Frank Leroy Chance, "The Peerless Leader," player-manager of the Chicago Cubs (1905-12) and manager of the Los Angeles Angels (1916-17), built the Frank L. Chance Building in Glendora (20 miles east of Pasadena) on the NE corner of Glendora Ave. and Foothill Blvd. (then Michigan and Minnehaha Avenues) in 1912. Chance and teammates Joe Tinker and Johnny Evers, immortalized in a bit of doggerel by Franklin P. Adams, were all inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946.
c. 1912; note The Cub Grocery on the left and Cub Pharmacy on the right:
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c. 1913:
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Chance died September 15, 1924, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles; below is part of the LA Times article on his death the next day. The St. Maxon referred to in the article was at 653 S. Burlington, on the SW corner of Wilshire, where there is now a school.
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But the Frank L. Chance Building is still standing:
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