When the Red Sox open a three-game set against the Cubs today, it will represent Boston's first-ever visit to Chicago's hallowed Wrigley Field.

The 1918 World Series, won by the Sox, 4-2, was actually played at the White Sox' Comiskey Park. While the long-held belief was that it was used to draw larger crowds, that was, in part, untrue. The reason, wrote Burt Whitman of the Boston Herald and Journal, was that Comiskey's right field barrier was "almost as far from home plate as is the right field bleachers at Fenway Park," as opposed to the Wrigley bandbox - then called Weeghman Park - on the north side of town.