Word: comiskeys
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...fans ride him. But he has been a model of gentlemanly deportment compared to last year, when he was thumbed from seven games, had the league in an uproar over such antics as heaving an orange and a baseball (both missed) at Bill Veeck's absurd $300,000 Comiskey Park Scoreboard, which fires rockets and blows horns when White Sox players hit home runs...
First Game. Opening the series in their own Comiskey Park behind burly, 39-year-old Pitcher Early Wynn (22-10), the no-hit White Sox suddenly turned robust sluggers while the Dodger defense fell apart in a horrendous, seven-run third inning. Centerfielder Duke Snider dropped one fly ball in a collision, later threw wildly to the infield. Trying to cut off the ball, First Baseman Gil Hodges slipped ignominiously and sat down hard on the infield grass, while Sox runners scampered around the bases. Scouting reports had assured Dodger pitchers that Chicago's muscleman First Baseman Ted Kluszewski...
...sweet smell of success wafted over Chicago's Comiskey Park. With just three weeks left to play, the go-go White Sox were still in first place, and Commissioner Ford Frick had flashed the sign to start preparing World Series tickets. Even the San Francisco Giants, leaders of the National League, were giving the White Sox a vote of confidence by sending a scout to look them over...
...last week, said Bill Veeck (rhymes with peck), onetime owner of the Cleveland Indians and St. Louis Browns, now the new boss of the Chicago White Sox. For $2,700,000, Veeck and associates bought control from the squabbling Comiskey family, who had controlled the team since 1901. The skill of the good-pitch, no-hit Sox may not improve right away, but the ball games in Comiskey Park are bound to be livelier...
...afternoon in 1921 in the old Polo Grounds. And the Babe belted it so far it set a special kind of record: it broke the hands of an outfield clock some 500 ft. from the plate. It was Pitcher Kerr who asked his boss Charles ("The Old Roman") Comiskey for a raise after winning 40 games in two seasons. "Just give me a dollar more than the $4,800 I'm getting," he pleaded. Once more he was beaten; Comiskey refused. So Dickie Kerr took his pride to the outlaw leagues and never again amounted to anything in organized...