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Wrigley Field originally Weeghman Park, then Cubs Park Home of: Chicago Chi-Feds/Whales – Federal League (1914–1915); Chicago Cubs – NL (1916–present) Location: 1060 West Addison Street (south, first base); Clark Street (southwest and west, home plate); Waveland Avenue (north, left field); Sheffield Avenue (east, right field)
Rate Field (formerly Comiskey Park II, U.S. Cellular Field and Guaranteed Rate Field) is a baseball stadium located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.It is the home ballpark of Major League Baseball’s Chicago White Sox, one of the city's two MLB teams, and is owned by the state of Illinois through the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority.
100 yards along [right field] foul line to west end of fencing; Batter facing southeasterly; Open seating 200 feet on north end, another 200 feet on east side; Covered grandstand in northwest corner; Chicago Baseball Association clubhouse in southwest corner; No contemporary illustration of the ballpark is known to survive.
The park was located on a small block bounded by Congress (north, left field), Loomis (west, center field), Harrison (south, right field) and Throop (east, home plate) Streets. The elongated shape of the block lent a bathtub-like shape to the park, with foul lines reportedly as short as 210 feet (64 m). The stadium held roughly 10,000 fans.
East Oakland stretches between Lake Merritt in the northwest and San Leandro in the southeast. It generally has a diagonal layout. East Oakland has numbered avenues (1st to 109th) that run northeast to southwest, and numbered streets (East 7th to East 38th) that run northwest to southeast. Interstates 580 and 880 also run northwest to southeast.
The city of Chicago and the Chicago Cubs combined to invest $1.5 million in repairs and the stadium reopened its doors in June 2006. [4] The park has since been renamed The Stadium at Devon and Kedzie. [3] An area landmark was the giant baseball with the name Thillens on a large pole in the front of the ballpark on Devon Avenue.
The field generally occupied the same footprint as the future Comiskey Park along with Armour Square Park. The Chicago Tribune , in an article on January 19, 1890, stated that the property was bounded by 33rd and 35th Streets to the north and south, and by Wentworth Avenue and the Rock Island Railroad to the east and west respectively.
Artist's conception from an 1871 map. Union Base-Ball Grounds was also called White-Stocking Park, as it was the home field of the Chicago White Stockings of the National Association in 1871, after spending the 1870 season as an independent professional club playing home games variously at Dexter Park race course and Ogden Park. [1]