Today in Chicago History: White Sox players and fans say goodbye to baseball at old Comiskey Park

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 30, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)

High temperature: 92 degrees (1971)
Low temperature: 29 degrees (1984)
Precipitation: 1.27 inches (1896)
Snowfall: Trace (2006)

Chicago Cubs outfield Jim Mosolf, from left, Floyd 'Babe' Herman and Joseph 'Frank' Demaree, circa 1933. (Chicago Tribune historical photo) — Chicago Cubs outfield Jim Mosolf, from left, Floyd “Babe” Herman and Joseph “Frank” Demaree, circa 1933. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)

1933: Floyd “Babe” Herman hit for the cycle twice during the 1931 season — two months apart — when he was with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Two seasons later, as a Cub, he managed his third. Facing Cardinals pitcher Dizzy Dean on Ladies Day in St. Louis, Herman hit a triple in the first inning. He hit his 13th home run of the season in the sixth inning, then added a double and a single in the ninth.

The Cubs won 12-2 and clinched third place in the National League.

Dorothy and Richard Ogilvie appear on Election Day, Nov. 5, 1968 and celebrate Richard's Illinois gubernatorial victory at the Bismarck Hotel. (Walter Neal/Chicago Tribune) — Dorothy and Richard Ogilvie appear at the Bismarck Hotel on Election Day, Nov. 5, 1968, and celebrate his victory in the election for governor of Illinois. (Walter Neal/Chicago Tribune)

1964: Five weeks before Election Day, Republican Cook County Sheriff and future Illinois Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie said there may be as many as 150,000 “ghost voters” on Chicago election rolls and called for 1,000 volunteers to make an independent canvass.

White Sox catcher Carlton Fisk reaches up on his tiptoes to shake the outstretched hands of fans in the left field bleachers at Comiskey Park after the game against Seattle on Sept. 30, 1990. It was the last game played at the old Comiskey Park. (Frank Hanes/Chicago Tribune)

1990: On the final day at old Comiskey Park, a crowd of 42,849 fans turned out on a glorious, sunny autumn afternoon to say farewell to what had been proclaimed the “the Baseball Palace of the World” when it opened July 1, 1910. Many fans were teary-eyed, realizing that the place where they had spent so many happy times would soon be turned into a parking lot for the new Comiskey Park (now called Rate Field), which was rising just to the south at 35th Street and Shields Avenue.

“Years from now,” the Chicago White Sox ads had said all season, “you’ll say you were there.”

WGN's Linda Kollmeyer releases the balls for the Pick4 game, for one last time, at WGN studios, at 2501 W. Bradley Pl., Chicago, on Sept. 30, 2015. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune) — WGN’s Linda Kollmeyer releases the balls for the Pick4 game one last time at WGN studios in Chicago on Sept. 30, 2015. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune)

2015: Linda Kollmeyer hosted the last televised Illinois Lottery drawing. The next day, the lottery went to an online digital draw system.

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