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.
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 .
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!
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.
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.
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 RU-vid and be able to just relive and reminisce about those great times? Just awesome to hear Harry yell "Everybody's Goin' Bananas!"
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.
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!!!!
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sc71MWAzttY.html
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?
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.
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...
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!
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?
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
Old Harry was the biggest homer in the history of sports announcing. He treated the Cardinals, Cubs and White Sox like they were the only teams that ever played the game. He was definitely a lot of fun to listen to.
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???????
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.
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.
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.
This era is not awful. It is only awful if you make it seem like it is. The Cubs won a World Series for crying out loud, and you need to be all butt hurt about our generation. This is really sad, and I hope you wake up soon, and realize how great baseball still is. What an awesome team in 2018!
No electronic scoreboard telling the crowd to make noise just pure adrenaline and entertainment that's all you need in baseball today and you don't need electronics
