memories of the 1984 World Series

[sross1800]

Hi there! My name's Sean! I'm 21 years old, and I've got autism. Even though I wasn't born until 1991, and even though I'm a Cardinals fan, but since I like the nostalgia of the 1980's, and since they made it to the World Series this year playing against the Giants, what memories do you have from the 1984 World Series when the Tigers won against the Padres, with manager Sparky Anderson, and players like Jack Morris, Kirk Gibson, Alan Trammell, Willie Hernandez, Larry Herndon, Marty Castillo, Milt Wilcox, and Rusty Kuntz?

Thanks!
Sean

 

[TheVictors]

Hi Sean.

One thing I will never forget about 1984 was when the Cubs 1B Leon Durham pulled a "Bill Buckner" two yrs before Bill did and in the NL playoffs when it seemed the Cubs and Tigers were destined to meet in the WS.

That and Dick Williams now infamous chat with Goose Gossage on the mound with Gibson coming to bat.

I'm glad it's SF instead of STL for 2012.

 

[Mitchrapp]

My best memory is when Gibson faced Goose (the manager came out to talk), and you could hear Sparky in the dugout "He don't want to walk you!..". It was awesome, and Gibby was just cool as shit. Then bam, home run.

 

[Thumb]

Anyone else remember Larry Herndon making the final out catch, and fans pouring onto the field before he could get to the infield?

 

[tomdalton22]

I was at game 5. We were sitting in the upper deck in RF. I remember Gibby hitting those 2 HR what seemed to be right at us. I also remember walking back to our car ane even though it was mostly people just celebrating it was kind of scary. Mobs of people....a car turned over.....people were acting crazy. I did see some chick on some guys shoulders flashing people!

 

[byco42]

I was downtown working as a videographer for CNN covering the UAW settlement, which was conveniently reached the afternoon of Game 5. I was on Jefferson after the game and I asked the reporter (a madman who will go unnamed) if he wanted me to get footage of the mayhem that was all around us. He was frantic to get back to the studio to edit his package and bitched me out for asking. I was young and abided by his stupidity.

As for the events of the series, the Gibson-Whitaker relay in Game 1 that cut down Kurt F'ing Bevacqua at third.

 

[tomdalton22]

I was downtown working as a videographer for CNN covering the UAW settlement, which was conveniently reached the afternoon of Game 5. I was on Jefferson after the game and I asked the reporter (a madman who will go unnamed) if he wanted me to get footage of the mayhem that was all around us. He was frantic to get back to the studio to edit his package and bitched me out for asking. I was young and abided by his stupidity.

As for the events of the series, the Gibson-Whitaker relay in Game 1 that cut down Kurt F'ing Bevacqua at third.

He should have listened to you....you guys would have had some great footage!

 

[Mitchrapp]

Anyone else remember Larry Herndon making the final out catch, and fans pouring onto the field before he could get to the infield?

Yep.

"That fly ball came to me very slowly," Larry would say.

"I had a lot of time to think as it was coming down. I thought I'd been waiting for this moment a lot of years. I said to myself, 'Make sure you squeeze it.'"

He gave the ball to Willie Hernandez. "I did that after all his saves." - Larry would say.

 

[byco42]

He should have listened to you....you guys would have had some great footage!

He was an idiot. The asshole put out his cigarette in my Coke as I was editing and he didn't tell me. I took a slag and said MY FUCKING COKE CAN IS NOT A FUCKING ASHTRAY YOU ASSHOLE!

He actually was somewhat contrite, but I never worked with him after that. I remember several Tigers came into the studio for sit-downs, which took some of the sting of having to listen to the game in the car with this guy.

 

[tycobb420]

Aurelio Lopez drilling the umpire during a pitchout

 

[tinselwolverine]

I was working in a song and dance octet out at Wiard's Orchard the Sunday of Game 5; I had graduated from Michigan that spring and thus ended my tenure with the Michigan Mens Glee Club.

The Club had been selected to sing the National Anthem for Game 5, and the new club members hadn't had their Glee Club windbreakers (which the club was to be performing in) delivered; so the club president at the time (whose brother and the brother's wife was in the octet with me) had been scrambling to find former club members still around Ann Arbor to borrow their windbreaker for the performance, and I lended them mine.

Someone had brought a black and white TV, and we all watched the Glee Club perform the national anthem in our breakroom between our shows; so, while I wasn't at Game 5 with the club myself, I'm proud to say my windbreaker was, and I was able to watch it perform on international television in front of millions and millions.