RARE 1921 - 1933 Chicago Cubs vs White Sox City Series Ticket Stub Wrigley Field

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RARE Ticket Stub to the postseason City Championship Series Cubs vs White Sox

1921-1933 based on that was when William Veeck was the President of the Cubs and his name is listed on the stub. More research to the pricing and other details (trademark under Veeck's name) on the front can further narrow down the exact year.

Not 1919,1920,1927, 1929, 1932 as no series was played that year.

So had to be from 1921-1926 or 1928, 1930, 1931, or 1933.


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CITY CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (1903-1942)
The City Series represents the most competitive games ever played between the two teams. Held concurrent with the World Series, the (usual) best-of-seven series was Chicago’s own World Series, played for city bragging rights. Just as in the World Series, the players received part of the gate receipts, with 60% of the Players’ Pool going to the winner. The 1906 World Series games between the Cubs and White Sox are included.

To that end, the very first City Series in 1903 was marred by accusations of games thrown. Cubs pitcher Jack Taylor won his first City Series start, but lost the last three (the series finished in a 7-7 tie); subsequent accusations that he laid down for side money precipitated a trade to the St. Louis Cardinals. As a result, the Cubs refused to play the 1904 series.Cubs (Colts) President Hart in explanation of his team s refusal to play a 15th game said Tinker was to be married In Kansas City that afternoon and absolutely refused to postpone the wedding. Kling insisted on along with him, and Evers was to leave for home at 5:30 the day of the last game, so there was no chance of patching up a team without them.

NOTABLES
Only 3,142 freezing fans watched the Cubs’ Mordecai “Three-Finger” Brown pitch a one-hit gem in the final game of the 1909 series. The only hit was a solid single by Parent over second base in the fifth inning.
The Cubs won 92 games in 1911 while the south-siders were barely over .500. It was expected this series would be a blow-out. It was. But not as expected. The White Sox took all four games.

The White Sox won the 1912 City Series, 4-3, amid similar accusations, that the Cubs who were up 3-0 before losing four straight laid down in protest of unpopular manager Frank Chance.

In 1914, the White Sox won the City Series 4-3 after losing three of the first four games.
The 1924 City Series were the first games ever broadcast on local radio.

The opening game of the 1925 City Series was a 19-inning tie.

No series was played in 1927 because the Cubs did not issue a challenge (the team losing the previous series was expected to initiate a challenge the following year). On September 20, president Bill Veeck, Sr. issued an official statement:

The Cubs will not play a City Series this year. The season of 1927 contained so many splendid possibilities that anything other than a World Series would be an ill-fitting climax. Unless the miracle of miracles happens and the big series is played at Wrigley Field, the work of completing the second deck of the grandstand will start Oct. 3.

White Sox president, Charles Comiskey, responded;

The White Sox are satisfied that the City Series will not be played this year. As far as we are concerned, nothing is to be gained by the Sox defeating the Cubs in another City Series. It is up to the Cubs to challenge, that right being reserved for the defeated team in the last series and the Sox trimmed the Cubs in 1926.

The Cubs won the City Series in 1929 and 1930; the only time they ever managed back-to-back city titles.

In 1934, Cubs owner William Wrigley thought the Cubs were laying down in order to earn the higher receipts of City Series play, and refused to play the White Sox.

In the very next season (1936), the White Sox swept the Cubs in the City Series and so infuriated Wrigley that he cut some players salaries and ordered all of his Cubs players placed on the trading block.

The 1940 City Series was the third successive seven game series. The White Sox won all three.

The 1942 City Series was the eighth consecutive city title for the Southsiders and the last City Series.

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