Comiskey Park, Baseball venue in South Side, Chicago, United States
Comiskey Park was a baseball stadium in the South Side neighborhood of Chicago that served as home to the Chicago White Sox from 1910 to 1990. The facility at 324 West 35th Street featured a fireproof steel and concrete structure with outfield dimensions of 362 feet (110 meters) down the foul lines and 440 feet (134 meters) to center field.
The stadium opened on July 1, 1910, and remained in operation for eight decades until its final game against the Seattle Mariners on September 30, 1990. A new ballpark with the same name was built directly across the street to replace it.
The venue carried the name of its builder and longtime Chicago White Sox owner Charles Comiskey, who designed it as a showcase for professional baseball. For eight decades, fans gathered here to watch their team play, making the ballpark a fixture in the sporting life of the South Side.
The facility offered seating for 28,000 spectators and included an electronic scoreboard that celebrated White Sox home runs with lights, sirens, and fireworks starting in 1960. Visitors reached the ballpark through several entrances along 35th Street in the southern part of the city.
The venue hosted the very first Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 1933, where Babe Ruth connected the first All-Star home run in history. No player reached 100 career home runs here, with Carlton Fisk holding the highest total at 94 during the ballpark's eighty years.
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