[pieceofthepuzzle]

Don't live in Chicago, but saw a lot of White Sox games in my life. Used to go to McCuddy’s before going to the old Comiskey. Will always be a White Sox fan first and foremost. Saw a lot of exciting games as a kid back in the Bill Veck era, when they had huge offensive firepower but would lose games 14 to 12.

I know exactly what you mean about the South Side. To me, the spirit that is Chicago burns bright in the neighborhoods, not in the Gold Coast. Wrigley for awhile became a fashionable place to go, even if you didn't care squat about baseball. It was a better place when Ernie said “Let's play two”. It got tiresome to hear some North Siders look down their nose at White Sox fans and the South Side.

[Stosh]

I can remember going to games back in the ‘50’s when one could pick up the pungeant aroma of the stockyards when the wind was blowing the wrong way.

Also worked a couple of games as an Andy Frain usher back then, both at Comiskey (or “Kaminsky”, to quote our Dear Leader) and at Wrigley. I still recall one game in the ‘60’s, when Dave Nicholson (who was pretty much useless most of the time) cleared the upper deck with an incredible homer.