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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.
Home of: Chicago White Sox – AL (mid-1910 – 1990); Chicago American Giants – Negro leagues (1941-ca.1950) Location: 324 West 35th Street – 35th Street (south, first base); Shields Street (west); 34th Street (north, left field); Wentworth Avenue (east, right field) and Dan Ryan Expressway (farther east) Currently: Parking lot Gunther Park
The Chicago Cubs are the crosstown rivals of the White Sox, a rivalry that some made fun of prior to the White Sox's 2005 title because both of them had extremely long championship droughts. The nature of the rivalry is unique; with the exception of the 1906 World Series , in which the White Sox upset the favored Cubs, the teams never met in an ...
On September 30, 1990, with 42,849 in paid attendance, the Chicago White Sox played the last game at Comiskey Park, defeating the Seattle Mariners 2–1 . Mayor Richard M. Daley (a lifelong White Sox fan) threw out the opening pitch, legendary Sox player Minnie Miñoso delivered the lineup card to the umpires, and well-known ball-park organist ...
It was a few blocks west of the 1884 ballpark. The 39th Street Grounds served as the playing field of the Chicago Wanderers cricket club during the 1893 World's Fair and then through 1899. After Charles Comiskey built a wooden grandstand on the site in 1900, it became the home of the Chicago White Sox of the American League. It served as home ...
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]
White Sox in the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame: No. Player Position Tenure Notes 15: Dick Allen: 1B/3B: 1972–1974: 11: Luis Aparicio: SS: 1956–1962, 1968–1970: 4, 5, 8: Luke Appling: SS: 1930–1943, 1945–1950 — Harry Caray: Broadcaster: 1971–1981: 44: Phil Cavarretta: 1B/OF: 1954–1955: Elected mainly on his performance with ...
Bossard joined the White Sox in 1967 working as an assistant to his father, Gene Bossard, and became the official head groundskeeper when his father retired in 1983. He is known amongst the industry as "The Sodfather" [1] [2] and is highly influential in the development of new ballparks. He is the longest-tenured groundskeeper in major-league ...