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J. Louis Comiskey
(Owner of Chicago White Sox, 1931-1939)

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  • Takes over the team after his father dies
  • First move: Spends big bucks for quality ballplayers
  • Haas, Simmons, and Dykes give Sox respectability
  • Goes on to create White Sox farm system
  • Battles health problems, weight problems, dies young
  • Father: Charles A. Comiskey

    • Lou's most important decision was to install lights. Unfortunately he died less
    than a month before the first night game ever played in Chicago. How sound
    was his decision?

    In 1940, the Sox outdrew the Cubs for the first time in fifteen years           
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