Charles Comiskey

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Charles Comiskey
Charles Comiskey.jpg
First baseman , manager , team owner
Born: August 15, 1859
Chicago , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Died on: October 26, 1931
Eagle River , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Suggested: Right Threw: Right
Debut in Major League Baseball
May 2,  1882  with the St. Louis Browns
Last MLB assignment
  With the Cincinnati Reds September 12, 1894
MLB statistics
(until end of career)
Batting average    , 264
Hits    1,530
Runs    994
Teams

As a player

As a manager

  • St. Louis Browns (1883, 1884–1889, 1891)
  • Chicago Pirates (1890)
  • Cincinnati Reds (1892-1894)

As the owner

Awards

member of
☆☆☆Baseball Hall of Fame☆☆☆
Recorded     1939
Special selection    Veterans Committee

Charles Albert Comiskey (born August 15, 1859 in Chicago , Illinois , † October 26, 1931 in Eagle River , Wisconsin ) was an American baseball player , manager and team owner . After his time as a player, he became well known as the owner of the Chicago White Sox . The club's stadium, Comiskey Park , was named after him and was home to the White Sox until 1990.

Eight years after his death, he was honored for his life's work and inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame .

Career

Comiskey began his career as an amateur baseball player. He first played with the later Hall of Famer Charles Radbourn with the Dubuque Rabbits in Iowa . In 1882 he made the leap into professional sport. In St. Louis Comiskey joined the newly formed baseball club St. Louis Brown Stockings . The club was a member of the American Association, which was also founded in 1882 . This competed at the time with the National League for supremacy in American baseball. Therefore, the World Series was held for the first time between the winners of the leagues. Comiskey took part in this as a player-coach with the St. Louis Browns from 1885 to 1888 four times in a row. In 1886, St. Louis became the only American Association team to win the World Series.

In 1890 Comiskey left the club and moved with three other teammates back to his home in Chicago. There he was player-coach of the Chicago Pirates in the Players' League . The Pirates stopped playing after just one season and Comiskey moved back to St. Louis. He stayed in Missouri for a year and then went to Ohio . In Cincinnati Comiskey joined the Reds , for whom he was active as a player-coach for two years. During this time he was less successful than before in St. Louis and finally ended his active career after two years in Cincinnati.

Time as the owner of the White Sox

Comiskey at a White Sox game, ca.1910

After Comiskey had left the Reds in the fall of 1894, he bought a Western League club from Sioux City , Iowa, and moved it to Saint Paul a little later . The club stayed there for five years before Comiskey moved the franchise again. The new home of the club was now Comiskeys hometown Chicago. The club was renamed Chicago White Stockings and played in the American League from 1900 , which became a Major League in 1901. During its time as the owner, the team, later renamed White Sox, won the American League five times and, as a result, the World Series twice (1906 and 1917). He also built Comiskey Park, one of the most modern baseball stadiums at the time, for his club.

His behavior in dealing with his players on financial issues is now seen as a possible main reason for the Black Sox scandal . Dissatisfied with their salaries and disappointed with a failure to receive a win bonus, eight White Sox players decided to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds . After the Black Sox scandal, the White Sox sank into the mediocrity of the American League and were only able to play for the top places in the table again five years after Comiskey's death.

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personal data
SURNAME Comiskey, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Comiskey, Charles Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American baseball player, manager, and team owner
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1931
Place of death Eagle River , Wisconsin