South Side Park
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| Location | West 38th Place & South Princeton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60609 |
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| Coordinates | 41°49′28″N 87°37′58″W / 41.82444°N 87.63278°WCoordinates: 41°49′28″N 87°37′58″W / 41.82444°N 87.63278°W |
| Capacity | 15,000 |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 1890 |
| Opened | 1890 |
| Closed | 1940 |
| Demolished | 1940 |
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Chicago Pirates (MLB: PL) (1890) (MLB: NL) (1891–1893) Chicago White Sox (MLB: AL) (1901–1910) Chicago American Giants (Negro Leagues) (1911–1940) |
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South Side Park was the name used for three different baseball parks that formerly stood in Chicago, Illinois, at different times, and whose sites were all just a few blocks away from each other.
The first South Side Park was the home of the short-lived Chicago Unions entry in the Union Association of 1884. Newspapers gave its location as "the corner of 39th Street and South Wabash Avenue", not specifying which corner.
The venue was also called Union Base Ball Park and 39th Street Grounds in local newspapers. A late-winter report on "improvements" to the 39th Street Grounds indicates the site had already been used as an amateur ball field.
The Unions played 35 games at this park between May 2 and August 1.[1] The papers indicated they were then headed on a three-week road trip. After that road trip, they re-emerged as the Pittsburgh entry, which played five home games at Exposition Park before taking to the road for the last few weeks of their existence.[2]
The second South Side Park was first the home of the Chicago Pirates entry in the Players' League of 1890 (whose roster included Charles Comiskey), and then was the home of the National League club now called the Chicago Cubs during parts of 1891–1893. In 1890, it was usually called Brotherhood Park in the local newspapers, as with several of the Players' League venues.
The park's location was typically given as 35th and Wentworth, which was the location of the main entrance, and convenient to an east-west rail line.
The field generally occupied the same footprint as the future Comiskey Park along with Armour Square Park. The Chicago Tribune, in an article on January 19, 1890, stated that the property was bounded by 33rd and 35th Streets to the north and south, and by Wentworth Avenue and the Rock Island Railroad to the east and west respectively. The article said the grandstand would be built along 35th Street. However, another article exactly one month later stated that the grandstand was being built on the 33rd Street side of the block, to hold 4,000 patrons, and additional "bleaching boards" seating to accommodate another 3,000.
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