 To build name recognition, it was determined that those baseball players with sufficient football skill would be featured on league rosters with the remaining slots filled by ex-college football players.The games would be played in the baseball parks such as Forbes Field, Comiskey Park, the Polo Grounds and Navin Field.The unnamed agent pitched the idea to Frank Navin, the owner of Detroit Tigers, and Charles Comiskey, the owner of the Chicago White Sox.