Pitches on the Prairie Ep 2 - Lawndale Baseball Park

Pitches on the Prairie Ep 2 - Lawndale Baseball Park

Lawndale Ball Park

The next installment of Soccer History Lives Here’s #pitchesontheprairie project is now available!

Our first site was Hanson Park, a well known soccer ground, which had international stars such as Pele play there. This 2nd soccer ground is a bit more obscure, but also worth recognizing: Lawndale Ball Park at the corner of Ogden and Pulaski in Chicago’s North Lawndale community.

Narration video filmed in North Lawndale on 3 August 2026

Shirt:  “All We Have is Each Other, Mutual Aid” from PM Press.

Inserts:

Historic photos of intersection, public use

Sanborn Map, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Sanborn Map Company, Vol. B, 1909. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn01790_069/  

Plat of Lawndale, Chicago Public Library, Real Estate Ad

White Rocks Park clipping, 2 July 1905 Chicago Inter-Ocean, p. 12

Campbell Rovers team photo, 15 December 1907 Chicago Tribune p. 27

Hibernian team photo, 18 April 1909, Chicago Inter-Ocean, p. 26

McDuffs team photo, Spalding Guide Soccer Football 1911-12

Peter Peel photo with trophy, Dick Vidano Collection at Carbon Hill Museum, Carbon Hill, IL

Ted Booth clipping, 18 November 1912 Joliet Evening Herald p. 1

Lawndale Baseball Player, Colorized by @almostinform from Chicago History Museum

Soccer History Lives Here Logo element: Bricklayers, representing an historic Chicago soccer site