This Date In Sox History 8-27

[Lip Man 1]

August 27, 1910 - Comiskey Park hosts the first night game ever played in a major league stadium as two Chicago amateur clubs play before 3,500 fans.

August 27, 1911 - ‘Big’ Ed Walsh fires a no hitter against the Red Sox at Comiskey Park. It’s the first time a Sox pitcher throws a no hitter in that stadium. The future Hall Of Famer would go on to become an umpire after he retires.

Lip

[FielderJones]

August 27, 1910 - Comiskey Park hosts the first night game ever played in a major league stadium as two Chicago amateur clubs play before 3,500 fans.

Any pictures of the lighting arrangement? That's pretty amazing given the electrical technology of the time.

[Lip Man 1]

Fielder:

Sorry I don't have any pictures. There were indications that lights were strung around the stadium but I don't have any clear information.

Lip

[viagracat]

I knew the first MLB night game was in 1935; this was 25 years before that. Wow.