Full Text of HR1049 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, In 1900, Charles "The Old Roman" Comiskey became | 3 | | involved in the birth and development of the American League; | 4 | | in January of 1900, Comiskey became the owner of the Chicago | 5 | | White Stockings and moved the franchise to Chicago to be a part | 6 | | of the newly formed League; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, As the White Stockings, the team played the | 8 | | first-ever game of the American League on April 21, 1900; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, The people of Chicago soon shortened the team's | 10 | | name to "White Sox"; the new name was accepted by the Comiskey | 11 | | family and eventually became the team's official name; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, In 1910, Charles Comiskey oversaw the building of | 13 | | Comiskey Park, the home of the White Sox for more than 8 | 14 | | decades; Comiskey served as the owner of the team until his | 15 | | death in 1931; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, J. Louis Comiskey, Charles' only child, inherited | 17 | | and owned the team until his death in 1939; ownership of the | 18 | | Chicago White Sox was then passed onto his wife, Grace; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Grace Comiskey served as the owner of the Chicago | 20 | | White Sox from 1939 to 1956; she was baseball's second female |
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| 1 | | executive and the first in the American League; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Under the ownership of Grace Comiskey, the White | 3 | | Sox signed Minnie Minoso, the team's first African-American | 4 | | player, and Luis Aparicio, the league's first Hispanic American | 5 | | Rookie of the Year winner; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Grace Comiskey passed away in 1956, leaving the | 7 | | controlling share of the team to her first child, Dorothy | 8 | | Comiskey Rigney, the wife of former White Sox pitcher John | 9 | | Rigney; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, along with her mother, | 11 | | was a sports pioneer, being one of the few women to have served | 12 | | as principal owner of a Major League Baseball team; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, After the 1958 season, Dorothy Comiskey Rigney | 14 | | sold the White Sox to Bill Veeck, ending the Comiskey family's | 15 | | 58-year control of the franchise; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, John and Dorothy are the parents of Illinois State | 17 | | Representative Patti Bellock; therefore, be it
| 18 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 19 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 20 | | we recognize the legacy of the Comiskey family and the family's |
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| 1 | | contribution to the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois; | 2 | | and be it further
| 3 | | RESOLVED, That we honor the history made by Grace and | 4 | | Dorothy Comiskey as two of the first women to have served as | 5 | | owners of a Major League Baseball team; and be it further | 6 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 7 | | presented to Illinois State Representative Patti Bellock as a | 8 | | symbol of our great esteem and respect.
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