NBC Sports: MLB 1984- Detroit Tigers @ Chicago White Sox: Jack Morris No-Hitter

Source:NBC Sports– Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson.

Source:The New Democrat 

“1984 04 07 NBC GOW Tigers at White Sox Morris no hitter”

From Classic MLB

Floyd Bannister and the Chicago White Sox taking on the Detroit Tigers in April, 1984 in Chicago. During the early and mid 1980s, Bannister was one of the better pitchers in Major League Baseball, at least in the American League and then he wore out and became a mediocre pitcher.

Source:NBC Sports– The Detroit Tigers vs the Chicago White Sox, from 1984.

Here’s one example of why Jack Morris should be in the MLB Hall of Fame, because when he was on, he could be very dominant, because he threw hard and then throw in his devastating forkball and he could fool you. One of the last pitchers especially of his era that you wanted to fall behind, because of his forkball and he wouldn’t need to throw strikes to get you out.

The 1984 Detroit Tigers are about as a complete and great baseball team that MLB has had, at least since 1969 when divisional play started. They were very good defensively, had a very good, deep and all around lineup offensively. And had very good pitching, both starting and in the bullpen. And Jack Morris was a big part of that and should get more credit for it.

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Chicago White Sox TV: MLB 1980-10-05-80-Anaheim Angels @ Chicago White Sox: Full Game

Source:WGN Sports covering the Chicago White Sox.

“1980 MLB California Angels vs Chicago White Sox”

From Mercerr 22

Source:Baseball Classics

Not a good way to end a Major League Baseball season other than to see a game at the great Comiskey Park, than to have the 65-95 Anaheim Angels vs the 70-90 Chicago White Sox. Which is what the records of these two clubs would be after this game no matter who won or loss.

The White Sox of the 1970s were like their brothers from the National League the Chicago Cubs in the 1970s. You knew basically when the season would start that they would probably have a losing record. The question would be whether they would finish in last place or not.

The Angels were very different especially in the late 1970s after requiring star players like pitchers Nolan Ryan, Frank Tannana, hitters like Don Baylor, Brian Downing and several others, Rod Carew would be another one. They won the AL West in 1979 and at least going in the 1980 season were probably thinking they would at least contend for the AL West if not win the American League all together. Interesting that they would go from being a first place team in the AL West, to sixth place team in just one season.

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NBC Sports: MLB 1985- NBC GOW- Detroit Tigers @ Chicago White Sox: Full Game

Source:NBC Sports– Detroit Tigers OF Kirk Gibson, perhaps the most talented, all around MLB player in the 1980s. And that’s not a Sparky Anderson promo. It’s simply the truth.

“1985 05 11 NBC GOW Tigers at White Sox”

From Classic MLB

A very good matchup here with both the Tigers and White Sox being in contention for their division titles going into September that season. And with Bob Costas and Tony Kubek calling this game for NBC Sports, you can’t ask for more when it comes to broadcast network sports.

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Chicago White Sox TV: MLB 1981- Baltimore Orioles @ Chicago White Sox: Full Game

Source:Classic MLB– I think that’s Chicago White Sox catcher Carlton Fix at the plate.

“Wild game; poor video quality but worth a look anyway IMHO. A lot of runs scored here.”

From Classic MLB

1981 Carlton Fisk’s first season in Chicago.

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Mitch: Chicago 1968: The Democratic Convention

Source:Mitch– I guess this couple was at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Hopefully they survived the experience.

Source:FreeState MD

“As delegates arrived in Chicago the last week of August 1968 for the 35th Democratic National Convention, they found that Mayor Richard J. Daley, second only to President Lyndon B. Johnson in political influence, had lined the avenues leading to the convention center with posters of trilling birds and blooming flowers. Along with these pleasing pictures, he had ordered new redwood fences installed to screen the squalid lots of the aromatic stockyards adjoining the convention site. At the International Amphitheatre, conventioneers found that the main doors, modeled after a White House portico, had been bulletproofed. The hall itself was surrounded by a steel fence topped with barbed wire. Inside the fence, clusters of armed and helmeted police mingled with security guards and dark-suited agents of the Secret Service. At the apex of the stone gates through which all had to enter was a huge sign bearing the unintentionally ironic words, “HELLO DEMOCRATS! WELCOME TO CHICAGO.”

Source:The Chicago Blog– welcome to Chicago, Illinois.

From Smithsonian Magazine

1968 is when the Democratic Party changed and no longer became a Northeastern progressive party with a Southern coalition, made up of people who basically make up the Religious-Right and Neo-Confederate wing of the Republican Party today. By 1968, the Democratic Party was moving away from the South and becoming the party of the Northeast, Midwest and West Coast, as well as the Mid Atlantic.

With the emergence of what I call the Green Party wing of the Democratic Party, that is represented by the so-called Progressive Caucus in Congress that you see today in the Green Party, but also in Occupy Wall Street, the Democratic Party now had a major, left-wing in it. And this is how the Democratic Party lost the White House in 1968 because Classical Liberals on their Right and Progressives on the Center-Left in the party were now divided between the New-Left in the party made up of Socialists-Anarchists, as well as Communists. The group called Students For a Democratic Society then was what Occupy Wall Street is of today.

The Democratic Party lost in 1968 because they were divided by their two wings on the Left: The FDR/LBJ Progressive coalition, with this new coalition that’s called the New-Left, people who are against war (at all costs) but are in favor of using violence to get their message across. Who are against American capitalism and corporate America, but in favor of the New Deal and Great Society, but would expand into what’s known in Europe as the welfare state. What the Green Party today calls the Green New Deal.

The Green Deal would be a whole host of new Federal Government social programs to finish off of what the New Deal and Great Society didn’t accomplish.

The New-Left then made up of Students For a Democratic Society and Occupy Wall Street today, are not Pacifists in the sense that they are against violence and would never use violence. They just don’t want violence coming from their government, but are more than willing to use it against government or people in society. That represent what they do not like about America, like private corporations.

1968 is basically when the Democratic Party basically became three political parties: New Democrat Liberals, the center-right, (where I am) the FDR Progressives or what’s left of them, and Occupy Wall Street today or the Green Party. That sees the Democratic Party and the Republican Party as the same party, but with different names.

And even as split as the Democratic Party was back then, they still came within a state or two of winning the 1968 presidential election. But they would’ve done much better without the split happening all in one party.

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Vice President Hubert Humphrey: 1968 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Speech

Source: EFan– Vice President Humbert H. Humphrey (Democrat, Minnesota) accepting the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination, in Chicago, Illinois.  

Source:FreeState MD

“Here is Vice President Humphrey’s acceptance speech from that turbulent and wild convention in August 1968.

He was very much the establishment candidate in ’68, and was the favorite through the race after President Johnson quit. He might not have been the most popular choice in ’68 but he did come close to winning, which might have been the closest anyone could have come that year, but it depends on which history expert you ask. Humphrey does seem like a nice guy however.”

From EFAN 2011

Hubert Humphrey, didn’t lose the 1968 presidential election because he was a bad candidate or ran a bad campaign or wasn’t qualified to be President of the United States. The opposites are true and even though as it turns out 1968 was his best shot at being elected President of the United States, something he had been thinking about at least since 1957 after Dwight Eisenhower was reelected President in a landslide. Vice President Humphrey was caught in a perfect political storm for both the Democratic Party because of how much damaged it did to the party that lasted at least until 1976 and came back again in 1980 the same political divisions that reemerged again in the late 1970s.

But it was also a perfect political storm for the Republican Party because it not only brought them back to power with Richard Nixon, but made them a real competitive conservative national party again. Where the Republican Party represented the center-right in the country. And the Democratic Party now representing the center-left in the country.

1964 and 1968, even though only one of those elections resulted in short-term success and if you count 1966 and that would be two elections for the Republican Party which they won made them a conservative, national, competitive, party, that would fight communism and other authoritarianism. That would promote economic freedom and business and be a fiscally conservative party. These were the positive aspects of the GOP merging with the South.

What these elections did to the Democratic Party, was create chaos for them. Because it meant they could no longer count on the South for votes and to win elections with them. Plus, they had this emerging young more social-democratic, anti-military New-Left, coming into the party. That pushed the Democratic Party to the Far-Left on many national issues through the 1970s and even into the 1980s. Which they didn’t recover from until 1992 when the Democrats nominated Bill Clinton for president and of course he wins that election and Democrats keep control of Congress as well. But what 1968 along with 66 and even 64 did, was realign both the Republican Party and Democratic Party.

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