West Side Park and Related Topics

Chicago Cubs

American professional baseball team based in Chicago.

The 1876 White Stockings won the NL championship.

The 1906 Cubs won a record 116 of 154 games. They then won back-to-back World Series titles in 1907–08.

A sports-related curse that was supposedly placed on the Chicago Cubs by Billy Goat Tavern owner William Sianis during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series.

Ryne Sandberg set numerous league and club records in his career and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2005.

Andre Dawson, 5× All-Star and 1987 NL MVP during tenure in Chicago

Sammy Sosa was the captain of the Chicago Cubs during his tenure with the team.

Kerry Wood, along with Mark Prior, led the Cubs' rotation in 2003.

Dempster emerged in 2004 and became the Cubs' regular closer.

Alfonso Soriano signed with the club in 2007.

Carlos Zambrano warming up before a game

Starlin Castro during his 2010 rookie season

One of two Cubs building blocks, Anthony Rizzo, swinging in the box

The Cubs celebrate after winning the 2016 World Series.

2016 Champions visit the White House in June 2017.

The White Stockings played their home games at West Side Grounds and quickly established themselves as one of the new league's top teams.

Wrigley Field

Major League Baseball stadium located on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.

Videoboard above new left field bleacher seats in 2015

Wrigley's distinctive ivy-covered outfield walls in 2006

View of the right field bleacher seats before the 1060 Project renovations began

April 2006 view from a rooftop across Waveland Avenue

The scoreboard at Wrigley Field is operated by hand.

The iconic marquee outside Wrigley Field

The marquee was temporarily painted purple for the 2010 Land of Lincoln Trophy college football game.

Installed in 1934, the marquee was removed for restoration for the first time in 2015.

Wrigley Field configured for soccer in 2012.

Hockey rink layout during the 2009 NHL Winter Classic between the Blackhawks and Red Wings

The north exterior of Wrigley Field, with manual scoreboard visible, as it appears during the offseason. This picture was taken prior to the outfield bleacher expansion, which brought the bleachers over the sidewalk.

Fans on Waveland Avenue during a 2009 game.

at Wrigley Field is served by Red Line trains. This view is now blocked by buildings constructed in 2007.

Weeghman immediately moved the Cubs from the dilapidated West Side Grounds to his two-year-old park.

University of Illinois College of Medicine

The University of Illinois College of Medicine offers a four-year program leading to the MD degree at four different sites in Illinois: Chicago, Peoria, Rockford, and formerly Urbana–Champaign.

The College of Medicine's Chicago campus sits on a plot of land once occupied by West Side Park, the former home of the Chicago Cubs.

South Side Park

The name used for three different baseball parks that formerly stood in Chicago, Illinois, at different times, and whose sites were all just a few blocks away from each other.

They played a partial schedule at this field in 1891, continuing to play other games at West Side Park (I) during 1891.

Union Base-Ball Grounds

Baseball park located in Chicago.

Lake-Shore Park 1883; Interstate Exposition Building visible in left background

After the season, the city reclaimed the land, and the White Stockings became a road team for the first couple of months of 1885 while awaiting construction of the first West Side Park.

Chicago Whales

The Chicago Whales were a professional baseball team based in Chicago.

Chicago Federals playing at Weeghman Park in April 1914

He then merged the Whales with the Cubs and moved the Cubs from West Side Park into his new steel-and-concrete structure.

Philadelphia Phillies

American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia.

Grover Cleveland Alexander, Phillies pitcher from 1911 to 1917 and 1930

Darren Daulton, Phillies' catcher from 1983, 1985 to 1997

Citizens Bank Park has been the Phillies' home since 2004.

Chase Utley, Phillies' second baseman from 2003 to 2015

Ryan Howard, Phillies' first baseman from 2004 to 2016

Roy Halladay, Phillies' pitcher from 2010 to 2013

Bryce Harper was signed by the team in 2019.

The Phillies play division rival New York Mets at Citizens Bank Park on September 29, 2017.

Gene Mauch, Phillies' manager from 1960 to 1968

Charlie Manuel, Phillies' manager from 2005 to 2013

Ed Delahanty, 1945 Hall of Fame inductee

Mike Schmidt, 1990 Wall of Fame inductee

Steve Carlton, Phillies' pitcher from 1972 to 1986

Chuck Klein, 1932 NL MVP and 1933 Triple Crown winner

John Kruk, Phillies first baseman from 1989 to 1994

8× Gold Glove winner Garry Maddox (1975–1986)

The Centennial Team plaque at the left end of the Wall of Fame

Coca-Cola Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania, home of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Phillies' Triple-A affiliate, April 2009

Harry Kalas, Phillies broadcaster from 1971 to 2009

Phillies fans, who have a reputation for occasional unruly behavior, brawl with New York Mets fans at Shea Stadium, September 2007

Ed Delahanty was the first, hitting his four in Chicago's West Side Park on July 13, 1896.

1914 Chicago Cubs season

The 1914 Chicago Cubs season was the 43rd season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 39th in the National League and the 22nd at West Side Park.

Hank O'Day

American right-handed pitcher and later an umpire and manager in Major League Baseball.

The 1888 Washington Nationals at Boston's South End Grounds

During the 1905 World Series, O'Day (back left) confers with plate umpire Jack Sheridan, New York manager John McGraw (right) and two Philadelphia players.

O'Day in 1907, during his umpiring career

In the meantime, the Chicago White Stockings had opened West Side Park on June 6, less than a mile and a half from the O'Day residence.

1900 in baseball

Chronicle-Telegraph Cup: Brooklyn Superbas over Pittsburgh Pirates (3–1)

July 4 – At the West Side Grounds, about 1,000 of the 10,000 fans at the game fire pistols to celebrate July 4. No injuries were reported. Meanwhile, Chicago beats Philadelphia, 5–4, in 12 innings.