Pre-1990 Cardinal games on tape

by iron duke75 on May 29, 2007 4:16 PM EDT

Hey Hardcore, noticed your new tag line. My dad used to record Cardinal playoff games in the 80's on VHS, and he still has alot of them as far as I know. I know he had Games 3, 6, and 7 from the 1982 World Series, and at one time he had Game 3 from the 82 NLCS in Atlanta. He had Games 1,2,4,and 7 from 1985 World series, and he had games from the 87 NLCS against San Francisco and from the 87 World Series also. He would usually tape every game, but he also usually taped over the games the Cards lost. :-) Not sure if you were wanting originals or to maybe make copies of them...I doubt he'd mind too much, since I've never seen him watch any of them. Let me know...

On a sad note, my father's dumbass son accidentally taped over Willie's awesome Game 3 over the rail catch of Gorman Thomas' deep drive to center field... Idiot... :-)

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Heh

"my father's dumbass son"

by sdrone on May 29, 2007 11:48 PM EDT reply actions

would that be you, iron duke?

by stlcardinalsfang on May 29, 2007 11:52 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm afraid so... :-)

Although I do have a brother, he wasn't the culprit...

"That's baseball, and it's my game. Y'know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys." - Humphrey Bogart

by iron duke75 on May 30, 2007 4:44 AM EDT up reply actions

I'd love copies of them

I didn't want to post my email address in a link on in my signature, for fear of some random search engine bot picking it up and spamming me to death.

I can link this thread though, now and hopefully find some games.

As to your story, that's quite a collection. I'd take copies of any of those games sans the 87 World Series (it's on MLB DVD already). I'm just looking for random older games that people may have. MLB has not been doing a very good job of updating their catalogue or making games availible lately (though they have recently aquired copies from a Boston fan of 2 games from the 1967 World Series).

If lboros doesn't mind Cardinals fans tape trading (no profits made, of course) then I'd love to work something out with you.

Interested in pre-1990 Cardinals games on tape

by Hardcore Legend on May 30, 2007 12:30 AM EDT reply actions

Sure...you can drop me an email

My ID is also my Yahoo ID and email. I'm going home to visit next week, and I'll ask the old man about it...

"That's baseball, and it's my game. Y'know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys." - Humphrey Bogart

by iron duke75 on May 30, 2007 4:47 AM EDT up reply actions

What was it

that your father's dumbass son recorded? Hopefully it was something cool, like Voltron.

The 26th Man

by 26thMan on May 30, 2007 11:31 AM EDT reply actions

Voltron

rocks my world

by azruavatar on May 30, 2007 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions

Probably nothing that cool :-)

I had a set of Voltron toys that you could assemble into the big robot....they were awesome.

I did record alot of Transformers cartoons back then...guess that could have been it... :-)

"That's baseball, and it's my game. Y'know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys." - Humphrey Bogart

by iron duke75 on May 30, 2007 4:00 PM EDT up reply actions

I can't wait to see

that new movie. What always pissed me off was I would always lose the guns to my GI JOEs. OKay this thread has taken a turn...not sure if I have any old cardinals games. There, back on track.

Here I Am, Rock You Like a Hurricane

by OKCardsfan on May 30, 2007 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions

I hear ya

I slipped quickly back into my youthful geekdom the first time I saw the Transformers movie trailer... :-)

Losing the guns was bad enough...but what about the missiles off of the planes? ;-)

"That's baseball, and it's my game. Y'know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys." - Humphrey Bogart

by iron duke75 on May 31, 2007 9:19 AM EDT up reply actions

when i first read this i thought is was

pre 1900, i'm an idiot

If there's a baseball heaven, Albert Pujols is God.

by kyle man on May 31, 2007 3:22 PM EDT reply actions

tapes

I wouldn't mind just about any Cardinals games of the past on tape. I don't really think I have anything of interest to offer in return, however.

remember when ESPN Classic would occasionally show old baseball games? that was nice. I swear it's almost always "classic" poker shows and racing these days though. I guess that's what happens when ESPN reduces their (financial) interest in baseball.

on another note... it would be nice to see, unless this already exists of course, some kind of centralized repository for online Cardinals video footage (or interesting images for that matter.) I occasionally see links posted on here, but not all that often. I know there's things on youtube, but I'm not really into people's homemade "tribute videos" so much.

Acquire some runs!

by madding on Jun 6, 2007 6:51 AM EDT reply actions