sits at work to help out when the AC gets too much to handle.

How cold was it that day? Looks like everyone in the stands was wearing jeans. BLUE jeans. Musta been chilly.

This was the third-to-last game of a dismal season. In those days, sellouts were rare — attendance was 9,805. Temperature was reported on that box score as 73, but I remember it as being cooler.

Anyway, Reagan was in town to address some convention, and decided AFTER he got to Chicago that he wanted to go to the game. They hastily put up metal detectors and Secret Service people appeared on the roof – AFTER the gates had already opened.

He did a couple of innings in the TV booth with Harry. Afterwards his limo went down Sheffield, right behind where I used to sit at the back of the RF bleachers. You could see him waving from the car window — he looked like one of those cardboard cutouts of himself.

His appearance in the booth is immortalized on the Harry Caray Voices of the Game CD. Love me some Gipper!

My favorite story about his broadcasting career at WHO , where he called games by describing the game info as it came in on the news wire:

“When the [telegraph] slip came through, it said, ‘The wire’s gone dead.’ Well, I had the ball on the way to the plate,” Reagan recalled to a group of baseball players at a Hall of Fame lunch at the White House in 1981. “So I had Billy [Jurges] foul one off…. And I had him foul one back at third base and described the fight between the two kids who were trying to get to the ball. Then I had him foul one that just missed being a home run.” Finally, with Reagan sweating and listeners wondering about this odd succession of foul balls, the ticker started to click again.

“And the slip came through the window, and I could hardly talk for laughing,” Reagan recalled. "It said, ‘Jurges popped out on the first pitch.’ "

What a dynamic combo! Maybe we should try this at second base!

all of the stories by Reagan of his various stints where something happened while he was broadcasting and just started making up the game…apparently did it often with Hawkeye football for 1040 WHO

… but happened to be watching the game on WGN when this happened. I remember thinking how cool it was that the President of the United States was talking to Harry Carey. It is a really cool memory. Thanks for bringing this forward.