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1930-5-15 "Another likely looking star on the Pyotts is Chuck Stewart, former Illinois University star, who was grabbed by the St. Louis Cardinals following his graduation, but who decided at the last minute to accept a good position with the Equitable Life Insurance company and passed up the national pastime as a legitimate profession. Stewart has headquarters in Chicago. His home is in Lafayette, Ind."
Heading into the 1909 season, Gunthers Manager Bill Niesen told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
“‘I paid him [Keeley] a big salary for working one day in the week but Washington didn’t think about me when it signed him to a big league contract. He was my best asset as far as players are concerned and yet I had no protection for him. I have close to $100,000 invested in my plant [Gunther Park]…but must stand to one side whenever a big league club owner chooses to take away one of my players.
‘Now Keeley…wants to come back to Chicago and continue his work in the bank where he was formerly employed. If he does this, he will be forced to give up his Sunday ball playing, for which he can make as much as he can make in the bank, simply because he is tied on the reserve list of the Washington club. If he comes out and plays with my club, he’ll be blacklisted and my club will be set down as tainted and filled with outlaws. I don’t wish to be dragged into such trouble, but if Keeley refuses to play in the big leagues and the big leagues refuse to release him, I may take him in once more.’”25
"The independent United States Baseball League began play in 1912. Bill Niesen owned Chicago’s entry, called the Green Sox, and Keeley served as manager. The Green Sox played their home games at Gunther Park. Chicago uncorked the season with a 15–8 loss to Cleveland on May 8, at home, with a mere 2,000 fans in attendance.40 The league lasted one month and four days before it folded. Poor weather and attendance, and scarcities of capital and bankable star players factored into its demise.41"
"On December 29, [1913,] club president Charles Weeghman announced he had purchased land – once owned by Mike and Joe Cantillon – for a new ballpark at Clark and Addison Streets on Sheffield Avenue, directly to the north of DePaul.45 With the opening of Weeghman Park (now known as Wrigley Field) the following spring, nearby Gunther Park was abandoned. The old Gunther Park site became the extant Chase Park in the 1920s, a city park named for Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase."
1926 Hammond, with Buck Weaver
1935 Niesen's Colored All-Stars
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