Post-season exhibition games, Part 9: Barnstorming and war By JohnW53 on Jan 18, 2021, 4:41am CST + .......... In some years between 1901 and 1913, after concluding their National League schedule, the Cubs played more than a dozen more games in October, not counting the World Series or City Series. In 1914, they played none. Maybe it was because there had been a surfeit of Major League baseball in Chicago that year. The Cubs played on the west side, the White Sox on the south side and the city's team in the new Federal League played on the north side, in their splendid new ballpark bounded by Addison and Clark streets, and by Sheffield and Waveland avenues.