Up on the roof in Chicago

Greg Luzinski batting at Chicago’s Comiskey Park

Today marks the 43rd anniversary of Greg Luzinski becoming the first player with three career homers to land atop the roof at Chicago’s old Comiskey Park.

Luzinski's prodigious drive off Boston’s Oil Can Boyd in the bottom of the first inning follows a solo homer by future Hall of Famer Harold Baines and gives the White Sox a 2-0 lead in a game they eventually win 6-2 before a Sunday afternoon crowd of 33,419 on the South Side.

The only other players previously to twice deposit pitches onto Comiskey’s roof are Hall of Famers Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams.

Luzinski, the onetime All-Star left fielder with the Philadelphia Phillies and later a designated hitter for the White Sox, hits 307 homers during a 15-year career that ends after the 1984 season.

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