Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

Comiskey Park was home to the Chicago White Sox from 1910-1990. Comiskey hosted the very first All-Star game in 1933, host park for the Cubs in the 1918 World Series vs. the Red Sox, and location for Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979.

Field dimensions
(1910)
Foul lines - 363 ft (111 m)
Power alleys - 382 ft (116 m)
Center field - 420 ft (128 m)
(1986)
Foul lines - 347 ft (106 m)
Power alleys - 382 ft (116 m)
Center Field - 409 ft (125 m)


Opening Day for Brand New Comiskey Park--July 1, 1910



Picture of 1935 White Sox superimposed over Comiskey Park: LF-Rip Radcliff, CF-Al Simmons, RF-Mule Haas, 3b-Jimmy Dykes, SS-Luke Appling, 2b-Jackie Hayes, 1b-Zeke Bonura, P-Ted Lyons, C-Luke Sewell



aerial photo of Comiskey Park in the 1940s



1959 World Series--Lollar Sac Fly Scores Landis, Kluszewski retreats to 1b, Roger Craig pitching for Dodgers, Roseboro C, Hodges at 1b, Charlie Neal at 2b, Maury Wills at ss, Duke Snider in CF, Norm Larker in RF



Comiskey in the early 1960s



Comiskey in the early 1970s. Notice the Astroturf in the infield. Installed in 1969 and torn out in 1976.



Disco Demolition Night. July 12, 1979.




Comiskey in the early 1980s



Comiskey in the late 1980s

I was at Disco demolition. A wild doubleheader and the last time a team forfeited a baseball game.
I miss the old park. It had character. It was like watching the game sitting in your living room. You felt like you were at home at old Comskey.

Free Radicals wrote:I was at Disco demolition. A wild doubleheader and the last time a team forfeited a baseball game.
I miss the old park. It had character. It was like watching the game sitting in your living room. You felt like you were at home at old Comskey.

I did a Wrigley/Comisky on Friday and UMich at ND in South Bend the last year of the old Comiskey. It was obvious they'd let the park go without maintenance in a lot of areas, but it was still a good place to see a game, as most of the old parks are.

I'd trade the ferris wheel and merry-go-round of the new Tiger stadium for the sight lines of the old Tiger Stadium. I've heard the same about the new Comiskey, upper deck seats are far enough away that the game is a rumour.

Does anybody recall the placards that were up on the left and right field rooftops at Comiskey sometime in the mid-1970's that recorded a rooftop HR? I am not sure which year those went up and when they came down. I think Ron Kittle hit several rooftop HR's in his time with the Sox. Ruth, Foxx and other sluggers had signs up there, but so did players like backup catcher Tom Egan.

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