Home Run Derby

We’ve already unveiled our Andre Dawson Awards this week … so let’s go back twenty years to Andre Dawson’s MVP season in 1987 - specifically August 1, 1987.

The Chicago Cubs were 5.5 games back of the Cardinals.  The Philadelphia Phillies were at Wrigley Field.

And Andre Dawson smoked the Phillies for Home Runs #29, #30 and #31.

The following video clip is great to see Dawson in his prime and to hear Harry Caray and Steve Stone call the action.

There’s so much cool throwback stuff in that clip.

• No pitch count graphics on the screen during the play-by-play
• Harry Caray not stumbling over every other word
• Dewayne Staats’ call of the 2nd Home Run - Harry Caray did the radio broadcast during the middle innings
• The Phillies’ powder blue road unis
• The huge glasses on Phillies pitcher Tom Hume (#41)
• The huge sunglasses on the redhead (Jody Davis?)  in the dugout after the 1st HR
• Rafael Palmeiro congratulating Dawson in the Cubs’ dugout
• No lights at Wrigley Field
• The Cubs’ pullover jerseys
• The red striped tube socks on a kid on Waveland Avenue

Let me know what else you guys see in the comments.

While we’re doing Andre Dawson week here at HRD, here’s a quick Andre Dawson commercial from 1988.

I wish it was the Tru-Link fence commercial.  If anyone has that commercial, drop me an email.

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