TeamChicago American Giants
LocationChicago, Illinois
Closed1940
Capacity9,000
About Schorling's Park
The home of Rube Foster's Chicago American Giants from 1911 through 1940 — and effectively the headquarters of organized Black baseball during the Negro National League I era (1920–1931), since Foster also founded and ran the league from Chicago. The American Giants won three of the first four NNL pennants here. The wooden grandstand burned down on Christmas Day 1940, ending the venue's baseball use. Today the site is occupied by modern apartments at 39th and Wentworth.
Fun facts
- Rube Foster — known as the 'Father of Black Baseball' — both played, managed, owned, AND ran the entire Negro National League from this ballpark.
- Originally the South Side Park, home of the White Sox before they moved to Comiskey in 1910.
- The wooden grandstand burned to the ground on Christmas Day 1940 in a fire of suspicious origin.
- The American Giants won the first three Negro National League pennants (1920–1922) playing here.
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