The three-bedroom, 1,820-square-foot Wheaton town home that former Major League Baseball player, former Chicago White Sox broadcaster and former Chicago Cubs minor league coach Jimmy Piersall owned until his death in 2017 has been listed for $345,000.
Piersall, who died at age 87 in 2017, played for 17 years in the major leagues — though not for either Chicago team — and retired in 1967. For the final 40 years of his life, Piersall was a familiar figure in Chicago, including as a TV broadcaster for White Sox games for four years with Harry Caray in the late 1970s and early ‘80s and then remaining as a pregame and postgame analyst for two more years. Piersall later was a baseball analyst for WSCR-AM and WMVP-AM and also was a minor league coach for the Cubs for 14 seasons.
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Piersall had owned the eight-room Wheaton town home with his third wife, Jan, whom he married at an Oak Brook restaurant in October 1982. Records show that in August 1978, she paid $91,500 to buy the town home from its builder.
Located in the Wheaton Oaks development, the two-story town home has three bathrooms, a vaulted living room with a fireplace, a dining room with crown moldings, and a kitchen with white cabinetry, under-cabinet lighting, white appliances, a tile backsplash and a walk-in pantry. Other features include a second-floor loft with a fireplace, a partially finished basement, a new roof, a new furnace and a primary bedroom suite with a walk-in closet and a remodeled bathroom.
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Listing agent Joanne Spagnola of Baird & Warner Fox Valley told Elite Street that the town home is located “in a gem of a neighborhood.”
“The neighborhood (is) complete with a swimming pool and a clubhouse, and residents walking their dogs or having joyful conversations with one another,” she said in a text message. “(This town home) is beautifully designed…with a private courtyard, desired floor plan, spacious kitchen plus (a partially) finished basement.”
The town home is just two blocks from the place where Piersall and his wife met. The couple first ran into one another at a women’s racquetball demonstration at the nearby Wheaton Sport Center in 1979, Jan Piersall told the Tribune in 1992.
Jan Piersall died after her husband, and her children from a previous marriage first listed the town home in early June for $350,000. They cut the asking price to $345,000 on June 27.
The town home had a $4,918 property tax bill in the 2021 tax year. Owners also must pay $400 a month in homeowners association dues.
Goldsborough is a freelance writer.
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