Among the yellowed pages of a history of baseball yet to be written for its ethical implications and great humanity mixed with an irrepressible emotion, have attracted particular interest in 1990 before the news, properly and wisely diffused only after the last day of the championship, and then closing the event, to be later torn down, the earliest stage of the "Knock and run," the poetic fact Comiskey Park the most famous and acclaimed institution in Chicago after the notorious Al Capone.
Built with large financial resources in 1910, or two years before Fenway Park in Boston and Tiger Stadium in Detroit and in business for a long thirteen years before that in New York decided to increase that mythical and ingenious Yankee Stadium, which became then the latter the most original monument to baseball through the achievements of the acclaimed Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Casey Stengel and Italian-American Joe DiMaggio, the baseball field in the capital of Illinois on September 30, 1990, after eighty years of life, no longer considered adequate to futuristic safety standards and which is not comparable to more sophisticated demands of the game show, closed its doors ceasing to exist. Even before the
cold figures of the business, this date has been the place for fans of a real tragedy because the Comiskey Park for its unique architectural form multiple rings, the quality of its turf, the brightness emanating from the perfect lighting for the races at night, planted in 1939 and inaugurated on August 14 of that year the race with White Sox - St. Louis Browns 5-2, was not only the baseball field in Chicago, but more importantly he was loved as the parlor a house which invite and entertain friends and considered, as the baseball in the United States not only the connective tissue that holds together the entire nation but a religion, the temple par excellence of the "old game".
love for baseball, played spectacular handed down to memory, incredulity toward certain episodes of crime, urban legends and passion filled by not a few struggles in a Chicago neighborhood with no hand in the violence have Finally, at this stage, combining the charisma of reference and an undeniable personality. However, despite the passionate tribute, green diamond Comiskey, after sweeping the first year, not ever brought a solid chance at the local franchise of the White Sox, in fact. Winners of their last back in 1917 as samples acquired in the World Series against the Giants in New York having been able to count on the strong and powerful seal of the great pitcher Red Faber able to run for three consecutive races on the four wins, the White in 1919 with overflow a lot of superficiality from sports news to the black by the most famous scandal in which baseball has never been involved: the whole team has come under fire for corruption by the sporting justice then struck with eight players for life. The murky affair
that arose over the green grass of Comiskey spread violently in the United States by creating around White, now known as Black in the scandal, because in fact many legends, and despite the conviction, the truth of a global corruption was not never fully established. This fact motivated by many opposing views between guilty and innocent. So many times the number of Buck Weaver, Oscar Felsch, Chick Gandil, Eddie Cicotte, Ray Schak, Eddie Collins, Dickie Kerr, Swede Risberg, Fred McMullin, Lefty Williams and especially Shoeless Joe Jackson was fabled in the fertile imagination of fans and became legendary actors and witnesses in many works of pen and entertainment events including those of Richard Pioreck: "Say the Is not So, Joe!" (1983), Kelly Lawrence " Out "(1986)," Shoeless Joe "the television series" Witness "(1960), by Harry Stein:" Hoopla "(1983) to end 1988, when the wise-investigation by Eliot Asinof perfected the Orion Pictures Corp. under the direction of the incisor John Sayles film "Eight Men Out," one of the best film about baseball.
The episode, however, permanently marked is the roster of the franchise that fans cloaked in mystery and the Comiskey Park so that the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson, as well as dismay the protagonist of the film "Field of Dream" (Field of Dreams), starring Kevin Costner, has always disturbed even the memories of fans of the team still convinced of his innocence. However on the evening of September 30, 1990, after the last launch that ended the season inside the White Sox and closed the doors of the oldest American stage, and already the light of the diamond was beginning to fade, there have been many tears and fireworks sent into the sky in memory also of those many wealthy supporters who had demanded that their ashes were scattered on the ground trod by their magical heroes.
"It was ugly, it was raining inside the pillars block your view - the old man said bitterly Winger Danny fan - but only at Comiskey Park I spent the best moments of my life. Knowing now that there will be is like losing a close friend "and sobbing the aristocratic Joe Bosch, who had customized their cars with the license plate" A Man Sox, "noted:" This is the saddest day the history of Chicago. " The closure and future demolition of the stadium Lastly was the widow of Billie Burke as dramatic as a particular moment: "To my husband, who in 1987 desired to be her last wish that his ashes were scattered on the grass toward third base, the Comiskey Park has always been the ' equivalent of Paradise. Now, where I'm going to pray? ". And baseball is, too.
Michele Dodd
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