1927Nellie Vos – the second-best second baseman, fourth-best hitter and 11th-best player in White Sox history by WAR (47.4) – was born in St. Thomas, Pennsylvania. While certainly more in line with the players of his era, Fox was an undersized 5’9″, who achieved his stardom with the grit that came to personify the Go-Go […]
1906Future white SOX star and Hall-of-Famer Eddie Collins made his MLB debut, against the White Sox – as Eddie Sullivan! Collins played Semipro Baseball while he still went to Yale University, so he played under the name ‘Sullivan’. But Connie Mack loved what he saw from the young Infielder and signed him up for his […]