This day in baseball: Comiskey Park is born
Posted: February 10, 2015 Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: Baseball, Charles Comiskey, Chicago White Sox, Comiskey Park, history, Major League Baseball, MLB, sports 2 CommentsGround broke on February 10, 1910 for the construction of Charles Comiskey’s new “Baseball Palace of the World,” located in Chicago at the corner of 35th Street and Shields Avenue. This palace was to be a concrete and steel stadium, built to replace the outdated South Side Park. Originally named White Sox Park, the stadium opened on July 1, 1910 and soon became known as Comiskey Park. The stadium was particularly spacious, with dimensions of 362 feet down each line and 420 feet to straight-away center field. The first night game in Chicago was played at Comiskey Park on August 14, 1939.
Comiskey Park under construction in 1910 (Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum)
I like that end of the world looking photo especially because it’s probably the beginning?
I thought the same thing when I saw it: “They’re building it? It looks like a demolition site.” Not that I spend enough time around construction sites to be able to tell the difference right off.