Comiskey Park

…Sox’s storied home stadium of Comiskey Park, located on the South Side of Chicago. Some 50,000 fans attended the event, while thousands more gathered outside the stadium after its capacity of about 45,000 seats was breached. As promised, a giant crate filled with donated disco records was blown up with…

…American League, was played at Comiskey Park in Chicago in 1933. During the 1920s club owners also cautiously embraced radio broadcasting of games. The first major league game broadcast took place in Pittsburgh in 1921, but during that decade only the Chicago Cubs allowed broadcasts of all their games. Many…

…allowing him to tear down Comiskey Park. The new publicly funded Comiskey Park (now known as Guaranteed Rate Field), which opened in 1991, was subsidized by taxpayers and contained a large number of premium-priced seats. Similarly, in 1994 Reinsdorf unveiled the new United Center to replace Chicago Stadium—another iconic Chicago…