CALUMET 412

Chicago Cubs, from left to right: Higbe, Garback, Epperly and Flowers, 1937, Chicago.

University of Chicago baseball team, 1897, Chicago.

Although the term was not coined until 1985, Chicago’s first “Crosstown Classic” meeting between the Cubs and the White Sox was during the 1906 World Series.

White Sox Luke Appling and Orville Grove, 1943, Chicago

Race discrimination in baseball , 1910, Chicago.

The Chicago Colleens batting at Wrigley, All American Girls Professional Baseball League, 1948, Chicago.

Ski jumping at Wrigley Field, 1944, Chicago

Bum races at Wrigley, 1966, Chicago.

Thanks to AXELROD for noting that this is a photo of probably the “bleacher bum races:”

axelrod said: Actually - I think those are the bleacher bum races - the reason the outfield wall now has baskets - to catch the drunks who would race between innings