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Cool old baseball footage on YouTube. 1929 World Series

timc67timc67 Posts: 204
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I thought you guys would like to see this vintage baseball footage from the 1929 world series, if you haven't seen it already. Pretty cool to see Wrigley Field back then.

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  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭
    cool footage

    it led me to find an earl weaver clip which was fantastic!!! i wish we had him back!!!! especially now that perllozzo is gone.
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  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,045 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Grote15 was at that game.
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Grote15 was at that game.

    I'm the guy in the stands with the derby hat on screaming Philly sucks. image

    Great footage!


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  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    That was awesome.

    Thanks for sharing image
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  • MichiganMichigan Posts: 4,942 ✭
    Very interesting footage. It looks like going to a game back then was a dress up affair with the guys all wearing hats and sport coats.

    This apparently pre-dated the famous Wrigley Field ivy, some of those buildings in the background look familiar today.

    Did anyone notice the cheerleader with a big bull horn? Neat.
  • timc67timc67 Posts: 204
    I know. Another thing that I noticed was everybody smoked!! You could see puffs of cigarette smoke all through the footage. Who knows??!! Maybe Al Capone was at that game too..LOL!
  • jamesgotpoormanjamesgotpoorman Posts: 1,682


    << <i>I know. Another thing that I noticed was everybody smoked!! You could see puffs of cigarette smoke all through the footage. Who knows??!! Maybe Al Capone was at that game too..LOL! >>

    Also, it is neat to see most of the men wearing hats!
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  • MichiganMichigan Posts: 4,942 ✭
    The pre-game ceremonies were interesting to watch with the team carrying the flag to the flag pole and marching back with the band
    playing. The old cars on the street were neat too.
  • PSASAPPSASAP Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭
    It was cool to see the PA announcer was a guy with a megaphone standing on the field. Also notice the fans walking across the field after the game. File that under "Things that will never happen again".
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    That is really cool.

    I can't help but think there's still some old guy in his 90s somewhere who could look at that footage and tell you who the pitcher was just by looking at the windup, because he used to watch him pitch. That's pretty cool, too.

    << <i>This apparently pre-dated the famous Wrigley Field ivy >>

    The ivy was planted in 1937. By Bill Veeck, no less.
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