We'll never know how much hoopla would have gone with the 100th anniversary of Comiskey because it is now a parking lot for the new Comiskey Park across 35th Street, later renamed that other name which I shall not mention.
Said Sox fan (yes, there are a few of us) Doug Bukowski: "With all due respect to Wrigley Field, it's not that important that Jimmy Buffett and Bruce Springsteen went there. What is important is there is a place on the South Side where the color line fell in the American League, and where Joe Louis became heavyweight champion of the world."
"And, yes, Babe Ruth went to Wrigley Field. But guess what? He did it like twenty times a year at Comiskey." It was the Babe that owner Charles Comiskey to double deck the outfield stands to pack more fans in to see him.
Bukowsky, now 61 was even part of an effort to save the old Comiskey Park back in the late 1980s. At that time, most Sox fans were more worried about losing the team to Tampa-St. Petersburg, in Florida where the club owners Reinsdorf and Einhorn had threatened to move if they didn't get a new, state-funded stadium.
Well, the Sox didn't move and are still here. Thankfully, but....
Always a Sox Fan. --Cooter
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