West Side Park

West Side Park
	Cap Anson throws out the first ball of 1908.
Location	Chicago
Coordinates	41°52′13″N 87°40′21″W / 41.87028°N 87.67250°W
Owner	Chicago Cubs
Capacity	16,000
Construction
Broke ground	1885
Opened	June 6, 1885
Closed	After 1915
Demolished	1920
Tenants
	Chicago Cubs (MLB) (1885–1891, 1894–1915); Chicago Maroons (minor league) (1888)

West Side Park was the name used for two different ballparks that formerly stood in Chicago, Illinois. They were both home fields of the team now known as the Chicago Cubs of the National League. Both ballparks hosted baseball championships. The latter of the two parks, where the franchise played for nearly a quarter century, was the home of the first two world champion Cubs teams (1907 and 1908), the team that posted the best winning percentage in Major League Baseball history and won the most games in National League history (1906), the only cross-town World Series in Chicago (1906), and the immortalized Tinker to Evers to Chance double-play combo. Both ballparks were primarily constructed of wood.^[1]

^ O'Connell, Patrick M. (October 4, 2017). "Cubs Last Won Back-to-Back World Series Titles at Mostly Forgotten West Side Grounds, Now UIC". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 4, 2017.

[1] O'Connell, Patrick M. (October 4, 2017). "Cubs Last Won Back-to-Back World Series Titles at Mostly Forgotten West Side Grounds, Now UIC". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 4, 2017.

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