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1946Two almost-teammates with the White Sox in the 1970s, Cy Acosta And Rich McKinneywere born. A native of Piqua, Ohio, McKinney was selected No. 14 overall by the White Sox in 1968 and made the Majors in 1970. He played third, short, second and right field in a brief two-season career on the South Side […]
1913The White Sox and New York Giants began their around-the-world tour, promoting baseball around the world. The two teams would eventually sail home from England on the Lusitania after playing more than 40 matches. 1951The White Sox sent a swingman Randy Gumpert and left fielder Don Lenhardt to Boston for pitcher Chuck Stobbs and second […]
1937Ed Arthur Walshson of White Sox legend Ed Walshdied of rheumatic fever after falling into a coma at his family home in Meriden, Conn. He was only 32 years old. Clearly, the younger Walsh would never escape the shadow of his father, a Hall-of-Famer and fifth all-time in White Sox WAR. However, Ed was a […]
1887Two small players for the White Sox who just missed who play together on the same South Side team were born on this day. Left outfielder Finners Quinlanwho played for the White Sox in 1915, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Further east in Indianapolis, 1911 short stop Roy Korhan arrived. Corhan had the better career, […]
1917The White Sox won their second World series title, beating the New York Giants four games against two. The score in the series clincher was also 4-2. Just two days after ending the win in Game 5 with two innings of relief, Red Faber pitched a complete game six-hitter to secure the crown. An unfortunate […]
1906The Pale Hose bid on a World series upset by a 1-0 defeat at home to the Cubsmaking the series even 2-2. Mordecai Brown exacted revenge for a one-point loss Nick Altrock in the Series opener, holding the White Sox to two hits and only two runners in scoring position. Altrock, for his part, was […]
1899The new American League was formed in Chicago. The city did not have a team in the league at the time, but soon acquired the St. Paul, Minnesota franchise along with its player/manager, Charles Comiskey. They settled on the South Side at the 39th Street Grounds, at 39th and Princeton. 1906By winning their second road […]
1905The White Sox lost the pennant on the penultimate day of the season when Werper Doc White Could not beat the lower nourishing St. Louis Brown. Wit and the SOX lost, 6-2, and handed the flag to the Philadelphia Athletics. The SOX would finish two games from the pace the season. That year they had […]
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 […]
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 […]
