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Saperstein was a leading figure in the black baseball leagues. At various times, he owned the Chicago Brown Bombers , the Birmingham Black Barons , and the Cincinnati Crescents baseball teams. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] He also created several new leagues, including the Negro Midwest League and, in partnership with Olympic track and field star Jesse Owens ...
Comiskey Park was the site of three Major League Baseball All-Star Games, and each marked a turn in the direction of dominance 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 connection with the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition being held ...
Welles Park is one of the 5 parks created by the Lincoln Park Commission and is named after Gideon Welles. [1] It is part of the City's park system administered by the Chicago Park District . A volunteer organization, The Welles Park Advisory Council helps support the park.
Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, of Japan, warms up with other pitchers and catchers at the Dodgers baseball spring training facility, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Phoenix.
The park's inaugural season drew 2,934,154 fans — at the time, an all-time attendance record for any Chicago baseball team. View from the upper deck of then U.S. Cellular Field in 2006 In recent years, money accrued from the sale of naming rights to the field has been allocated for renovations to make the park more aesthetically appealing and ...
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.
Willie James Wells (August 10, 1906 [1] – January 22, 1989), nicknamed "the Devil", was an American baseball player.He was a shortstop who played from 1924 to 1948 for various teams in the Negro leagues and in Latin America.
Austin Kenneth Wells (born July 12, 1999) is an American professional baseball catcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the University of Arizona, and the Yankees selected him in the first round of the 2020 MLB draft. Wells made his MLB debut in 2023. [1] [2]