Au contraire on the liberal neuron slur. You have no idea how hilarious that aspersion is coming, as it does, from bib overall country.
Edify yourself with this:
1919 Black Sox: Take a tour of the local landmarks on the 100th anniversary of the scandal
Kinda seasonal, baseball history, scandal, graves and a memorial.
By Tim Bannon and Phil Rosenthal
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/white-so...story.html
Chicago Tribune |
Oct 09, 2019 | 12:18 PM
Considering 100 years have passed since the Black Sox lost the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds, it’s remarkable that so many vestiges of the dark saga remain.
There are many sites in the Chicago area, although because it was a national scandal, others are scattered around the country.
Near Fenway Park, for example, is Boston’s Buckminster Hotel, where on Sept. 18, 1919, White Sox first baseman Chick Gandil is said to have shared the scheme with gambler Joseph “Sport” Sullivan in Room 615.
The exceptionally rich history of New York City’s Ansonia Hotel includes it being the site of a Sept. 21, 1919 meeting at which Gandil and pitcher Eddie Cicotte told White Sox teammates of their scheme to fix the Series.
Greenville, S.C., is home to the “Shoeless” Joe Jackson Museum and Library, recalling the great Sox outfield, although there was talk earlier this year of relocating it nearby.
Cincinnati’s Crosley Field, home of the 1919 Reds, no longer stands at Findlay Street and Western Avenue. But the original location of home plate is marked in an alley behind City Gospel Mission.
The graves of Gandil, Swede Risberg, Lefty Williams and Fred McMullin are in California. Cicotte’s gravesite is in Livonia, Mich., and Happy Felsch’s in Brookfield, and manager Kid Gleason is interred in Philadelphia.
Chicago, however, is home to many places associated with the Black Sox scandal to check out.
It won’t be as visually thrilling as a Chicago architecture tour — for one thing, there is no boat — or as chilling as a Chicago ghost tour, but the Black Sox tour has its rewards.
Cook County criminal courthouse, 54 W. Hubbard St.
Exterior of Court House Place, also known as the old Cook County Criminal Court Building at 54 W. Hubbard St. It was the site of the 1921 trial of the Chicago White Sox players charged with fixing the 1919 World Series.
This is the one structure still standing in Chicago that played a role in the baseball drama.
The former Criminal Court Building was site of the 1921 trial of the eight Sox players accused of fixing the 1919 World Series.
The trial began on June 27, 1921. Finally on Aug. 2, 1921, the 12-man jury deliberated for only 2 hours, 47 minutes. At 11:22 p.m. the court clerk read the first verdict: “We, the jury, find the defendant, Claude Williams, not guilty.” Several hundred people in the courtroom cheered. All the players were cleared.
“Everybody knew I had nothing to do with the conspiracy,” third baseman Buck Weaver said.
But the acquittals were just a reprieve. The next day, baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis ruled the players allegedly involved would be banned for life from organized baseball.
The courthouse was built in 1893. Otto Matz was the architect. (It was also the site of the Leopold and Loeb murder trial.) After the courts were relocated, the Board of Health moved in. Then in the 1980s it was sold to a developer who converted it into a private office building
Charles Comiskey’s grave, Calvary Cemetery, Evanston
The grave of Charles Comiskey at Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Evanston.
I don't bike IN it but rather right past it, sometimes whistling.
After an 18-year playing career and two years managing the Cincinnati Reds, Comiskey in 1894 bought a Western League team in Sioux City, Iowa, and moved it to Minneapolis. In 1900 he moved the team to Chicago and renamed it the White Stockings.
He owned the team until he died in 1931, winning two World Series in 1906 and 1917. In 1910 he built Comiskey Park.
Comiskey had a reputation of being stingy with his players, even charging them 25 cents to clean their uniforms. But most of the owners at the time were tight with their money, and in fact the Sox under Comiskey had the highest payroll in the league in 1919.
Ray Schalk’s grave, Evergreen Cemetery, Evergreen Park
Grave of Ray Schalk at Evergreen Cemetery in Evergreen Park.
Schalk, who played 17 seasons with the Sox, was one of the game’s best catchers.
He was not a conspirator in the scandal. He also managed the Sox in 1927-28. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955. He died in 1970 at 77.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis’ grave, Oak Woods Cemetery
Grave of Kenesaw Mountain Landis at Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago.
Landis, a former federal judge, was the first commissioner of professional baseball.
The day after the Black Sox trial ended, Landis ruled the players allegedly involved would be banned for life from organized baseball.
He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1944, the year he died.
The White Sox' George "Buck" Weaver in an undated photo.
Weaver, third baseman on the 1919 Sox, reportedly said he attended a few players-only meetings on the fix but opposed throwing the games. Weaver had a strong series, batting .324 with no errors.
“He told the gamblers where to go when they approached him — Buck didn’t want anything to do with them,” his niece Patrica Anderson told the Tribune in 2015. “But he had sympathy for the other Black Sox and didn’t want to tell on them.”
He was one of the eight Sox put on trial in 1921 and later banned from baseball.
Home plate from the old Comiskey Park.
Once known as “The Baseball Palace of the World,” the ballpark, financed by Charles Comiskey and designed by Zachary Taylor Davis, was built in 1910.
The last game at the stadium was on Sept. 30, 1990, and it was demolished the next year. The ballpark played host to four World Series, include four games in the 1919 Sox-Reds Series. The site of the old stadium is now a parking lot. And there, in the exact spot where home plate of old Comiskey Park once stood, you’ll find a marker with the dates 1910-1990.
Edify yourself with this:
1919 Black Sox: Take a tour of the local landmarks on the 100th anniversary of the scandal
Kinda seasonal, baseball history, scandal, graves and a memorial.
By Tim Bannon and Phil Rosenthal
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/white-so...story.html
Chicago Tribune |
Oct 09, 2019 | 12:18 PM
Considering 100 years have passed since the Black Sox lost the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds, it’s remarkable that so many vestiges of the dark saga remain.
There are many sites in the Chicago area, although because it was a national scandal, others are scattered around the country.
Near Fenway Park, for example, is Boston’s Buckminster Hotel, where on Sept. 18, 1919, White Sox first baseman Chick Gandil is said to have shared the scheme with gambler Joseph “Sport” Sullivan in Room 615.
The exceptionally rich history of New York City’s Ansonia Hotel includes it being the site of a Sept. 21, 1919 meeting at which Gandil and pitcher Eddie Cicotte told White Sox teammates of their scheme to fix the Series.
Greenville, S.C., is home to the “Shoeless” Joe Jackson Museum and Library, recalling the great Sox outfield, although there was talk earlier this year of relocating it nearby.
Cincinnati’s Crosley Field, home of the 1919 Reds, no longer stands at Findlay Street and Western Avenue. But the original location of home plate is marked in an alley behind City Gospel Mission.
The graves of Gandil, Swede Risberg, Lefty Williams and Fred McMullin are in California. Cicotte’s gravesite is in Livonia, Mich., and Happy Felsch’s in Brookfield, and manager Kid Gleason is interred in Philadelphia.
Chicago, however, is home to many places associated with the Black Sox scandal to check out.
It won’t be as visually thrilling as a Chicago architecture tour — for one thing, there is no boat — or as chilling as a Chicago ghost tour, but the Black Sox tour has its rewards.
Cook County criminal courthouse, 54 W. Hubbard St.
Exterior of Court House Place, also known as the old Cook County Criminal Court Building at 54 W. Hubbard St. It was the site of the 1921 trial of the Chicago White Sox players charged with fixing the 1919 World Series.
This is the one structure still standing in Chicago that played a role in the baseball drama.
The former Criminal Court Building was site of the 1921 trial of the eight Sox players accused of fixing the 1919 World Series.
The trial began on June 27, 1921. Finally on Aug. 2, 1921, the 12-man jury deliberated for only 2 hours, 47 minutes. At 11:22 p.m. the court clerk read the first verdict: “We, the jury, find the defendant, Claude Williams, not guilty.” Several hundred people in the courtroom cheered. All the players were cleared.
“Everybody knew I had nothing to do with the conspiracy,” third baseman Buck Weaver said.
But the acquittals were just a reprieve. The next day, baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis ruled the players allegedly involved would be banned for life from organized baseball.
The courthouse was built in 1893. Otto Matz was the architect. (It was also the site of the Leopold and Loeb murder trial.) After the courts were relocated, the Board of Health moved in. Then in the 1980s it was sold to a developer who converted it into a private office building
Charles Comiskey’s grave, Calvary Cemetery, Evanston
The grave of Charles Comiskey at Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Evanston.
I don't bike IN it but rather right past it, sometimes whistling.
After an 18-year playing career and two years managing the Cincinnati Reds, Comiskey in 1894 bought a Western League team in Sioux City, Iowa, and moved it to Minneapolis. In 1900 he moved the team to Chicago and renamed it the White Stockings.
He owned the team until he died in 1931, winning two World Series in 1906 and 1917. In 1910 he built Comiskey Park.
Comiskey had a reputation of being stingy with his players, even charging them 25 cents to clean their uniforms. But most of the owners at the time were tight with their money, and in fact the Sox under Comiskey had the highest payroll in the league in 1919.
Ray Schalk’s grave, Evergreen Cemetery, Evergreen Park
Grave of Ray Schalk at Evergreen Cemetery in Evergreen Park.
Schalk, who played 17 seasons with the Sox, was one of the game’s best catchers.
He was not a conspirator in the scandal. He also managed the Sox in 1927-28. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955. He died in 1970 at 77.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis’ grave, Oak Woods Cemetery
Grave of Kenesaw Mountain Landis at Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago.
Landis, a former federal judge, was the first commissioner of professional baseball.
The day after the Black Sox trial ended, Landis ruled the players allegedly involved would be banned for life from organized baseball.
He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1944, the year he died.
The White Sox' George "Buck" Weaver in an undated photo.
Weaver, third baseman on the 1919 Sox, reportedly said he attended a few players-only meetings on the fix but opposed throwing the games. Weaver had a strong series, batting .324 with no errors.
“He told the gamblers where to go when they approached him — Buck didn’t want anything to do with them,” his niece Patrica Anderson told the Tribune in 2015. “But he had sympathy for the other Black Sox and didn’t want to tell on them.”
He was one of the eight Sox put on trial in 1921 and later banned from baseball.
Home plate from the old Comiskey Park.
Once known as “The Baseball Palace of the World,” the ballpark, financed by Charles Comiskey and designed by Zachary Taylor Davis, was built in 1910.
The last game at the stadium was on Sept. 30, 1990, and it was demolished the next year. The ballpark played host to four World Series, include four games in the 1919 Sox-Reds Series. The site of the old stadium is now a parking lot. And there, in the exact spot where home plate of old Comiskey Park once stood, you’ll find a marker with the dates 1910-1990.
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