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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
1923In a competition in Comiskey Park, White Sox Pitcher Hollis “Sloppy” Thurston Threw an impeccable collection of relief (the side of only nine pitches) versus the Philadelphia Athletics. Thurston’s spotless inning came in the 12th and mowing Frank “Beauty” McGowan, Clarence “Chick” Galloway and Sam Hale. Thurston only became the fifth pitcher in MLB history […]
1901While the most wonderful team that introduced the big competitions this year, the White Sox still couldn’t prevent a big controversy before the summer was out. Two SOX players were suspended after attacking referee Jack Haskell in the fourth inning of an 8-0 loss in Washington. When the third Honkman Bill Coughlin Senators took a […]
1962The last part of the Billy Pierce–Eddie Fisher Trade (with six total players) was mentioned, as San Francisco Werper sent Verle Tiefenthaler To the white Sox. Tiefenthaler threw in just three games for the White Sox, made his Major League debut on August 19 and was turned upside down for two earned in two-thirds of […]