About South Side Park
South Side Park was the original home of the Chicago White Sox, located at 39th Street and Wentworth Avenue on Chicago's South Side. When Charles Comiskey moved his team from St. Paul to become an AL charter member in 1900, he built this simple wooden grandstand that served as the Sox's home for the first decade of the American League's existence.
The park achieved immortality in 1906 when the White Sox — a light-hitting team so weak offensively that the press dubbed them the "Hitless Wonders" — somehow defeated their city rivals, the mighty Chicago Cubs, in the World Series. The Cubs had won a modern-era record 116 games that season and were heavy favorites; the Sox's upset remains one of the greatest in World Series history, and it all unfolded at South Side Park.
Comiskey replaced the aging wooden facility with the magnificent new Comiskey Park in 1910, which would stand for 80 years. South Side Park was demolished the following year, and no trace of it remains in what is now a densely developed neighborhood.
Fun facts
- The "Hitless Wonders" had the lowest team batting average in the AL yet defeated the greatest Cubs team ever assembled.
- Charles Comiskey replaced this park with the "Baseball Palace of the World" — Comiskey Park — in 1910.
- Standing-room crowds often doubled the stated capacity for big games.
- The 1906 World Series upset remains one of the biggest in Fall Classic history.
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