Old Comiskey Park

Floyd Sullivan, a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, is a writer and photographer and lives in Chicago. His Cubs blog is www.waiting4cubs.com.

“an entertaining and well-written book, with a variety of essays that do a fine job of capturing the history of the park over its eight decades.... A real strength of the book is its extensive use of photographs to tell the story of the park’s history.... The photos alone make this book a valuable work...a comprehensive and very interesting book, one that should be of interest to serious baseball fans”—SABR Deadball Committee Newsletter “an historical book series such as the McFarland Historic Ballparks collection, whose latest installment encompasses the 81 year story of Old Comiskey Park in Chicago, the long-time home of Barack Obama’s beloved White Sox”—Life.nationalpost.com; “for anyone who loved the old park, it’s an absolute must-have, and for any White Sox fan or student of baseball history, it’s a great read.”—Kurt Smith, author of Ballpark E-Guides series.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword delete(Mike Veeck)Introduction delete(Floyd Sullivan)I—History and BackgroundThe Neighborhoods delete(Carl Rinder)Diamond in the Rough: The Transformation of a Forgotten Area into a Home for Baseball delete(Richard A. Smiley)Inside the Park: Dimensions and Configurations of Comiskey Park I (Ronald M. Selter)Special Years at Comiskey Park: ­All-Star Games, the American League Championship Series and the World Series delete(Stephen D. Boren)Negro League Baseball at Comiskey Park delete(Christopher Kamka)Bill Veeck and Comiskey Park delete(Dan Helpingstine)From Wrestling to Football to Rock ’n’ Roll: Comiskey Park as a Multiuse Venue delete(Floyd Sullivan)II—Memories of Old Comiskey ParkMary Frances Veeck Remembers Husband Bill and the ’59 White SoxFootball at Old Comiskey Park delete(Stormy Bidwill)The Chicago Cardinals at Old Comiskey Park: Ray Geraci and Carl Scichili in the Football Press Box Interview delete(Floyd Sullivan)Take Me Out to Old Comiskey Park delete(Greg Prince)Tearing Down the Old Ballpark, 1991Part I. Erasing Comiskey Park from the Face of the Earth (Patrick T. Reardon)Part II. Demolition delete(Eric Hess)Players and Personnel RememberFans RememberAppendix—The Scoreboard delete(Floyd Sullivan)BibliographyAbout the Contributors and IntervieweesIndex