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Comiskey and White Sox spring training train


Title	Comiskey and White Sox spring training train
Description	Caption: "Charles A. Comiskey has the distinction of being the first club-owner to use special trains to carry his players across the country. In this wintry picture, "Commy" is shown standing in the snow in Chicago just before the White Sox palace-on-wheels left on the spring training trip. Standing to the right of the Old Roman is James J. Callahan; at the left is 'Big Ed' Walsh. The sign on the observation car advertises the 'cargo' and its destination. These specials were renowned not only for the luxuriousness of their fittings, but also for the sumptuous assortment of food and drink provided by the Old Roman. The dispatchers ran the trains on special schedules which permitted the travellers to 'visit' on the way."
Date	1919
Type	Photographs
Identifier	commylifestoryof00axel_raw_0255.jp2
Source	http://www.archive.org/stream/commylifestoryof00axel#page/224/mode/2up
Physical Location	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format	image/jp2
Subject Name	Comiskey, Charles A. Callahan, James J. Walsh, Ed, 1881-1959
Subject	Baseball Railroads
Coverage-Spatial	Chicago (Ill.)
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 Transportation
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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