25 years: The Loma Prieta Earthquake and the 89 World Series!

begsu1013

been my "edited tag line" for a while now, but today marks 25 years! was actually at the game and was one of the scariest, coolest, strangest, things I have ever witnessed. and by "coolest" I dont certainly mean at the time, but looking back it's pretty neat to say I was there for that part a baseball history!



1989 world series

Estil

Try this link...skip to about 4:15 if you want to cut to the chase

And just to put this into proper perspective...when the quake happened, those who were at Candlestick (it was pregame/warmup time remember) didn't see hardly any damage at all to the stadium, so perhaps at first they figured it was "just a four pointer" or something. Little did they realize what the quake was REALLY like outside. And of course things like touch screen phones/texting/camera phones was still YEARS away.

begsu1013

didn't really think anything to it until it took us 4 hours to get home and to an actual tv/news report!

begsu1013

double post.

wrestlingcardking

My grandpa was at the game and gave me the ticket of the "non" game. I have it somewhere in my collection of stuff.

gemint

I remember it well. I was still in college at the time and felt the initial pressure change before the ground started shaking. I was standing on a large concrete sidewalk but it felt like standing on waves of water.