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When Grace Reidy, daughter of a Chicago traction executive, set off on her honeymoon in 1913, she had plenty of company. Two baseball teams went with her -the Chicago White Sox and the New York Giants. Her father-in-law, Charles Albert ("The Old Roman") Comiskey, founder-owner of the White Sox, had arranged a world exhibition tour for the two teams. With them she visited eight countries, sat in the same grandstand with King George V, skedaddled home just ahead of World...
...husband's appetite been reasonable, Mrs. John Louis Comiskey's intimate association with baseball might have ended with her honeymoon. It was not. He ate himself up to a round 400 lb., retired to a hospital to diet, came out and ate himself back up again. This seasonal performance alarmed jolly, portly Grace Comiskey. For her husband was vice president and treasurer of the White Sox. With an eye to the future, she showed up at the ball games, sitting in Box No. 45, near home plate...
...Louis took over the White Sox. He lasted eight years. His will be queathed the $2,000,000 ball club to his wife and children, but directed Chicago's First National Bank to run it. The bank, not much liking so ephemeral a trust, wanted to sell. Grace Comiskey fought the action...
...dimple-chinned kid young enough to be his son: 21-year-old Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians. Like Grove, Feller is his team's No. 1 pitcher and was therefore assigned to start the Indians' opener, against the White Sox in Chicago's Comiskey Park...
...Other inmates: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, Napoleon Lajoie, Tris Speaker, Cy Young, Grover C. Alexander, Connie Mack, Ban Johnson, John J. McGraw, Morgan Bulk.eley, George Wright, Alexander Cartwright, Henry Chadwick, Cap Anson, A. G. Spalding, Charles Radbourne, Arthur Cummings, Charles Comiskey, Buck Ewing, Eddie Collins, Wee Willie Keeler, George Sisler...