Charles Comiskey

As a player

As a manager

  • St. Louis Browns (1883, 1884-1889, 1891)
  • Chicago Pirates (1890)
  • Cincinnati Reds (1892-1894)

As the owner

  • 2 × World Series champion (1906, 1917)
  • Statistics as manager: 840-541

Charles Comiskey ( born August 15, 1859 in Chicago, Illinois; † 26 October 1931 in Eagle River, Wisconsin ) was an American baseball player, manager and team owner. After his time as a player he gained great notoriety as the owner of the Chicago White Sox. The stadium of the club, the Comiskey Park, was named after him and was until 1990 home to the White Sox.

Eight years after his death, he was honored for his life's work and incorporated into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Career

Comiskey began his career as a baseball player in the amateur field. He first played with the future Hall of Famer Charles Radbourn at the Dubuque Rabbits in Iowa. In 1882, he managed the leap into the professional sports. In St. Louis Comiskey joined the newly formed Baseball Club St. Louis Brown Stockings. The club was also a member of the newly formed American Association in 1882. This competed at that time with the National League for supremacy in American baseball. Therefore, at that time the World Series was played between the winners of the leagues for the first time. It Comiskey took part in a row as player-coach with the St. Louis Browns from 1885 to 1888 four times. 1886 St. Louis won the only team of the American Association, the World Series.

1890 Comiskey left the club and joined with three other team mates back to his home in Chicago. There he became player-coach of the Chicago Pirates of the Players' League. The Pirates set after just one season playing mode again and Comiskey moved back to St. Louis. He stayed a year in Missouri and then went to Ohio. In Cincinnati to Comiskey joined the Reds, for whom he was active as a player-coach two years. During this time he was less successful than before in St. Louis and ended his career finally after two years in Cincinnati.

Time as the owner of the White Sox

After Comiskey had left the Reds in the autumn of 1894, he bought a club of the Western League in Sioux City, Iowa and moved with this a little later to Saint Paul. There, the club remained a resident for five years before Comiskey moved again with the franchise. The new home of the club was now Comiskeys hometown of Chicago. The club was renamed the Chicago White Stockings and played from 1900 in the American League, which was built in 1901 to a Major League. In his time as the owner could, later renamed the White Sox team, five times the American League win and as a result two times the World Series (1906 and 1917 ). In addition he built with the Comiskey Park one of the then most modern ballparks for his club.

His behavior in dealing with his players in financial matters is today considered a potential major reason for the Black Sox scandal. Dissatisfied with their salaries and disappointed because of a win bonus was not received, decided eight players the White Sox, who deliberately against the Cincinnati Reds to lose the World Series 1919. After the Black Sox scandal, the White Sox are drowned in the mediocrity of the American League and were only five years after the death Comiskeys again compete for the top places in the table.

First Baseman May 2 September 12 Batting Average Hit (Baseball) Run (Baseball) 1906 World Series National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum October 26 American Association (19th century) Saint Paul (Minnesota)
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