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Mark Salas was born on Wednesday, March 8, 1961, in Montebello, California. Salas was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on June 19, 1984 played catcher for the White Sox in 1988.
Dick Allen was born on Sunday, March 8, 1942, in Wampum, Pennsylvania. Allen was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 3, 1963, played for the White Sox from 1972 through 1974.
"Your body is just like a bar of soap. It gradually wears down from repeated use." - Dick Allen (1968)
29 Days to Opening Day !!!!
1972 - Players on the White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary, during negotiations between players and owners. The dispute centers around health and pension benefits for players. This is the first of a series of landmark team votes.
Jim Landis was born on Friday, March 9, 1934, in Fresno, California. Landis was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 16, 1957, with the Chicago White Sox
"I remember two things (about playing in the 1962 All-Star Game). When I was growing up I admired Stan Musial. In those days both teams stayed at the same hotel. Well I come out of the hotel getting on the bus to go to the park and who's looking right at me? Stan Musial. I got to sit next to him on the bus and we talked. The other thing I remember is that I got into the game and came up to hit and the pitcher for the National League is Bob Shaw. I got a real funny feeling because I didn't want to hit against him. He was my friend and my teammate for a number of years." - Jim Landis (Jim Landis Interview, Baseball Almanac, Mark Liptak)
28 Days to Opening Day !!!!
Whoever is writing all this useless crap about baseball should be going to another blog. This blog is about the neighborhood.
I agree I'm sick of useless baseball information.
i kind of like the baseball stuff...keep writing, baseball guy!
Wow you need to open your minds ... Maybe inandaround60655 should take down the baseball poll because it is not about the neighborhood ??? Like I said before if you do not like it, do not read it ... You know some of it is not exciting ... but some of it is history ... Like Moe Berg who caught for the White Sox and becamme an OSS agent (now known as the CIA). Wait I know what some of you with the National Inquirer minds want to know ??? Who is cheating on who or How many neighborhood Moms have been arrested for shoplifting lately? ... sorry for those answers and the answers to many more questions like that you will just have to suffer with not knowing ... it's time we stop looking to hurt each other and try to make things better ... many people complain about the way things are, but few take action ... so things never get better ... let's take Ginger Rugai for instance ... many complain about her, but yet she keeps getting elected ... Why, because people in our neighborhood do not vote !!! Various excuses apply ... It's too cold outside, It's raining, It's snowing, I did not feel good that day, or the best one of all ... what's the difference, it's only one vote ... but that one vote times ten times one hundred times one thousand times ten thousand, makes a difference ... During Iraq's first free election people stood in line for miles to vote under the threat of death because they wanted to make a DIFFERENCE. Could you picture people in 60655 doing that. Not a chance ... because many of the people here in 60655 as well as America have their head buried in the sand with the "If it does not affect me I do not care attitude." Sommerville ran twice against Rugai and lost. John would have been a good change, the man went door to door and told us what he was all about. I remember seeing him on the New Years Eve ringing door bells telling people what he would do. But then came Gingers precinct captain's playing the race card "You know his wife is black" and "he will only take care of people in Beverly because that is where he is from" I threw the jerk of my porch ... but here we are years later with the same old problems ... How about this ... Let's start a petition to allow the Inspector General's office to investigate the alderman (which they are now prohibited to do) Who wants to take the lead on that one? Why would that be important? Maybe because the I/G would find out how much money was given to Rugai for all these failed neighborhood projects. Like the defunct Ice Rink on 115th and Western, or the Walgreens project on 111th and Kedzie. How much money went her way to build the Beverly Art Center ... How much money is in her Campaign fund currently ??? You would see city services improve ten fold if that was allowed to happen ... But you know what, know one will take the lead and it will be the same old thing again ... it does not affect me directly SOOOO all I have to say is ...
28 Day's to Opening Day !!!!
Since I am on my soapbox how about this Inandaround ??? How about this ... start a post where titled "Post one historical fact about inandaround60655?" ... I'll start ...
Actor John C. Reilly looks like he could be a beer truck delivery driver, or a pizza chef, a policeman, a lawyer, anything but a movie star. He is a homely schlump who seems the living embodiment of "everyman," and he is one of the cinema's most versatile character actors, believable as a thug or a cop, a monk or a madman.
Reilly was raised in a working-class Chicago neighborhood (inandaround60655), attended an all-boys Catholic school (Brother Rice), and says he "grew up in musicals." He became interested in acting as a young boy, performing in community plays from the age of eight. Through high school and into his college years he was a familiar presence in Chicago-area stage productions and, of course, school plays. While attending DePaul University, he wrote and performed for Chicago's Organic Theatre, then worked with the famous Steppenwolf Theater.
He made his feature film debut playing a particularly savage soldier in Casualties of War with Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn. He has disappeared into dozens of movie roles since, and it is more than coincidental than many of Reilly's movies have been excellent. He played Johnny Depp's pal in What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, a porn performer seemingly modeled on Ron Jeremy in Boogie Nights with Mark Wahlberg, the laconic Sergent Storm in Terrence Malick's Thin Red Line, Kevin Costner's catcher in For the Love of the Game, the real estate agent who leased Jennifer Connelly a wet apartment in Dark Water, a singing cowboy in Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion, and Will Ferrell's clueless buddy in Talladega Nights.
He played cops in Woody Allen's Shadow and Fog, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne, and Boys with Winona Ryder, criminals in State of Grace with Sean Penn, The River Wild with Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon, Gangs of New York with Daniel Day-Lewis, and Criminal with Diego Luna. He played the lunkhead husband of Renée Zellweger in Chicago, and of Jennifer Aniston in The Good Girl. He had a rare but memorable lead as a chronic gambler in the superb but little-seen Hard Eight with Philip Baker Hall.
He debuted on Broadway in The Grapes of Wrath with Gary Sinise in 1990, and returned in 2000 to co-star with Philip Seymour Hoffman in Sam Shepard's True West. In a remarkable show of theatrical bravado, Hoffman and Reilly switched roles from night to night during the play's run — and both actors were Tony-nominated.
Reilly has never been an outspoken activist for animal rights, but in 2004 he quit his role in Manderlay in disgust when a donkey was intentionally killed on the set, its death filmed for the movie. Reilly's part was re-cast, and in the hubbub of bad publicity the animal's death was left on the cutting room floor.
He has occasionally played drums in Tenacious D as "Sasquatch".
How many people actually knew this ???
Mount Greenwood is a two-square-mile community area bounded by eight cemeteries and the suburbs of Oak Lawn, Alsip, Evergreen Park, and Merrionette Park. Because of the presence of cemeteries, the area was once known as Seven Holy Tombs.
German and Dutch truck farmers were active in the area by the Civil War. In 1879, George Waite received a state land grant of 80 acres, and named the area Mount Greenwood after the presence of trees on an elevated ridge. It seemed ideally suited for a cemetery.
By 1897 taverns and restaurants emerged on 111th and Sacramento Streets to serve mourners following funerals, which were all-day horse-driven affairs. Dog and horse racing tracks were also close by, so that an assortment of customers patronized 111th Street. Irish saloons served corned beef and cabbage, while German saloons served sauerbraten and dumplings.
The first religious congregations in the community were Methodist and Reformed, respectively attracting German and Dutch Protestants. The Dutch and German populations were later joined by other European immigrant groups, including Irish, Welsh, English, Poles, Lithuanians, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes.
In the early 1900s, Protestant temperance crusaders sought to close down the saloons and make the community dry like nearby Morgan Park. But the opposition succeeded in incorporating Mount Greenwood in 1907 as part of a strategy to remain wet. In 1927 Mount Greenwood voted for annexation to Chicago, hoping for improvements such as sewers, water mains, hard-surfaced streets, streetlights, and a new public school, but such changes were slow to arrive. It was not until 1936 that the Works Progress Administration finally laid sewage systems and paved and lighted city streets. As late as the 1960s, the Mount Greenwood Civic Association was still fighting the city for curbs and gutters.
From 1930 to 1950, Mount Greenwood experienced its first spurt of residential growth, with population increasing from 3,310 to 12,331. These young families required new schools, parks, and public recreation areas. In the first years after World War II, from 1945 to 1953, 4,000 new homes were built. But there was only one industry in Mount Greenwood, the Beverly Shear Company, and population declined from 23,186 in 1970 to 19,179 in 1990.
By the 1980s, Mount Greenwood was home to the last surviving farm in the city, which was developed as the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences. The magnet school stirred controversy in the late 1980s, when black students were bussed into the overwhelmingly white community. This led to a community protest and increased racial hostility. By 2000 the population had declined to 18,820, of whom 94 percent were white, with African Americans and Hispanics each under 4 percent.
Oh Yeah ... I put some typo's in my post for all you grammar freak's ... Can you find them ????
when did centralpark flooded i think it was 1975 that was from 112-115 street
Great, now you've gone and done it. Baseball guy I like you better as baseball guy. BTW you are right on a lot of levels. Screw the whiners, do what you do best,
i "heart" the baseball dude!
baseball dude for mayor!
Life's Too Short said... You are the funniest person on this blog, I enjoy learning historical facts and insight with a sharp wit. I agree if you don't like it don't read. I almost choked on my spit laughing at your comments this time. Keep it up as we all anticipate opening day!
i just want to let u know that if there is any body kids who go to st rita high school there is a freshman who is in the band that play drums the just pleaded guilty to sexual assalt to a minor (under 7) and he will still be able to stay a rita and he still can go to italy
what a school
please post
1959 - Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, granddaughter of the Old Roman, Charles Comiskey, sells her 54 percent ownership in the White Sox to Bill Veeck's syndicate for $2.7 million. Brother Chuck fails in his attempt to match or improve the bid. Comiskey control of the franchise ends after 60 years.
John Cangelosi was born on Sunday, March 10, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York. Cangelosi was 22 years old when he broke into the big leagues on June 30, 1985, with the Chicago White Sox. He still makes his home in the Chicagoland area today ...
27 Days to Opening Day !!!!
My son is a sophmore at St. Rita...can you confirm where you got this information? I would like to follow up on this with school administration to see why my son is now forced to be in an environment with a kid that should obviously be in a psych ward!
call the school and ask today was his court day ...the school knows i call this afternoon no call back
call the school and ask today was his court day ...the school knows i call this afternoon no call back
Well the school used to train preists what do you expect
Could you do some type of post in which parents from Casale tell how they feel about the school especially those who have taken from St, Chris
Thanks for putting me in your links list! I wrote a couple posts about places in the area to get Irish items and my general take on the parade day. Hope you enjoy! Mary Anne www.beverlymorganpark.net
the family who spend there money to send the son to rita should be up in arm they work so hard to make there payment. they want there son to be safe that why they are at rita. now there is a piece of garbage who is in the band going to italy.
who is getting Financial Aid and is pleaded guilty of a sexcrime gets to staying in that school.
the rita family have to to something to get this kid out of there.
God forbid you miss a payment but all is forgiven for sexual assault???? It is a business not a religious school. IF there is $ for low income children to attend why not just lower the tuition all around for all instead? Oh yes.....it is a business and if they can get the consumer to overpay...why not. Make it look good like they are offering to take in the poor. If this was sone to you at Sears would you shop there?
My point was just made again....Fox News just reported that 100 students at Marion Catholic were told to go home because parents fell behind on tuition payments! It's a business folks not a caring and compassionate religious education center. How about a feel good story about Catholic schools letting in the poor for free. Start demanding a good public High School for our neiborhood from our public officials. Make some noise!
Mrs. Sally E. Deenihan
Principal
773-925-6600 | Ext. 6615
this is the principal at rita askwhy this animal is still there
Just as a FYI to everyone regarding the day of the Southside Parade, there will be an additional 55 Illinois State Troopers in the area around the parade assigned specifically to address DUI drivers--specifically in Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn, Alsip and in Merrionette Park-----Zero Tolerance will be in effect! Be careful Sunday and tell your friends and family members to be have a designated driver!
Cold and Rain in the forcast ... awesome ... can not wait
Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.
The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street -- a lot of singles, but no action.
The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.
26 Days to Opening Day !!!!
Anonymous said...
Mrs. Sally E. Deenihan
Principal
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When I went to Rita she was a secretary now she runs the joint??
Yeah, too bad we are not allowed full access to the Ag School. If the neighborhood was allowed to use the school and not fight with outsiders (Yes I went there). I guess we the tax payers have to support those who pay less than us.
Sorry I am not understanding the persons comment about the Ag. school. "We are not allowed full access to the school." Does that mean that adults do not have access to the school, or students from the neighborhood not being accepted to the school? Last year every student from Cassell that applied was accepted. I don't know about Mt. Greenwood school or St. Christina's. Who is fighting outsiders and about what? I also don't understand the comment about supporting those that pay less than us? For what? If you have applied to the school and have been rejected then I can see your being upset, but don't complain if you haven't even applied.
Bob Uecker Millwakee Brewer announcer:
The average age in Sun City, Arizona is deceased.
John Lowenstein former White Sox player:
The secret to keeping winning streaks going is to maximize the victories while at the same time minimizing the defeats.
Former Yankee great and Aflac insurance spokesman:
Yogi Berra, asked if he wanted his pizza cut into four or six pieces:
You better make it fours. I don't think I could eat six pieces.
Yogi Berra, asked his cap size:
I don't know. I'm not in shape yet.
Yogi Berra, explaining why the sun makes Yankee Stadium's left field difficult to play:
It gets late early out here.
25 Days to Opening Day !!!!
Let us all say a prayer for Captain Kevin Gray of the Chicago Fire Dept. He was killed last Monday in a car accident on his way home from his duty station at O'Hare Airport. He was one hell of a fireman and great friend and mentor to many firefighters. There is a fund set up for his childrens education, details are in the Sun-Times Obits. May we all give a little bit for a fellow neighbor. May God have mercy on his soul...
has anyone heard anything about houses in mt. greenwood going section 8? my brother who lives
in beverly told me he heard this through the grapevine...
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Baseball guy I think your posts are awesome and please keep it up. I think it's awesome that you keep us focused on opening day for White Sox Baseball our true southside team and pass along some interesting baseball artifacts as well. The only thing that bothers me is the poll currently shows a surge of 27 northside baseball fans in 60655. But like the Southside Irish that make everyone Irish for a day we will make that baseball fans for a minute - just kidding! Go Sox!
1960 - The White Sox unveil new road uniforms with the players' names above the number on the back, another innovation by Bill Veeck.
Steve Rosenbloom, Chicago Tribune, describing White Sox returning from Toronto:
As the Sox pass through the U.S. customs, the agent will ask if you have anything valuable to declare and the middle relievers can walk right through.
24 Days to Opening Day !!!!
Mrs. Sally E. Deenihan
Principal
773-925-6600 | Ext. 6615
this is the principal at rita askwhy this animal is still there
Accecpting boys, graduating sex-offenders...
I have a friend who work's for the Philadelphia Police Department Officer Bob Clark ... He is currently deployed in Iraq with his reserve unit. He forwarded me this link and I think we all here in Chicago should vote for this officer. Many may be aware or may not be aware that the Philadelphia Police Department has I believe lost six officers in the line of duty over the last two years. Officer Rick Bowes story is one that many of us here in Chicago can sympathize with. So please take the time to vote for this officer so that he may receive the recognition he deserves for the courage he showed that day. Thank You ...
Lee Bielecki
008th District
Please vote for Philadelphia Police Officer Rick Bowes at Americas Most-Wanted web site to be an AMW All-Star.
Here is the voting link with his story:
http://www.amw.com/allstar/2009/nominee_detail.cfm?id=7056
8 year-old Jewish boy, quoted in "The Children's God", (Psychology Today Dec. 1985)
I don't know if this is what you're asking. But I feel closest to God, like after I'm rounding second base after I hit a double.
James Thurber
Roger Angell
I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.
Jimmy Cannon:
It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet. It is purer than any dance because the actions of the players are not governed by music or crowded into a formula by a director. The movement is natural and unrehearsed and controlled only by the unexpected flight of the ball.
23 Days to Opening Day !!!!
Adult level Baseball in Ireland began to formally take shape in 1995. Visiting coaches from Major League Baseball International (MLBI) provided the much needed instruction to adult players, most of who had only played recreational softball but wished a greater competitive and athletic challenge.
In 1996, with the assistance of MLBI coaches, Ireland played in its first international competition, the European Championships held in Hull, England. This international experience generated a great deal of interest in Baseball and has ultimately resulted in a ten team Adult League being formed with seven teams in Dublin, two in Belfast and one in Greystones, Co. Wicklow.
In honor of The South Side Irish Parade ...
On the international scene in 1998, the Irish National Baseball Team made the quarterfinal stage in the 1998 European Championships held in Austria and finished eighth in the sixteen team tournament. The significance of this accomplishment is only fully appreciated when one considers that Ireland was the smallest of all the competing nations with many of the other federations claiming thousands of members.
Ireland’s National team hosted the Connie Mack League state champions, the Slocum Baseball Club, from Rhode Island in the United States in 1999. The four game series was a great success for all involved and has now developed into a bi-annual event in which Ireland travelled to America in August of 2001. For more details on how the Irish team fared, click here. And just when you thought it was safe to go back on the diamond, the boys from Slocum came back to Dublin in July, 2003 for a week of serious baseball and craic.
Ireland also competed at international level competition when they played in the 2000 European B-Pool Championships held in Croatia and finished in fourth place at the 2002 European B-Pool Championships held in Stockholm, Sweden.
Most recently, the Irish National Team won a Bronze medal in the European B-Pool Championships held in August, 2004 in Regensburg, Germany and a Silver Medal at the 2006 European B-Pool Championships held in Antwerp, Belgium.
22 Days to Opening Day !!!!
New post idea. The Salvation Army building on 114th & Central Park will be up for sale very soon possibly within the next 4 months. This information needs to reach every single household in Mt. Greenwood. What would they like to see done with this building? I URGE every resident to contact the ward office insisting that everyone in Mt. Greenwood know what will happen with this building BEFORE it is sold. If everyone calls the alderman's office will need to hold a town hall meeting so we can have a better understanding before it is sold. I hope this gets posted!
Because of your ignorance, this will be my last time on your blog. It was a wonderful idea, but to allow this baseball freak to hijack your blog at the expense of the concerned neighbors from Mt. Greenwood, I will stick to the south town, and the local policeand fire blogs....
Sorry to see you go.
I don't know what you mean by "at the expense of the concerned neighbors" though. By putting up the fun baseball comments, it did not take away from the "real" news.
The baseball facts are to lighten up the blog and some people (obvious not you) have said that they do enjoy it.
Sorry inandaround60655 for causing people to leave the blog ... One the season starts I will be done anyway ... The main reason I put the baseball facts and have the countdown is primarily because its get people thinking about the warmer weather, good times at the ballpark, whether it be Sox Park, Wrigley Field, or just your plain old neighborhood little league. To me there is nothing like the smells of Sox Park on Opening Day ... The aroma of the brats and hot dogs cooking, the smell of the onions, The taste of the beer, (somehow beer always tastes better at the ballpark) no matter the cost we gladly force the money into the vendors hand. The look on the kids faces when they know they are missing school for a memory that will never be forgotten. I remember the very first time I took my son to the opener. He was seven years old in the second grade at St. Christina. I did not tell him we were going to the ballgame. It was a 3 o'clock game. I showed up at school office at about 11 and told the principal and the secretary the plan. He was called to the office and when he arrived he looked at me said "What's wrong Dad?" I told him that is was too nice a day for school and that I took off work (A day much like today, when the sun is so bright it hurts your eyes). I said "Do you want to stay in school or go to the White Sox Opener?" No need to tell you the reply. How much money or value can you put on a smile that big. I do not the answer to that question. But it is a tradition we have repeated every year since. He is now 14 and about to enter High School, which I know is going to be a little more serious than grade school. He may make a sports team and the coach may not go along with tradition. But hopefully we will be able to carry on. And someday, when he has his own son, he'll show up in school on Opening Day and ....
Anonymous said...
Don't let the door hit you in the arse "Anonymous"!
AS FOR MY BRUSH WITH HISTORY, YEARS BACK WHILE WORKING THE WAGON IN 008 WE GOT A CALL OF TEENS DRINKING IN MARQUETT PARK, WE ROLLED OVER AND ABOUT 15 KIDS WERE HAVING A BALL NOT NOISY OR DISRESPECTFUL JUST BEING TEENS, ALL WERE CATHOLIC HS KIDS; SO WE WENT BY BOOK PUT THEM IN WAGON TOOK NAMES ETC, AND DROVE THEM OVER TO PULASKI AND LET THEM GO WITHOUT THE BEER, ONE NAME THAT STUCK OUT WAS JOHN C. REILLY IN LATER YEARS AND HE WAS ABOUT THE NICEST KID IN THE GROUP.
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