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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 ...
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.
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 ...
However, Seymour was undeterred. The game against Louisville was played in the morning, and in the afternoon, he went to Sewickley to pitch a game for the local club there. Following his baseball years, he worked as a bartender and served on both the local police force and fire department (as a Horseman with Engine Co. 1).
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).
Les Miller Field at Curtis Granderson Stadium is a baseball venue in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is home to the UIC Flames baseball team of the NCAA Division I Missouri Valley Conference . The facility has a capacity of 1,000 spectators and is named for Les Miller , UIC head baseball coach from 1949 to 1979, and Curtis Granderson , an ...
The Windy City ThunderBolts are a professional baseball team based in the Chicago suburb of Crestwood, Illinois, in the United States. The ThunderBolts are a member of the Frontier League (FL), [1] as a member of the West Division in the Midwest Conference. Since 1999, the ThunderBolts have played their home games at Ozinga Field. Formerly ...