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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 ...
West Side Park (II) South Side Park (III) Comiskey Park Wrigley Field U.S. Cellular Field. 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)
Thillens' idea was to have a baseball park that anyone can use, rent-free. It cost Thillens a total of $6 million to build the park. In 1940 the ballpark erected lights for night use. In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s both Little League games and men's 16-inch softball games were televised from the park by WGN-TV, with Jack Brickhouse announcing. [1]
The site also saw "bonus baseball" in 1887, as a neutral site for Game 14 of that year's unique 15-game "traveling" World Series between the Browns and the Detroit Wolverines. In 1891 the team split its schedule between West Side Park and South Side Park (II). The first West Side Park was abandoned after the 1891 season, with the team playing ...
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The first home game for the Chicago White Stockings in the newly formed National League came on May 10, 1876, with the locals defeating Cincinnati. The final game played at this park was on Saturday, October 6, 1877. Chicago defeated Louisville 4–0 behind a shutout effort from hurler Laurie Reis.
Chicago, Illinois: 1890 Nonsectarian 2,977 Scarlet Hawks: 1949 1993? 1981? 2013 Northern (NACC) [b] University of Illinois–Chicago: Chicago, Illinois: 1858 Public 30,539 Flames: 1949 1978? (or 1980?) Horizon [f] Indiana Institute of Technology: Fort Wayne, Indiana: 1930 Nonsectarian 7,000 Warriors: 1978 1988 Wolverine–Hoosier (WHAC) Kendall ...
Guaranteed Rate Field (formerly Comiskey Park II and U.S. Cellular Field) is a baseball stadium located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.It is the 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.