Schorling's Park

CTL-E-6184 · Venue · other · 1900–1940

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07383 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6184.

Schorling's Park was a Chicago ballpark on 39th Street between Princeton and Wentworth Streets, at 39th and Wentworth, whose life the Society for American Baseball Research divides into a white major-league act, a Black baseball act, and a final decline. Opened as South Side Park, it hosted its first game on April 21, 1900, as the original Chicago home of Charles Comiskey's White Stockings, later the White Sox. After Comiskey moved his club north, tavern owner John Schorling leased the grounds, rebuilt the stands Comiskey had removed, and in 1911 entered partnership with Rube Foster. The Chicago American Giants played their first game there on May 13, 1911, and the park became Black baseball's Chicago home: Foster's club won Negro National League pennants in 1920, 1921, and 1922 and Negro World Series titles in 1926 and 1927 on that ground. SABR records crowds, a 1919 riot-era National Guard encampment, night baseball in 1930, and years of mixed sporting and civic use. Vandals set fire to the wooden park on December 23, 1940; it was never rebuilt, the American Giants moved to Comiskey Park for 1941 onward, and Wentworth Gardens housing was later built on the site.

The record

• Also known as: Schorling Park, South Side Park, White Sox Park, 39th Street Grounds, Cole's Park, American Giants Park, Cole's American Giants Park

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 5 — 747 Program, Wave 12; fifth Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): Gate A: hand-checked entities.json (3,843 entities) for 'Schorling' and all alternate names (South Side Park, 39th Street Grounds, Cole's Park, American Giants Park) — no venue record exists; the name appears only inside the Chicago American Giants description (CTL-E-1228). CLEAR, no home in graph. Supply: Supply: 747 Supply Ledger Tier 4 scan-tail reserve (Scan Tail Wave 4 banked), scan #2179. SCOPE GATE: 747 Supply Ledger Tier 4 scan-tail reserve banked by Scan Tail Wave 4; corpus-gap-candidates rank #2179; Scan Tail Wave 5 Batch C assignment. Vital status: Not a person. Venue destroyed: burned Dec. 23, 1940 and later razed (SABR); site later occupied by Wentworth Gardens. STATISTICS — Counted and dated from opened sources only. SABR: first game Apr. 21, 1900; American Giants tenure from opening day May 13, 1911; rebuilt park estimated to hold 4,500 at a cost of $15,000 (1911, per SABR's cited contemporary reporting); a May 7, 1922 overflow crowd estimated at 16,000–17,000; 1920 admission prices 30 cents (bleachers), 50 cents (grandstand), 75 cents (box seats) per the Chicago Defender of Apr. 10, 1920 as cited by SABR; final fire Dec. 23, 1940, damage estimated at $2,000–$8,000. Wikipedia's team summary gives the same 1911–1940 Schorling's Park tenure. No conflict between the two opened sources on location, tenure, or the 1940 fire. MEDIA: photo HELD (HELD — candidate: the 1907 game-action photograph of South Side Park credited to the Chicago History Museum and reproduced on the SABR park page. No license is claimed or verified; status HELD under CTL-PHOTO-001 pending a cleared record. — named candidate only; file-level rights verification per CTL-PHOTO-001 still required; no license claimed); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6184-schorling-s-park.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged); map HELD (address specification in the media block). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = HELD (HELD address specification, sourced from SABR (opened 2026-10-16): 39th Street between Princeton and Wentworth) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created chart (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced statistics and timeline fact) | video = HELD (Checked against the CTL Shorts Link Map (shorts-link-map-2026-10-15.json, 233 entries) by entity name, alterna) | audio = HELD (No audio asset staged.)

Relationships

• Chicago — located in
  SABR places the ballpark on 39th Street between Princeton and Wentworth Streets in Chicago.

Referenced by

• Frank Wickware — played → this record
• Rube Foster — played → this record

Sources

• Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), Schorling Park (Chicago), by Ken Carrano (accessed 2026-10-16) — Location on 39th Street between Princeton and Wentworth; first game Apr. 21, 1900; alternate names; Schorling lease and rebuilt stands; Foster partnership and American Giants opening May 13, 1911; NNL pennants; 1919 riot and Guard encampment; night baseball 1930; fire Dec. 23, 1940; Wentworth Gardens later built on site — https://sabr.org/bioproj/park/schorling-park-chicago/ (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, Chicago American Giants (accessed 2026-10-16) — American Giants ballpark listed as Schorling's Park 1911–1940, then Comiskey Park 1941–1950 after a destructive fire at Schorling's Park; Negro World Series championships 1926 and 1927; league titles list — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_American_Giants (build store)

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