Search Results for “Charles Comiskey” – Society for American Baseball Research

Biographies

Charles Comiskey

One of the most influential figures in the history of the sport, Charles Comiskey had a 55-year odyssey through professional baseball that ran the gamut: captain of one of the greatest teams of the nineteenth century; league-jumper during the 1890 players’ rebellion; one of the chief architects of the American League’s emergence in 1901 as […]

Rucker Archives

Charlie Comiskey December 1917 Baseball Magazine Cover

Charlie Comiskey 1933 Who’s Who in Major League Baseball Portrait

Charlie Comiskey 1983 1915 Cracker Jack (reprint) Baseball Card Back

Charlie Comiskey 1983 1915 Cracker Jack (reprint) Baseball Card Front

Charlie Comiskey 1916 Sporting News (M101-5) Reprint Baseball Card

Charlie Comiskey 1986 Fritsch 1887-90 Old Judge (N172) (Reprint) 4 Baseball Card Back

Charlie Comiskey 1986 Fritsch 1887-90 Old Judge (N172) (Reprint) 4 Baseball Card Front

Journal Articles

Buying the White Sox: A Comic Opera Starring Bill Veeck, Hank Greenberg, and Chuck Comiskey

When Bill Veeck and Hank Greenberg arrived at Comiskey Park on March 11, 1959, as the new owners of the White Sox, Chuck Comiskey raced away in his Cadillac. Greenberg waved, but Comiskey did not return the gesture.1 It was as if Chuck, whose grandfather Charles had brought the White Sox to town in 1900, […]

There Was Almost No World Series in 1905, Too: How Charlie Comiskey Could Have Ended the Fall Classic Before it Started

The morning of October 4, 1905, broke as had many other early autumn days over the prior four decades: with baseball teams locked in the throes of a pennant race. This season it was Charles Comiskey’s White Stockings of Chicago pitted against Connie Mack’s Athletics of Philadelphia in the nascent American League, and unlike some […]