I remember the ‘89 incident. I just started working for Sony & I had purchased an audio rack system from an employee sale. I was assembling it with the TV on and I was watching the game when it hit. I dropped everything I was doing & was watching the incident in real time.
It's amazing what the brain remembers with clarity when something entirely unusual or unexpected happens. If you're anything like me, I bet you can't remember most of what you did last week, but you remember that audio rack and where you got it because of a baseball earthquake.
The only California earthquake around baseball that I knew of was the one in a 1989 World Series game. I enjoyed that archival footage. I also loved the names like Beans and Kiki! Ha!
It's amazing that Candlestick Park took that earthquake with hardly any damage. I'd like to cover that one too, one day, but I need to find an interesting angle first, since the story is so well-known. I was glad to find a more obscure earthquake to cover first.
Don't forget, Kiki is apparently pronounced "Kai-Kai"!
Great story, Paul. Playing with a medicine ball on Catalina Island was definitely a winning solution for the Cubs - in 1933 it had been a scant 25 years since they won a World Series.
Terrific story and writing! Had never heard this story before.
Glad you enjoyed and thanks for the feedback. 1933 really doesn't get a lot of play these days but there was a LOT going on back then, too.
Great work Paul!
I knew of literally none of this fifteen minutes ago. Brilliant work! Thank you!
A week ago I was in the same boat!
I remember the ‘89 incident. I just started working for Sony & I had purchased an audio rack system from an employee sale. I was assembling it with the TV on and I was watching the game when it hit. I dropped everything I was doing & was watching the incident in real time.
That was horrible.
Thank you Paul.
It's amazing what the brain remembers with clarity when something entirely unusual or unexpected happens. If you're anything like me, I bet you can't remember most of what you did last week, but you remember that audio rack and where you got it because of a baseball earthquake.
The only California earthquake around baseball that I knew of was the one in a 1989 World Series game. I enjoyed that archival footage. I also loved the names like Beans and Kiki! Ha!
It's amazing that Candlestick Park took that earthquake with hardly any damage. I'd like to cover that one too, one day, but I need to find an interesting angle first, since the story is so well-known. I was glad to find a more obscure earthquake to cover first.
Don't forget, Kiki is apparently pronounced "Kai-Kai"!
Great story, Paul. Playing with a medicine ball on Catalina Island was definitely a winning solution for the Cubs - in 1933 it had been a scant 25 years since they won a World Series.