The Guaranteed Flower Field is a baseball park located in Chicago, Illinois, which serves as a rough house for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball. The facility is owned by the state of Illinois through the Illinois Sports Authority Authority, and is operated by the White Sox. The park opened for the 1991 season, after the White Sox spent 81 years in the original Comiskey Park. It also opened under the name Comiskey Park but renamed to US. Mobile Fields in 2003 after the U.S. Cellular purchased naming rights of $ 68 million over 20 years. The current name was announced on October 31, 2016, after the Guaranteed Rate, a private residential mortgage company located in Chicago, bought the naming rights to the baseball stadium in a 13-year deal.
The stadium is located just west of Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago's Armor Square, adjacent to the more famous Bridgeport neighborhood. Built just across 35th Street from Old Comiskey Park, it was destroyed to make room for the parking lot that serves the place. The Old Comiskey home plate location is represented by a marble plaque on the sidewalk beside the Guaranteed Rate Field and the dirty lines painted in the parking lot. Also, the street of the audience along 35th Street is designed in such a way (partially curved, partially straight but pointing east-northeast) which echoes the contours of the first tier of the pasis.
The park finished at a cost of US $ 137 million. The current public address announcer is Gene Honda, who also serves as a PA broadcaster for the Chicago Blackhawks, the NCAA Final Four, and the University of Illinois Football.
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Histori
The stadium is the first major new sports facility built in Chicago since Chicago Stadium in 1929. The stadium is also the last built before a new "retro-classical" ballpark wave in the 1990s and 2000s. However, some of the design features of the old Comiskey Park are maintained. The front facade of the garden has a curved window. The most famous is the "exploding scoreboard" which paid homage to the original posted by Bill Veeck in the old park in 1960. The original field dimensions and seating configuration are very similar to the Royals Stadium (now Kauffman Stadium) in Kansas City-- which is a park the last baseball built in the majors, in 1973.
As originally built, the park was criticized by many fans due to the height of the upper deck. The original architect, HOK Sport (now Populous), wants to eliminate the problems that exist in many stadiums built since the 1970s. With this in mind, the upper deck is reassembled on the lower deck, and stands up gradually. While it gives almost every seat on the top level of unobstructed view of the field, it also creates one of the highest top decks in baseball. The first row of seats on the upper deck at the new stadium is away from the field as the highest row of seats on the upper deck at the old stadium. Due to the practical field on the road surface, the original upper deck makes the park look like a cake stadium from the outside. Fans who sit in this area do not get much chance of getting help, as this is one of the few parks in Major League Baseball that does not allow fans to sit on the upper deck to venture elsewhere in the park, for example the lower deck concourse.
In response to fan complaints, the stadium has undergone many renovations since the 2001 season for retrofit facilities for current architectural trends. These changes have included constructing a multi-tier concourse off the center field, adjusting the fence to make outfield less symmetrical and, most significantly, the removal of 6,600 seats at the top of the upper deck.
The top story of the park now has a white and black screen behind the top row of seats and above it by a flat canopy roof supported by a black steel frame support blocking the view of some seats. The original blue chair was also replaced by a green forest chair. New green and black color schemes, top-level screens that are retrofitted from outside walls and canopy roofs are reminiscent of old Comiskey Park, as well as other classic baseball stadiums. The White Sox also adds a mural to the interior concourse, a prominent feature of the old stadium.
Renovation add is not part of the original plan.
2008 season
- The Illinois Sports Authority Authority unveiled the first eco-friendly permeable paving parking to be used by the Major League sports facility on April 8. The new Lot (Lot L) saves taxpayer money by substantially reducing the amount of water entering Chicago's stormwater system, improving overall water quality and helping to reduce the effects of the Urban heat island.
- The White Sox Legacy Brick Program launches a brick plaza outside Gate 4 on April 11th. Each Legacy Brick is inscribed with a personalized message and has become part of a new baseball diamond square just outside the main entrance to the baseball stadium. White and granite bronze statues weighing over 25 tons celebrating the 2005 White Sox World Series Championship stand in the center of the square, with a historical timeline of the franchise along the diamond line. Players on the sculpture of the 2005 team are Paul Konerko, Joe Crede, Orlando HernÃÆ'¡ndez, Geoff Blum and Juan Uribe.
- Plasma flat screen plasma sets are added throughout the outfield area and at the top of the beer concession stands.
- A bronze statue the size of Harold Baines mounted on July 20th to the right of the field behind Section 105.
season 2009
- Approximately $ 15 million under renovation is done to Gate 5 (north 35th Street) to improve access to the park. The demolition (early November 2008) from the easternmost part of the pedestrian street and the top two-story disappearance of the eastern foot bridge along 35th Street, reduces to one level with continuous access to the park at the main concourse level. The second foot bridge at Gate 5, about 75 meters (69 m) to the west of the east bridge, continues to offer access to the park on three levels. The project also includes the installation of an escalator in a new weather-protected enclosure and an elevator installation that will provide additional access for disabled enthusiasts. The project was completed on the Opening Day on April 7th when the White Sox defeated the Kansas City Royals 4-2.
- Inside the park, the new scoreboard (23Ã, ft x 68Ã, ft) with 913,000 LED lights (similar to Tropicana Field) replaces the scoreboard outside the older city on the right field. In addition to displaying both formations (those of the Sox and their opponents) the board shows season statistics for the current dough and pitcher. It also serves as an upgrade to the old "around the league" replacement board. While the old scoreboard only shows the current pitcher numbers, scores, and pitcher numbers, the new board is able to show ball, strike, counter-attack, the locations of each baseline, and current and pitcher dough with the last name instead of by number. A slight disadvantage is that the new board only shows four matches at a time this way, while the old council shows every game going on simultaneously.
- A small plaque honoring Jim Thome located amid the fan deck for a 464-foot home kick that landed there, becoming the first player to do so on June 4, 2008. The White Sox beat the Royals in the game. They duplicated this feat again on September 30, 2008 in a one game playoff against rivals AL Central, Minnesota Twins. His home run proved to be the winner of the game in a 1-0 shutout to win the AL Central.
- For White Sox players, a new hydrotherapy room with three hot and cold whirlpool tubs. An underwater treadmill, which can curb problems related to abdominal muscles, back and knees, and strengthen muscles and hips, installed in one of the tubs. The Catch is written on the center-left wall of the image above Billy Pierce (now on an empty wall), at the location where DeWayne Wise made a spectacular catch to rob Gabe Kapler from the 9th home run and preserve the game Mark Buehrle is perfect on July 23, 2009.
season 2010-present
Season 2010
- The new outdoor beer garden called "TBD's" was installed on July 26 (when the White Sox hosted the Seattle Mariners) at Gate 5. The area serves beer, wine, soda, and water. TBD also has 12 flat-screen TVs. TBD was downgraded and replaced by "ChiSox Bar and Grill" in 2011. The restaurant is open from 11 am on the days when the Sox had a home game. While technically out of the park and accessible with or without match tickets, fans must be 21 or older to enter. Gold Coast Tickets Club opens behind home plate
- The number and picture of Frank Thomas was added to the outside wall of the office because the number had been retired.
Season 2011 A new Metra (Jones/Bronzeville) station on the $ 7.9 million Pulau Batu (designed by Infrastructure Engineering, Inc.) path is planned to open in 2009, but due to a year-long delay of station construction opened in 2011 after groundbreaking on June 29, 2009. The new station is located in the East of the rough just outside I-90/I-94 Dan Ryan Expressway.
Season 2012
- Chicago Sports Depot, a new convenience store located right next to Gate 5 and ChiSox Bar and Grill. Featuring White Sox, Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs, and other Chicago sports team merchandises. The store opened on November 19, 2011.
Season 2014
- The human-sized bronze statue of Paul Konerko was unveiled on September 27, against the Kansas City Royals. This is the 9th position in the outfield area.
Season 2016
- Three new HD video boards were installed before the start of the 2016 Season at a cost of $ 7.3 million. An additional board in the left and right plane, and the main video board in the center, all replaced with a new HD screen. The project is funded through the Sox capital improvement budget.
2018 seasons
- Clubhouse visitors renovated to meet the latest technology.
- A home-built virtual reality batting derby enclosure is installed at Chicago Sports Depot for fans.
- A 30-foot safety net has been extended to the end of the field out of either rest room, or from sections 122 to 142.
- The new LED ribbon has been extended to run the entire length of the stand, which means that the retired number living behind the home plate must be moved to the first and third baseline.
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Retired number
Note: The 1994 season is incomplete as Player Crash - There are three ties, the first in the 1995 season against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. The second tie occurred in the 1998 season against the Blue Jays at the time Comiskey Park. The third tie occurred in the 1999 season against the Twins at Comiskey Park.
Non-baseball event
Concert
Football
In movies and other media
US Cellular Field has appeared in films such as Rookie of the Year (1993), Major League II (1994), Little Big League (1994) ), Marriage My Companions (1997), and The Ladies Man (2000). In the Rookie of the Year stadium plays the role of Dodger Stadium and at the Little Big League stadium plays the role of all opponent ballparks except for Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park. Ads for PGA Tour, Nike, Reebok and the Boys & amp; Girls Clubs of America has been filmed in the park.
Note
- Nathaniel Whalen, "Seat marked for the Sox star", Post Tribune, March 30, 2007
See also
- Gene Honda - Public address announcer for the White Sox, DePaul Basketball, Chicago Blackhawks, and the Final Four Men's Final Four Basketball Final Championship.
- Roger Bossard - The head of the building guard for the White Sox. (1983-present)
- Nancy Faust - the old stadium organizer for the White Sox. (1970-2010)
- Southpaw - White Sox Mascot.
- Camelback Ranch - Spring training house of the White Sox along with Los Angeles Dodgers. (2009-present)
References
External links
- Stadium site at whitesox.com
- ISFAuthority.com
- Andrewclem.com
- Ballparksofbaseball.com
- Ballparks.com
- Aerial View of Guaranteed Levels
- Siting Chart Explained Rate Rates
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