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St. Paul had been a middle-of-the-pack team under Comiskey, and it was beginning to see its attendance numbers slip. Comiskey wanted to come home to Chicago; Johnson helped him get there. Over drinks, Johnson talked about the matter with Cubs owner James Hart, who was not at all interested in sharing his city with another ball club, least of all a team - minor league or not - operated by a well-known and popular hometown boy like Comiskey. But Johnson kept pouring and kept talking. Comiskey could open a ball field down by the stockyards, Johnson told Hart, far away from the Cubs West Side Park and the city's Gold Coast fans. Hart agreed to that. He also agreed to let Comiskey call the new team the White Sox, a new-century version of the historic name of Cap Anson's White Stockings, the National League predecessors of Hart's Cubs. The one concession Hart won from Johnson was that Comiskey would not use "Chicago" as part of the team name. Johnson and Comiskey agreed, knowing that whatever the official name of the franchise, Hart could not stop newspapers from identifying it by its home city.

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Charles Fountain "The Betrayal: How the 1919 Black Sox Scandal Changed Baseball" (2016)

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