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 […]
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 […]