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ramfandan wrote: ↑28 Oct 2025 01:54 am 18 innings and some of us stayed up for the entire thing ...1:54 A.M CT as I am posting this

Ozziesfan41 wrote: ↑28 Oct 2025 01:56 am

ramfandan wrote: ↑28 Oct 2025 01:54 am 18 innings and some of us stayed up for the entire thing ...1:54 A.M CT as I am posting this

Definitely the longest I’ve ever stayed up watching a game.

ramfandan wrote: ↑28 Oct 2025 02:07 am

Ozziesfan41 wrote: ↑28 Oct 2025 01:56 am

ramfandan wrote: ↑28 Oct 2025 01:54 am 18 innings and some of us stayed up for the entire thing ...1:54 A.M CT as I am posting this

Definitely the longest I’ve ever stayed up watching a game.

Back in the early 1960's as a teen, remember listening to a Cardinals at Pittsburge game on my radio til around 1 a.m or so . Game was played at Forbes Field . I lives in Wis. at that time but KMOX has the clear channel signal to get Cardinal games at night .

Like you Ozzie , that was my lnogest watching on TV. Back in the 70's , some buddies and me went to Country Stadium Milw. and were there for a game that went past 1 a.m .. When game ended, we had two hour drive back home so we stopped at Denny's restaurant ordered breakfast . Got back to our city just after 4 a.m. 3 of us didn't have to go to work that day but one guy worked at the local radio station and he had to 'sign on' at the station at 5 a.m. He just made it and went 'on air' on time ! You can imagine how tired he was doing a 4 hour shift from 5 til 9 a.m.

BrummerStealsHome wrote: ↑29 Oct 2025 15:12 pm

ramfandan wrote: ↑28 Oct 2025 02:07 am

Ozziesfan41 wrote: ↑28 Oct 2025 01:56 am

ramfandan wrote: ↑28 Oct 2025 01:54 am 18 innings and some of us stayed up for the entire thing ...1:54 A.M CT as I am posting this

Definitely the longest I’ve ever stayed up watching a game.

Back in the early 1960's as a teen, remember listening to a Cardinals at Pittsburge game on my radio til around 1 a.m or so . Game was played at Forbes Field . I lives in Wis. at that time but KMOX has the clear channel signal to get Cardinal games at night .

Like you Ozzie , that was my lnogest watching on TV. Back in the 70's , some buddies and me went to Country Stadium Milw. and were there for a game that went past 1 a.m .. When game ended, we had two hour drive back home so we stopped at Denny's restaurant ordered breakfast . Got back to our city just after 4 a.m. 3 of us didn't have to go to work that day but one guy worked at the local radio station and he had to 'sign on' at the station at 5 a.m. He just made it and went 'on air' on time ! You can imagine how tired he was doing a 4 hour shift from 5 til 9 a.m.

You just made me think of a game from the dramatic final week of the 1964 season where the Cards won their game at home, but KMOX kept Haray Carey on the air from Busch Stadium (1) while tapping into the audio of the Pirates game in Cincinnati, as that game went deep into extra innings, eventually going 16 and stretching past midnight Central Time. the Pirates won, putting the Cards into first place fof the first time all season with three games to play.

MIDMOBIRDTWO wrote: ↑29 Oct 2025 15:22 pm Seem to remember a Cardinal game on KMOX that went 20 some innings. I remember Claude Osteen pitched ten innings and got the win, early seventies. I seem to remember 3 AM on that one.

An Old Friend wrote: ↑29 Oct 2025 15:35 pm

MIDMOBIRDTWO wrote: ↑29 Oct 2025 15:22 pm Seem to remember a Cardinal game on KMOX that went 20 some innings. I remember Claude Osteen pitched ten innings and got the win, early seventies. I seem to remember 3 AM on that one.

September 11th, 1974

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxe ... 9110.shtml

Long career, pitched 8 games total with Cardinals and this one where he threw innings 14-23, went 9.1 innings (didn’t get the win, though)

Still, pretty incredible memory of a player whom otherwise would be entirely forgettable for Cardinals fans. I’d never heard of him.