In, the team moved into historic Comiskey Park, which they would inhabit for more than eight decades.

The NL actually gave permission to the AL to put a team in Chicago, and on March 21, 1900, Comiskey moved his St. Paul club to the South Side, where they became the Chicago White Sox.

But in, the White Sox moved into New Comiskey Park, and the team used the move as an opportunity to finally end Andy's performances, informing him that he would not be permitted to appear in costume at the new stadium.

While the Saints were initially a member of that league, Comiskey moved his team to Chicago prior to Opening Day 1900 ( where they still exist today as the Chicago White Sox ).

He moved the White Sox from Comiskey Park to New Comiskey Park and then renamed the new park U. S. Cellular Field.

The NL gave permission to the AL to put a team in Chicago that year, and Comiskey moved his St. Paul club to the South Side.

Johnson, a Cincinnati-based reporter, had been recommended by his friend Charles Comiskey, former major league star with the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s, who was then managing the Cincinnati Reds.

Johnson, a Cincinnati-based reporter, had been recommended by his friend Charles Comiskey, former major league star with the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s, who was then managing the Cincinnati Reds.

He and Mack joined the Buffalo Bisons of the Players League in 1890, after which Hoy returned to the AA with the St. Louis Browns under player-manager Charles Comiskey for the league's final season in 1891, leading the league with 119 walks and scoring a career-high 136 runs ( second in the league ).

The first game in Comiskey Park was a 2-0 loss to the St. Louis Browns on July 1, 1910.

Comiskey entered the American Association in 1882 as a player with the St. Louis Brown Stockings.

* Riehle, Dave, Say it Ain't So, Charlie: The 1897 Dispute Between Charles Comiskey and the St. Paul Labor Trades, Ramsey County History Quarterly V39 # 2, Ramsey County Historical Society, St Paul, MN, 2004.

Lexington Park was commissioned by baseball owner Charlie Comiskey to serve as home for his St. Paul Saints Western League baseball franchise.

Johnson, a Cincinnati-based newspaper reporter, had been recommended by his friend Charles Comiskey, former major league star with the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s, who was then managing the Cincinnati Reds.

And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.

* 1859 – Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager ( d. 1931 )

Originally, the award was known as the J. Louis Comiskey Memorial Award, named after the Chicago White Sox owner of the 1930s.

Since, the White Sox have played in U. S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans.

Probably the most infamous moment in the White Sox rivalry was in 1994 when the White Sox confiscated Albert Belle's corked bat, and the ensuing attempt by Indians pitcher Jason Grimsley to crawl through the Comiskey Park ( now U. S. Cellular Field ) clubhouse ceiling to retrieve it.

Rumor was the Cubs could hold home games across town at Comiskey Park, home of the American League's Chicago White Sox.

July 12, 1979 became known as " the day disco died " because of Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco demonstration at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

* 1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park.

In the first inning, Williams caught a line drive by Ralph Kiner, slamming into the Comiskey Park scoreboard and breaking his left arm.

** A Disco Demolition Night publicity stunt goes awry at Comiskey Park, forcing the Chicago White Sox to forfeit their game against the Detroit Tigers.

* July 6 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

) It was designed by the architect Zachary Taylor Davis ( who four years earlier had designed Comiskey Park for the Chicago White Sox ), incorporating the new " fireproof " building codes recently enacted by the city.

The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game was held at Comiskey Park ( home of the Chicago White Sox ) in conjunction with the fair.

In his last at-bat, at Comiskey Park in Chicago on October 4, he collected a broken-bat single up the middle, but the A's lost to the White Sox, 5 – 2.

It shared the neighborhood now known as Bronzeville with many historic places: Comiskey Park was a few blocks away, west of what is now the Dan Ryan Expressway ; the land used to expand the campus in the 1940s through 1970s was home to many of Chicago's old famous jazz and blues clubs, with performers like Louis Armstrong highlighting the neighborhood.

Comiskey left Cincinnati and the majors in fall 1894 to purchase the Western League club in Sioux City, Iowa and move it to Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Gandil enlisted several of his teammates, motivated by a dislike of club owner Charles Comiskey whom they perceived as a tightwad, to implement the fix ; Comiskey had developed a reputation for underpaying his players for years ( under the MLB reserve clause, players either had to take the salary they were offered, or couldn't play Major League Baseball, as they were property of the original team, and no other team was allowed to sign them ).

Comiskey played in Milwaukee and with the Dubuque Rabbits, a club that Sullivan established.

After five seasons of sharing the Twin Cities with another Western League club in Minneapolis, Comiskey and his colleagues arranged to share Chicago with the National League, whose club ( the Chicago Cubs today ) played on the West Side.

Comiskey continued to own the ballpark for another decade or so ( leasing it out to a replacement American Association club ), until finally selling it to local interests in 1909.

His escort, Louis Jones, then took him not to the Del Prado Hotel downtown, where the Indians players stayed, but to the black DuSable Hotel in Chicago's predominantly black South Side, near Comiskey Park.

The park was built on a former city dump that Comiskey bought in 1909 to replace the wooden South Side Park.

Born on Chicago ’ s South Side not far from Comiskey Park, Lindstrom as a youngster was an ardent White Sox fan, often playing hooky from school to watch their games.

The second South Side Park was at 35th Street and South Wentworth Avenue, just east of the eventual Comiskey Park.

The new Comiskey Park was renamed U. S. Cellular Field in 2003.

It was originally built as White Sox Park, but within three years was renamed for White Sox founder and owner Charles Comiskey.

The site of the old park was turned into a parking lot to serve those attending games at the new Comiskey Park ( later renamed U. S. Cellular Field ).