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Seymour "Cy" Block (May 4, 1919 – September 22, 2004) was an American professional baseball second baseman and third baseman for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball during the 1942, 1945, and 1946 seasons.
Harold Seymour (June 10, 1910 – September 26, 1992) was an American baseball historian and academic who is best known as the co-author of the baseball history trilogy: Baseball: The Early Years, Baseball: The Golden Age, Baseball: The People's Game. Though Seymour was initially credited as the sole author of the highly acclaimed trilogy, his ...
Major League Baseball pitcher and coach Born in Chicago [15] Gloria Schweigerdt: Jun 10, 1934: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player Born in Chicago [16] Alek Thomas: April 28, 2000: Major League Baseball player Born in Chicago Stan Wasiak: Apr 8, 1920: Nov 20, 1992: Minor league manager, King of Baseball: Born in Chicago ...
In this ballpark, the Chicago White Stockings played baseball from 1874 to 1877, the first two years in the National Association and the latter two in the National League. The 1871 Great Chicago Fire had put the original White Stockings club out of business, and its best players scattered to other National Association clubs. For 1872, the ...
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]
This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Chicago. The information is a synthesis of the information contained in the references listed. Dexter Park Home of: Chicago White Stockings, independent professional club (1870) Location: Halsted Street (east), between 47th Street (south) and the imaginary line of 42nd Street (north).
The club spent the first five-plus weeks of the 1885 season on the road, [3] and the park was finally opened on June 6 with a victory over the St. Louis Maroons, late of the Union Association. Despite being "wanderers" early in the season, the powerful Chicago club, under player-manager Cap Anson, came home with an 18–6 record. They would ...
Chicago is one of eleven U.S. cities to have teams from the five major American professional team sports (baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and soccer). Chicago has been named as the "Best Sports City" by Sporting News three times: 1993, 2006, and 2010. Chicago was a candidate city for the 2016 Summer Olympics but lost to Rio de Janeiro. [1]