Photo of the Day: Comiskey Park in color

Unless you've been there, you've probably never seen the White Sox's old ballpark quite like this.

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Known fleetingly (and wonderfully) as "The Baseball Palace of the World" here's a color overhead view of Comiskey Park, which the White Sox called home from 1910 until 1990 ...

As someone who adores old ballparks (and especially old brick facades), I'm filled with gnawing regret by this image because I never made it to Old Comiskey. It's a parking lot now.

This from SABR on the early days of Charlie Comiskey's grand ball-yard:

The Old Roman (Comiskey), 50, hired Chicago architect Zachary Taylor Davis to build at West 34rd and 35th Streets, Portland Avenue (now, South Shields Avenue), and South Wentworth Avenue (Dan Ryan Expressway). The Sox broke ground February 15, 1910, for luck laying the green cornerstone on St. Patrick’s Day. Built for $750,000, Comiskey opened July 1 before 32,000 in a 28,000-seat plot. Gaping, they found it grand.

“Hundreds of automobiles,” the  Tribune said, “carted spectators to the game.” Four bands played. A military unit marched. Reach hailed what may “be without hesitation … declared to be the finest ball park in the United States.”

This isn't the first time we've paid humbled homage to Comiskey (the park, not the sports baron) in this space, and it won't be the last, I'm sure.

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