On July 6, 1933, the first major league All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park. Babe Ruth third-inning two-run home run off Bill Hallahan proves to be the difference to give the American League a 4-2 win over the National League. Connie Mack manages the AL team while John McGraw comes out of retirement to…
Special Memory or Event? Want to have some fun? Advertise your business? Dedicate this page On June 20, 1932 – Doc Cramer of the A’s collects six hits in consecutive times at bat in a nine-inning game. Cramer will do this again in 1935, the only American League player to repeat the feat. Mule Haas adds a grand slam for the A’s‚ while Jimmie…
On July 27, 1928, At Chicago’s Comiskey Park, 41-year-old Ty Cobb of the Philadelphia Athletics makes the final regular start of his Hall of Fame career. Cobb collects a single and a double before being hit with a pitch in the chest by George “Sarge” Connally. The pitch leaves Cobb with a bad bruise, forcing…
Babe Ruth, teeing off on a Tommy Thomas pitch, becomes the first player to homer over the roof of Comiskey Park. The Bambino’s blast helps power the Bronx Bombers past the Pale Hose at the Chicago southside ballpark, 8-1.
At Chicago, Lena Blackburne, filling in for manager Ray Schalk, ejected earlier in the game by Brick Owens, inserts himself as a pinch hitter in the 9th and singles. He comes around to score the winning run as the White Sox edge the Indians, 8 – 7.
On Wednesday, August 22, 1923 At Comiskey Park the Philadelphia Athletics beat the Chicago White Sox 3-2 in 13 innings. In the 12th inning White Sox Sloppy Thurston, facing Beauty McGowan, Chick Galloway, Sammy Hale pitches an immaculate innings. Thurston will give up a single to Bing Miller and he will steal second and score…
The photograph was taken at Comiskey Park on June 16, 1920, before the Yankees vs. White Sox game in which Ruth hit his 18th homer of the season. Ruth will go on to hit 714 homeruns and Jackson will be suspended from baseball after the season for his actions during the 1919 World Series. Sponsor…
On October 9, 1919, At Comiskey Park the Cincinnati Reds wrap up the most tainted World Series in history by defeating the Chicago White Sox, 10-5. Lefty Williams, one of the eight “Black Sox,” allows four runs in the first inning and retires only one batter… The White Sox drop the World Series to the…
On July 21, 1919 At Comiskey Park, 18,000 fans were reveling while watching their first place team take on the New York Yankees in a scheduled doubleheader on a warm summer day on the Southside on July 21, 1919. The spectators would enjoy the fact that the Sox would twice during this day, come from…
Submarine P Carl Mays quits the mound after two innings at Chicago, blaming his teammates for lack of support afield. American League president Ban Johnson suspends Mays indefinitely and orders umpires not to let him pitch. In defiance of Johnson’s order that no action be taken until Mays is returned to good standing, Boston owner Harry Frazee will trade Mays to the Yankees for pitchers Bob McGraw and Allen Russell and $40,000. The Yankees then get a court order restraining Johnson from interfering, further eroding Johnson’s authority and standing, and the American League directors reinstate Mays. In retaliation, on October 29th the National Commission will refuse to recognize the Yankees’ third-place finish and will withhold the players’ share of the World Series pool. New York’s owners will pay out of their own pockets, and Johnson will never recover his authority.
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