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South Side Park III

Chicago · 1901–1910 · config 1910

Favors pitchers

(-0.1 runs for the away team)

Dimensions

LF 330′ · SLF 398′ · LFA 397′ · LC 397′ · LCC 420′ · CF 405′ · RC 360′ · RFA 360′ · SRF 368′ · RF 325′

Walls LF 6′ · LC 6′ · CF 6′ · RC 20′ · RF 8′

Hitless Wonders' yard before Comiskey

Average foul ground

Capacity 15,000

The Hitless Wonders' wooden home before Comiskey rose.

Overhead diagram

South Side Park III overhead schematicLF 330′SLF 398′LFA 397′LC 397′LCC 420′CF 405′RC 360′RFA 360′SRF 368′RF 325′6′ wall6′ wall6′ wall20′ wall8′ wallAverage foul groundStands not in library

Photograph

South Side Park, home of the White Sox, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1907-1913.jpg
South Side Park, home of the White Sox, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1907-1913.jpg · Franklin Post Card Co. / Wikimedia Commons · 1907 · Public domain

About this park

South Side Park was early White Sox baseball before Comiskey — a wooden South Side yard with pitcher lean in the book. The neighborhood remembers the name; the stands are gone.