In 1925, one of the largest crowds in Comiskey Park’s history evaded some of the most sophisticated crowd control instruments then known to man.

Highlights

- An overflow crowd and the one rope to wrangle them all

- The seat cushion falls into the wrong hands once again (”the boys from the stockyards”)

- Joe Sewell singlehandedly finishes the baseball game

- Translating 1920s baseball idioms

- Ray Knode’s big moment in history

- The fans on the field party their way into a forfeit

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