Expert: Tom Schott - 2/5/2011

Question
I've read that Marshall Field's held a company picnic at the Monon Park in Cedar Lake, Indiana in 1907.  An exhibition game was played there between the White Sox and the Cubs.   7,000 people in attendance.
 Some additional info which may be helpful:    
Cedar Lake is in Northwest Indiana, about an hour southeast of Chicago, with weather similar to Chicago.  So the game would have been during either spring, summer, or fall.   
Transportation may have been by Monon train. There were stations in Chicago that ran to a depot at the Monon Park.
And what makes this most likely:  John G. Shedd was vice-president of Marshall Field's at that time.  John Shedd also owned the Consumer's Ice Industry on Cedar Lake, so he was familiar with this area.
 I'm trying to confirm this game was actually played.   Your help would be greatly appreciated.  Any additional information like players names, scores, etc. would be great, too.

Answer
Carol,

So sorry. I thought I had answered this days ago. In fact, I had typed up the response but some gremlin or other kept it from getting off to you properly. So again:

 As far as I can tell the White Sox and Cubs played no exhibition game in 1907. The two teams did play a regular exhibition game series (best 4 of 7) at the end of the regular season which they dubbed the "City Series." Unless, that is, one or other of the teams was in the World Series. Both clubs were in the 1906 series and the Cubs were in 1907 and 1908. There is a fairly reliable article about this in Wikipedia.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sox_-_Cubs_rivalry#City_Series_games