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1949 The White Sox acquired starter Bill Bevens from the Yankees. The righthander struggled with control problems throughout his career, but had managed to rise from journeyman to star with a stellar 1946 season in the Bronx: 16-13, 2.23 ERA/3.14 FIP, 154 ERA+ and 5.0 WAR over 249 2/3 innings. But after a poor 1947 […]
1913Future White Sox owner Arthur Allyn was born in Chicago. By purchasing Bill Veeck‘s stake in the team in 1961, combined with buying out the founder Charles Comiskeyhis grandson, ChuckAllyn was the end point of all Comiskey involvement with the White Sox franchise. Allyn didn’t care much for baseball and bought the club mainly because […]
1923Although the team did not strive for the pennant, the White Sox made a late move that would have great consequences in the short and long term: Fielder Koopcentrum Maurice Archdeacon From the Double-A Rochester tribe in the International League, for the impressive sum of $ 50,000. The Speedster hit him .357 for the tribe […]
1906The SOX defeated Washington 4-1, for their 19th consecutive victory, a franchise record that still stands. Roy Patterson took the victory. It eventually became (bound for) the longest American League -winning series of the 20th century. This was the streak that pushed the SOX into a position to take the Al -Wimpel and finally the […]
