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Charles A. Comiskey


Title	Charles A. Comiskey
Description	Caption: "The Old Roman ready for a hike in the northern woods (1917)." From text: "Wherever the Sox go, at trainload of camp followers are certain to be on the trail. Many found it inconvenient to go in the spring. For these 'Commy' instituted the annual fall hegiras to the northern woods. Prominent men in all walks of life and from different sections of the country have been guests of Comiskey at Springstead and Mercer, Wisconsin."
Date	1917
Type	Photographs
Identifier	commylifestoryof00axel_raw_0078.jp2
Source	http://www.archive.org/stream/commylifestoryof00axel#page/n77/mode/2up
Physical Location	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format	image/jp2
Subject Name	Comiskey, Charles A.
Subject	Baseball
Coverage-Spatial	Wisconsin
Date of Content	1910-1919
Publisher	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois at Chicago
Rights	Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Sub-Collection	People Men
Collection	Picture Chicago
Book Title	"Commy": the life story of Charles A. Comiskey, the "Grand old Roman" of baseball and for nineteen years president and owner of the American league baseball team "The White Sox."
Author of the Book	Axelson, Gustaf W.
Link to the Full-Text	http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:commylifestoryof00axel

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