Comiskey Park is a baseball park in Chicago, Illinois, located in the Armor Square community on the southwest side of town. The stadium serves as the home of the Chicago White Sox of the American League from 1910 to 1990. Built by White Sox owner Charles Comiskey and designed by Zachary Taylor Davis, Comiskey Park hosts four World Series and more than six thousand Major League Baseball games. Also, in one of the most famous boxing matches in history, the pitch is where the 1937 heavyweight title game where Joe Louis was defeated then champion James J. Braddock in eight rounds which launched the 11-plus Louis an unprecedented year running as heavyweight champion world.
The Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League is also called Comiskey Park when they are not playing at Normal Park or Soldier Field. They won the 1947 NFL Championship Game over the Philadelphia Eagles at Comiskey Park. Much more popular than the Bears, the Cardinals last season in Comiskey was 1958, and they set out for St. Louis in March 1960. The Chicago American Giants of the Negro American League called Comiskey Park came home from 1941-1950.
Adjacent to the south (on 35th Street), a new baseball stadium was opened in 1991, and Comiskey Park was destroyed in the same year. Originally called Comiskey Park, the name was changed to US Cellular Field in 2003 and Guaranteed Rate Field in 2016.
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Initial years
The park was built on the former town dam that Comiskey bought in 1909 to replace the wooden South Side Park. Initially White Sox Park, within three years was renamed as founder of White Sox and owner of Charles Comiskey. The original name was restored in 1962, then converted back to Comiskey Park in 1976.
Comiskey Park is very modern in its time. This is the third concrete-and-steel stadium in the major leagues to be built since 1909. As originally built, it sits nearly 32,000, a record at the time. In short, it retains the nickname "The World's Baseball Palace."
The design of the garden is strongly influenced by Sox Ed Walsh pitchers, and is known for its pitcher-friendly proportions (362 feet (110 m) to the poles, 420 feet (128 m) into the central field). Changes were then made, but the park remained more or less favorable for the defensive teams. Over the years, this is reflected in the style of playing White Sox: solid defense, and short, fast hits. The park was unusual because no player ever reached 100 home runs there: Carlton Fisk broke the record with 94.
The first match at Comiskey Park was a 2-0 defeat of St. Louis Browns on July 1, 1910. The first rider at Comischey Park in 1935, was pelted by Vern Kennedy on 31 August, a 5-0 win over Cleveland. The Sox won their first night match at home, above St. Louis on August 14, 1939, 5-2.
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World Series
Comiskey Park is the site of the four World Series. In 1917, the Chicago White Sox won 1, 2 and 5 games at Comiskey Park and went on to beat the New York Giants four games into two. In 1918 Comiskey Park hosted the World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox. The Cubs borrow Comiskey Park for the series due to its larger seating capacity. The Red Sox beat the Cubs four games into two. Game one, two and three played at Comiskey Park. The Red Sox won one and three games. Attendance was below capacity in the year of the war. The best crowd is game 3, with around 27,000 subscribers.
In 1919, the White Sox lost the famous Black Sox World Series for the Cincinnati Reds, five games to three in nine game series. Three, four, five and eight games are played at Comiskey Park. The White Sox won three games and lost four, five and eight games.
In 1959, the White Sox lost four games to two for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Game one, two and six are played at Comiskey Park. The White Sox won one game and lost two and six games. With their victory at Game 6 at Comiskey Park, the Los Angeles Dodgers became the first West Coast team to win the World Series.
Comiskey saw his last post-season action in 1983, when the White Sox lost the American League Championship Series to the Baltimore Orioles, 3 games to 1, with games 3 and 4 in Chicago. Baltimore continues to win the World Series.
All-Star Games
Comiskey Park is the site of the three Major League Baseball All-Star Games, and each marked a turn toward domination by one league or the other:
- The first All-Star game was held in 1933. It began as a promotion by Arch Ward, sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, in conjunction with the 1933 Century Progress Exposition held on the lake of Chicago. The Americans defeated citizens, partly helped by a house run by Babe Ruth, who was nearing the end of her career, but could still swing a strong bat. The game also inaugurated the stretch when America dominated, winning 12 of the first 16 (skipping 1945 due to wartime travel restrictions).
- The park hosted a classic July in 1950, the most remembered game for Ted Williams's collision with a field wall that broke his elbow and ended his season. Less memorable is that it started a turnaround for the Nationals, who won the game in extra round and started winning often, a trend that continued for over three decades, built an incredible 30 wins against just 6 losses and 1 tie (during 1959- 1962, two games are held every year).
- The 50th Anniversary All-Star Game in 1983 was held at Comiskey Park to commemorate the first All-Star Game at the same venue. The American League's oblique victory, including the first grand slam in the All-Star Game, by Fred Lynn, proved to be the end of Premier League dominance in mid-summer classics. During the last eight years of existence of the park, the Americans went 5-3. Hosting The winning All-Star game is also a good sign for the Sox, as they won their division in 1983, the first baseball title of any kind in Chicago since the Sox won the 1959 banner.
- Comiskey Park is the most frequent place to the Negro League East-West All-Star Game from 1933 to 1960. The Negro Leagues All-Star game achieved a higher attendance rate in a few years than its counterpart in Major League Baseball, thanks in part for Comiskey's high attendance capacity.
Fans
From 1971 until its demolition in 1991, Comiskey is the oldest park still used in Major League Baseball (already the oldest in the American League since 1955). Many of the known characteristics, such as the windmill on the "exploding" scoreboard, were installed by Bill Veeck (owner of the White Sox from 1959 to 1961, and again from 1976 to 1981). Another Veeck innovation is a "picnic area", created by replacing the left-hand side of the field wall (side of the field not facing the sunset) with the screen and setting up a picnic table under the seating area. This concept is then extended to the right field. During Veeck's second possession, he sets up a shower behind the speaker horn on the central midfield bench, to keep fans cool on hot summer days.
From 1960 to 1990, Sox fans were also entertained by Andy the Clown, famous for his famous scream like Jerry Colonna, "Come on ooooooooooon, come on! White! Sox!"
Beginning in the 1970s, Sox fans were more entertained by organist Nancy Faust who liked the spontaneous singing of fans who sang songs like, "We will, we will, SOX YOU!" and popularized the now-pervasive farewell to the departing pitcher and the issued manager, "Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, hey-hey, GOOD-BYE!"
Before he became an institution on the north side with Cubs, Sox announcer Harry Caray was a south side icon. At some point he began to "do" Take Me Out to the Ball Game during the seven-innings stretch, spawned by Veeck, who (according to Harry himself) said that the fans would sing together when they realized that none of them sang any. worse than Harry did. Harry occasionally broadcasts from the middle field benches, where he can play with fans and get suntan (or burns).
The biggest crowd at Old Comiskey Park was in 1973 with a crowd of 55,555 (who was 11,063 over capacity) on May 20 for a doubleheader against Minnesota Twins, who also had a "Bat Day" promotion. By contrast, more than two years earlier, the smallest presence in the park was recorded, with a small number of 511 souls emerging for the match against the Boston Red Sox on Thursday, May 6, 1971.
"The Night Disco Dead"
The most famous (or famous) promotional event ever held at Old Comiskey was the "Disco Demolition Night" in 1979, hosted by Chicago's old radio character Steve Dahl and manager White Sox's promotion Mike Veeck (Bill's son) on Thursday, July 12th. Among the make-up dresser games between the White Sox and Detroit Tigers, Dahl and his crew destroyed a stack of disco notes that fans took in instead of tickets at a discount of 98Ã, Â ¢ to honor the Dahl station at the time, WLUP-FM, whose frequency was 97.9 MHz (98 FM). Over 50,000 fans attended, along with another 20,000 who crashed the gate even though the game was sold out. Demolition knocked down huge holes in midfield and several thousand fans, many of them drunk, stormed the field, stealing equipment, and destroying the midfield. The evening drink was postponed, but the league officials decided it would be gone the next day, the fourth in the history of the American League, all in the 1970s. Then, some Dahl are blamed; some people blame Veeck. Howard Cosell even blamed White Sox broadcaster, Harry Caray, saying that Caray contributed to the "carnival" atmosphere. In fact, some gangs have taken advantage of situations where stadium security is poorly prepared. "I never thought that I, a stupid disk disc jockey, could draw 70,000 people to the disco demolition", Dahl said in a Tribune interview. "Unfortunately, some of our followers are a little carried away." It was the last anti-disco rally for WLUP. But it brings Dahl national attention and establishes him as a radio superstar in Chicago.
Transitions
When Bill Veeck regained the team, he took the middle field fence, returning to the original distance to the wall (posted as 440 in the 1940s, measured back as 445 in the 1970s)... difficult targets, but reachable to the lazy such as Oscar Gamble and Richie Zisk and other members of the team labeled "The South Side Hit Men". They have long since been removed from their days as "The Hitless Wonders". During that time the average also featured a lounge where people could buy mixed drinks. This prompted some writers to dub Comiskey "Chicago's Largest Outdoor Saloon".
Last year
In 1969, AstroTurf was installed in infield and adjacent foul areas, with the dirty and adjoining areas remaining as natural grasses. It was the first open field in the major league to install synthetic grass. After seven seasons, artificial grass was removed before the 1976 season.
Over the past eight years, Comiskey's annual attendance exceeded two million three times, including the last season when the Sox competed for most of the year before losing the western division title to Oakland Athletics.
White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf received more than $ 200 million in public financing for the new stadium after threatening to move the club to St. Petersburg. Petersburg, Florida (a similar threat was later used by the San Francisco Giants until they decided what would be their current rough property at the end of 1997). An interesting phenomenon occurred in the state legislature of Illinois, where Speaker (Michael Madigan) literally stopped the clock on the night of June 30, 1988 so that the legislature can report that the money was given on June 30, and not July 1 The stadium is now called Tropicana Field built by officials at St. Petersburg in an attempt to lure Major League Baseball clubs to Florida (who arrived in 1998 in the form of Devil Rays expansion), but Miami defeated the Tampa Bay region to blow when it launched the Florida Marlins expansion in 1993. The deal was sealed in a last minute legislative maneuver by governor James R. Thompson.
On September 30, 1990, with 42,849 people in attendance, the Chicago White Sox played the last game at Comiskey Park, beating the Seattle Mariners 2-1. Mayor Richard M. Daley (a lifelong White Sox enthusiast) throws off the opening pitch, legendary Sox player Minnie MiÃÆ'¡so sends a lineup card to the referee, and famous ball park organizer Nancy Faust plays for the audience during the final game. Also, the former White Sox Vice President, Charles Comiskey, the grandson of whom the park was named, is in hand. The final fight comes as White Sox closer Bobby Thigpen forces Mariner's second baseman, Harold Reynolds, to hit the grounder into the second baseman, Scott Fletcher, who then throws him into Steve Lyons's first baseman for a forced attack. The crowd then joined the organ by singing the last song of their unofficial triumph "Na Na Hey Kiss Mea Goodbye."
Comiskey Park was destroyed 27 years ago in 1991; a process that starts from the back of the right-hand corner of the field, and takes all summer to finish. The last part to go down is a midfield bench and a "burst" scoreboard. The site of the old park was converted into a parking lot to serve those attending a match at the new Comiskey Park (later renamed the Guarantee Level).
By the time Comiskey was destroyed, two Chicago baseball stadiums were combined 157 years old.
Bill Veeck once said that "There is no more beautiful scenery in this world than a stadium full of people!" On his best days, Comiskey put into the gills, with 55,000 or more people lined the aisles and even standing for 9 (or 18) rounds on sloping slopes that crossed behind the scoreboard. A sealed stand that almost completely has a way of capturing and echoing noise without any artificial increase. As a Chicago sports writer once commented, "Wrigley Field yayed and Comiskey Park roared ."
The old Comiskey house plate is a marble plaque on the sidewalk next to the Guarantee Square, and the field is a parking lot. Dirty lines painted in the parking lot. Also, the street of the audience along 35th Street is designed in such a way (partially curved, partially straight but pointing east-northeast) that echoes the outline of parts of the old stands.
Shortly before the demolition of the park, the baseball stadium was featured in the film Just Lonely. John Candy's character (on the first date) is set for a private picnic in the stadium grass under a lamp with his date (Ally Sheedy). Candy refers to the impending demolition of the stadium during that date.
When the Sox won the 2005 World Series, their winning march began at US Cellular Field, and then rounded the block where Comiskey long stood, before heading the route through the southern flanks and toward downtown Chicago.
No hitter in Comiskey
- Addie Joss, Cleveland Naps (AL). April 20, 1910. Cleveland Naps 1 - 0 Chicago White Sox
- Ed Walsh, Chicago White Sox. August 27, 1911. White Sox 5 - 0 Red Sox
- Vern Kennedy, Chicago White Sox. 31 August 1935. White Sox 5 - 0 Indian
- Bill Dietrich Chicago White Sox. June 1, 1937. White Sox 8 - 0 St. Louis Browns
- Bob Feller, Indian Cleveland. April 16, 1940. Indians 1- 0 White Sox
- Bob Keegan, Chicago White Sox. 20 August 1957. White Sox 6 - 0 Senator Washington
- Bill Monbouquette, Boston Red Sox. 1st of August 1962. Red Sox 4 - 0 White Sox
- Joe Horlen, Chicago White Sox. September 10, 1967. White Sox 6 - 0 Tigers
- Jack Morris, Detroit Tigers. 7 April 1984. Tiger 4 - 0 White Sox
Important concert
Other events
Boxing
- On June 22, 1937, Comiskey Park hosted the world heavyweight title fight James Braddock vs. Joe Louis.
Soccer
- October 1, 1984 8,352 attended the first Soccer Bowl '84.
- Comiskey Park is host of the 1990 Marlboro Cup. Among the participating players are Enrique DÃÆ'az, Arnoldo IguarÃÆ'¡n, Carlos Estrada, Daniel PighÃÆ'n, Eric Wynalda, Juan Cayasso, Leszek Pisz, Luis Fajardo, Piotr Nowak, Roberto Siboldi , and Roman Kosecki.
References
External links
- BaseballLibrary.com
- Ballparks.com
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