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 […]
Blow a seven-run against a terrible team? Why not? From the start, the Washington Nationals made it a point to show why many experts now think that they are an even worse team than the White Sox. One at the first battle on the first at bat, a throw in the outfield on the next, […]
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 […]
1907In the opener of a Double Header Sweep that would pull the white SOx within 1 1⁄2 games of first place, Doc White Earned his 23rd victory of the season with a 2-0 shutout in St. Louis. White, however Brown First Honkman Tom Jones in the game, making an al-record streak of 65 1⁄3 innings […]
1937Mike Kreevich Bond the MLB record, with four Doubles in four straight batters, in a 9-1 victory in Detroit. The 4-from-6 day of the midfielder, with three points and an RBI, moved its stroke average to .318. Three of his four Doubles came from Tiger’s starting pitcher Tommy Bridges. In his second season as a […]
1915White Sox Werster Jim Scott shot a 5-0 shutout over the Philadelphia A’s … and he did it alone 68 minutes! It is the fastest game ever played in Team Annals. He allowed three hits and switched off six. Scott won 24 games that year. 1930 In one of the most brilliant starts in the […]
Multiple errors and a crumbling bull pen were not a party for the Yankees sluggers, and the White Sox attack became cold early. Davis Martin started to look great with two strikeouts, but walked Aaron Judge with two. That walk would come back to chase him while Cody Bellinger was at home and the Yankees […]
One of my biggest pets is when people refer to a new pitch like a “craze” or “craze”. It makes the field look like a stupid salon trick and it hides what really happened. A “craze” field is normally a kind of breakthrough in pitching mechanics. This is currently the case with the kick change. […]