American baseball player, manager, team owner (1859–1931)
Baseball player
Charles Comiskey
Comiskey c. 1909
First baseman / Manager / Owner
Born:(1859-08-15)August 15, 1859 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died: October 26, 1931(1931-10-26) (aged 72) Eagle River, Wisconsin, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
May 2, 1882, for the St. Louis Brown Stockings
Last MLB appearance
September 12, 1894, for the Cincinnati Reds
MLB statistics
Batting average
.264
Home runs
28
Runs batted in
883
Stolen bases
416
Managerial record
840–541
Teams
As player
St. Louis Brown Stockings/Browns (1882–1889)
Chicago Pirates (1890)
St. Louis Browns (1891)
Cincinnati Reds (1892–1894)
As manager
St. Louis Browns (1883–1889, 1891)
Chicago Pirates (1890)
Cincinnati Reds (1892–1894)
As Owner
Chicago White Sox (1901–1931)
Career highlights and awards
2× World Series champion (1906, 1917)
4× American Association pennant (1885–1888)
St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction
1939
Election method
Old-Timers Committee
Charles Albert Comiskey (August 15, 1859 – October 26, 1931), nicknamed "Commy" or "the Old Roman", was an American Major League Baseball player, manager and team owner. He was a key person in the formation of the American League, and was also founding owner of the Chicago White Sox.[1] Comiskey Park, the White Sox's storied baseball stadium, was built under his guidance and named for him.[1]
Comiskey's reputation was permanently tarnished by his team's involvement in the Black Sox Scandal, although he was inducted as an executive into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.[1]
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motivated by a mixture of greed and a dislike of penurious club owner CharlesComiskey, to implement the fix. Starting pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude "Lefty"...
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as "the most ambitious baseball undertaking since John McGraw and CharlesComiskey dreamed up their round-the-world junket in 1913." For his team, Feller...
starring Jack Nicholson, and Chicago White Sox baseball team owner CharlesComiskey in Eight Men Out (1988), a drama about the corrupt 1919 Chicago White...
was denied five starts towards the end of the season by team owner CharlesComiskey, who had manager Kid Gleason bench him to "save his arm for the World...
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limited partnership. He followed previous eccentric White Sox owners CharlesComiskey, who was known as a miser, and Veeck, who was known as a prankster...
another team calling itself the Millers was formed when Ban Johnson and CharlesComiskey revived the Western League in hopes of making it a second major league...
season to continue studying for his law degree. Despite White Sox owner CharlesComiskey offering him more money to come to spring training, Berg declined,...
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