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I remember that on Sunday Night Baseball. Walker gave the ball to a kid in the stands, then grabbed it back when he realized his mistake.

Memories of Milton Bradley on the Cubs.

MLB rules now restrict teams to 5 uniforms. The 5 this year are the home whites, the road grays, the black alternates, the City Connects, and the old "Southside" City Connect. https://www.colorwaysports.com/stories/white-sox-uniform-schedule-2026

Hoyt was signed out of high school by the Yankees. He came to the Sox in a 1977 spring training deal. Bill Veeck traded Bucky Dent to the Yankees for Gamble, Hoyt, and pitcher Bob Polinsky. (The real key to the deal was the $200,000 that the Yankees sent the White Sox, who were strapped for cash.) Hoyt stayed with the Sox through 1984, though he did retire briefly around 1979 when he was struggling in single-A ball.

Nice reference to Sydney J. Harris.

Two tracks run underneath the 3rd base seats at Target Field.

The language in the legislation extending the tax breaks to "blighted or underused railyards." Seems like this would include the Amtrak site but not the land at the 78. Also interesting that air rights over railroad tracks are included, perhaps in case the Ishbia project ends up capping the adjoining tracks to the west.

You're right, but how does that match the renderings? If that's the St. Charles Air Line bridge in the background of the top drawing, we have to looking south from the west side of the river, and the ballpark is on the other side.

From the renderings, it looks like the ballpark is still on the 78 site, and the Amtrak site has the ballpark village. Also looks like there's a pedestrian bridge that says "Welcome to the home of the Sox."

Interesting details in the Crain's article about how far along this project is. Ishbia's team has already met with the mayor's office, filed "an intent to submit an application" for a federal loan of $383 million through a program designed to finance railroad infrastructure, and has hired three lobbyists to lobby Congress to pass the "All Aboard America Act" to provide more railroad funding. Either Ishbia really likes trains, or he's putting his political muscle into helping move the rail yards off of this property.

The Amtrak land could be an aesthetically better site for a ballpark. The view of downtown is more aligned with left-center field, rather than down the third base line. They might even be able to design it so that home runs to right field land in the river.

The Tribune says the soccer stadium will be 101 feet tall. At modern ballparks, the top row of the upper deck is usually about 100 feet above the field. So assuming that the baseball park is built on the same grade as the soccer stadium, they shouldn't block each other. In the architectural drawings, it looks like they've already decided to sacrifice the left field view in favor of the double deck seating and the scoreboard -- which almost certainly will be bigger in real life because it will be surrounded by ad panels (and hopefully topped by pinwheels if they have the good sense to put them atop the scoreboard where they belong.) The main view will be behind center field toward the lakefront South Loop high rises.

There will still be space for a ballpark, but I'm not sure how extensive the "ballpark village" could be.

First Black batting champion in team history. First two-time MVP.