! It’s  a Chicago thing I guess. The Sox and  Cubs had a lot of losing seasons ... until recently!

You can start listening to Jean Shepherd tell a story figuring you’ll stay only for a bit and you end up staying to the end and wishing you could listen to him forever!

I love my White Sox!

Thank you, sir for telling your White Sox story.

Simultaneously hilarious and poignant!  So lovely, Jeannie.  💔 ⚾️ 🏟️  
And so touching to read about all these shared and beloved memories.

This particular episode of Jean Shepherd's America was one of my favorite memories of the 1960s.  I never thought I would see it again.  Thanks for sharing.   Comisky Park. I never went there, but loved watching games on TV.