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• Today in White Sox History: December 20

On this day 14 years ago, the White Sox not only signed a terrific reliever in Jesse Crain, they snatched him from the hated Twins. | Hannah Foslien/Getty Images Jesse Crain arrives in Chicago, eventually delivering one of the most uniquely-good bullpen seasons in team history 1938 Catcher Luke Sewell was sold to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Twice finishing in the Top 12 in MVP voting while with ...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: December 19

In better days, White Sox owner Grace Comiskey and children Dorothy and Chuck (left- and right-center) confer with club manager Ted Lyons. | Chicago Tribune Comiskey family squabbling breaks out into the open 1914 Charles Comiskey paid to keep a star opposing pitcher in the American League? Indeed, the White Sox owner, in fear of Walter Johnson jumping from the AL’s Washington Senators to ...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: December 18

On this day 94 years ago, a Moose was born. | Diamond Images/Getty Images A South Side baseball star is born 1930 Bill “Moose” Skowron, prep legend and eventual White Sox player and fixture, was born in Chicago. After winning a batting title and serving as punter, placekicker and halfback for the Purdue Boilermakers, Skowron signed with the Yankees. He was a nine-year standout in New York ...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: December 17

Red Faber got an early Christmas gift from the American League on this day, 104 years ago. A future Hall-of-Famer is cleared to continue throwing an illegal pitch! 1914 Clarence “Pants” Rowland was named White Sox manager, replacing Jimmy Callahan after a 70-84-3, sixth-place season in 1914. Rowland, who got his nickname from wearing oversized pants during his minor-league playing days, h...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 16

Adolfo Phillips | Malcolm Emmons-Imagn Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Adolfo Phillips* and others, and more. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to foll...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: December 15

This photo pretty well sums up the Yonder Alonso era, which began for the White Sox on this day, six years ago. | Tom Pennington/Getty Images Ugh, a reminder of the Manny Machado courting 1960 White Sox owner Bill Veeck made up for some of his bad deals after the 1959 season by pilfering pitchers Juan Pizarro and Cal McLish from the Reds for infielder Gene Freese. Manager Al Lopez and pitc...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: December 13

More than 10 years after his major league debut, Bill Robinson won a World Series with the Pirates in 1979. On this day 53 years ago, the White Sox helped him along on that journey. A mostly-brutal day of transactions 1969 The White Sox dealt their star lefthander Gary Peters and catcher Don Pavletich to the Red Sox for Syd O’Brien and Billy Farmer. (Farmer retired instead of reporting, so...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: December 11

On this day 15 years ago, J.J. Putz signed a prove-it deal with the White Sox, in hopes of getting a closer role again in the future. J.J. Putz arrives to make the back of the South Side pen airtight 1924 White Sox superstar second sacker Eddie Collins, who had led the club to a 14-13 record as player-manager to finish out an awful 1923 season, was named the permanent player-manager of the...2024
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1938

Dizzy Dean | Photo by Pictorial Parade/Getty Images Not many deals, but a couple were significant. As it turned out, 1938 was a watershed year for the Chicago Cubs, though no one would have known it at the time. Coming into the season, the Cubs had posted 12 consecutive winning seasons and won three pennants in that time (and probably could have also won in 1930 and 1937, years where they ...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 9

Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Russ Meyer arrives when Don Elston heads west, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to follow as they unfold over t...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: December 6

In a peculiar move, on this day 13 years ago the White Sox sent closer Sergio Santos north to Toronto — just two months after inking him to a three-year extension! | Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images The South Siders send a closer packing north 1959 In an effort to ensure the White Sox would repeat as American League champs, Bill Veeck and Hank Greenberg decided to make a series of moves to br...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: December 5

On this day 50 years ago, the White Sox made a minor steal of a deal with the Yankees, for this guy. The South Siders stick a minor steal of a deal on the Bombers 1974 It was a minor trade, but one the White Sox undoubtedly won, sending shortstop Eddie Leon to the Yankees for reliever Cecil Upshaw. Upshaw pitched on the South Side for just one season, but he filled a solid late role for th...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: November 26

On this day 17 years ago, former White Sox infielder Jerry Royster made history ... in Korea. Jerry Royster breaks new ground ... in Korea 1976 It was a move that would pay large returns the following season. On this day, injured third baseman Eric Soderholm signed a free agent deal with the White Sox. Soderholm would become Comeback Player of the Year for 1977, with 25 home runs, 67 RBIs...2024
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• A look back on Harry Simpson

Have Suitcase, will travel I don’t think there’s much debate that baseball players today are better than they were 50 or 100 years ago. For one thing, MLB is now integrated. It’s truly an international sport. The second thing is players at nearly all levels now play and work out year-round. With AAU and traveling teams, pre-teen ballplayers probably play more games in a summer than I played in the...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 7
Tom Browning had a good day | Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Tom Browning had a very good day on a day full of legends. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore...2023
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• Today in White Sox History: April 9
Beauty and abomination: At least on the field, things were pretty for the final home opener at Comiskey Park, 33 years ago today. | Jonathan Daniel/Allsport/Getty Images Big hits from Bill Veeck, Pete Ward, Jim Spencer, Oscar Gamble and Bo Jackson 1963 The start of the season finds the White Sox in Detroit, and it is a highlight game for third baseman Pete Ward. Ward smacks a seventh-inni...2023
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• Cubs' Sterling Young Core Showing All Kinds of Roads Travel to Wrigley Field
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"As always, it was a Bill Veeck idea."

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"1946 - Bill Veeck buys MLB’s Cleveland Indians for $2."

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"Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter a bit more about whether Dottie dropped the ball on purpose in the movie version of A League of Their Own, then discuss an Angels defensive meltdown, a vomiting Oakland Athletic, a Javier Báez bad-ball batted ball, Tony La Russa (and Bill Veeck) taking suggestions from the stands, the […]"

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"The son of former Indians owner Bill Veeck is glad to see the "Chief Wahoo" logo, implemented by his father in 1947, will be eliminated from uniforms after this season."

2016
"In 1947, Bill Veeck and Horace Stoneham created the Cactus League when they moved their teams, the Indians and Giants, out of Florida and into the desert Arizona with Cleveland playing in Tucson and New York playing in Phoenix."

2015
"Nowhere is this more true than at the corner of Clark and Addison in Chicago, where the sun always shines over Wrigley Field and construction to build a winner has been ongoing since before the days of Bill Veeck and Harry Caray."

2014
"Maybe it shouldn't have been so surprising that the Winter Meetings were the wildest we've seen since Bill Veeck set up his famous table in the hotel lobby in 1975, trading 22 players in three days."

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• Today in White Sox History: December 10

Future Hall-of-Famer Al Simmons was sold to Detroit on this day, 89 years ago. The South Siders sell off a future Hall-of-Famer 1935 The White Sox sold left fielder Al Simmons to the Detroit Tigers for $75,000 (about $1.7 million in today’s dollars). Chicago had in fact purchased Simmons from Philadelphia along with Mule Haas and Jimmy Dykes three years earlier, in a $100,000 purchase, mak...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: November 2

On this day 24 years ago, Wrigley Field was granted landmark status — which should have been asked and granted for Comiskey Park years earlier. The North Side gets a gift that should have been shared on both sides of town 1946 Beloved White Sox broadcaster and member of the 1983 White Sox division champs Tom Paciorek was born in Detroit. Paciorek was a two-sport star at the University of H...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: November 1

Legendary pitching coach Dave Duncan first gained prominence in the role with the White Sox, not the A’s or Cardinals. | Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images A legendary pitching coach gets his start in Chicago 1946 Future White Sox owner (and current Cleveland owner) Bill Veeck has his right foot amputated. Veeck had suffered a grievous injury to his leg while serving in the South Pacif...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, November 1

Happy birthday, Jeremiah Estrada | Photo by John Cordes/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. 2016 Game 6 and other stories. Happy birthday, Jeremiah Estrada and others. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorfu...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: October 3

On this day 105 years ago, Dickey Kerr strapped the White Sox on his back and dragged them back into the World Series. | Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images Dickey Kerr shoulders the Black Sox burden and drags Chicago back into the Series 1906 The White Sox clinched the pennant while ... sitting in their hotel room in Cleveland! With the White Sox sitting at 91-56-3 and the trailing New Y...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: September 27

Frank Isbell put his stamp on the strangest doubleheader in White Sox history, on this day, 119 years ago. | Chicago History Museum/Getty Images The weirdest doubleheader in team history ends in a split 1905 Simply put, this was the craziest doubleheader in White Sox history. In the opener in Boston, the American Bill Dineen no-hit the South Siders, 2-0, at the soggy Huntington Avenue Base...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: July 22

Satchel Paige beat Bill Veeck into the Hall of Fame, but on this day 33 years ago, our beloved owner got in. Bill Veeck gets baseball’s highest honor 1928 Hall-of-Famer Red Faber could do it all — and on occasion, he could hit. Up to bat in the top of the eighth at Yankee Stadium, with two outs and runners at second and third and the game tied, 4-4, Faber was down two strikes. The righty F...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: June 2

Ty Cobb made the White Sox a 16-15 loser on this day, 99 years ago. | Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images With one swing, Ty Cobb renders 15 runs by the South Siders worthless 1925 The White Sox scored 15 runs vs. Detroit — and lost. Ty Cobb was a villain, lining a one-out, full-count pitch from Ted Blankenship out of Tiger Stadium in the bottom of the ninth for the...2024
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• Jerry Reinsdorf is in ‘active discussions’ to sell the White Sox

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images ... and it’s possible the South Siders could even leave town. Josh opened discussion on this topic in BCB After Dark but I thought I’d weigh in with my thoughts on the report in The Athletic that White Sox managing general partner Jerry Reinsdorf is, after years of denying he was interested in selling the team, is now apparently doing just that: Longtime majo...2024
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• The Oakland Coliseum Is a Great Good Place

The Oakland Coliseum is a place where everyone is welcome. | Kurt Squire Saying hello and goodbye in one spontaneous and surprising White Sox trip If paying my respects to the Oakland Coliseum wasn’t reason enough to hop on a shuttle to Oakland, The White Sox on a 21-game losing streak was. My wife and kids turned down their chance to be a part of history, so I checked the details— $100 F...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: August 26

Charles Comiskey (left), pictured here in 1920 with Bill Veeck’s father, William, thought the biggest danger to his health was watching White Sox games. On this day 104 years ago, Comiskey learned differently. Today’s theme? Stealing 1920 During a robbery attempt at the Illinois Vinegar Manufacturing Company on August 3, three armed bandits gunned down highly-respected detective sergeant F...2024
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• This day in Braves History: Braves send Lou Pinella into retirement

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The legendary manager went down in defeat, with the Braves being the team to hand him his final loss. Braves franchise history 1927: Braves outfielder Eddie Brown surpasses Fred Luderus’s modern National League mark of 533 consecutive games played from 1916 through 1919. Steve Brodie played 574 consecutive games from 1893 throug...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 21
Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Lou Gehrig retires, the Red Baron’s birthday, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narrative...2023
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 10
Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Jackie Robinson signs, Bill Veeck gives away seats, Cubs wave the BIG BANNER for the first time and win, too. Always made fresh, never reheated. Episode #778. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted,...2023
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• Watch “The Saint of Second Chances” and feel good about baseball again

Mike Veeck presides over son Night Train devouring a so-called “sloppy dog” during one of their many baseball stops — this one, in Florida. As the movie teases, this may not be the last we see of this tag-team. | Acey Harper/Getty Images Can Mike Veeck buy the White Sox, please, and bring this thing full circle? I finally had a chance to view the new Netflix documentary about the tale o...2023
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• Sure, we think they’re failures

The White Sox brain trust, plus three guys standing in front of them. | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports But from their perspectives, they’re doing just great If there’s one point of agreement among all Chicago White Sox fans, it’s that the Three Stooges who run the team and its baseball operations are completely incompetent. And from the viewfinder of, you know, baseball success, that’...2023
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• Cub Tracks’ Yu who?

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. Javier Assad ran out of gas and a Tatis tater ruined the night. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheate...2024
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• What can be learned from White Sox history?

Figure out a way to bring these two guys back to life, and all shall be well. The history of the inglorious season of 1970, that is The White Sox of 1970 have been ingloriously brought to the fore by the White Sox of 2023, as 101 losses is the most for the team since that dreaded 1970 record-setter. But while there is very little hope that the current powers-that-be in Bridgeport can keep...2023
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• A visit to the site of the Giants’ original San Francisco home, Seals Stadium
Photo by Jon Brenneis/Getty Images And the story of how the Cubs helped deny the Giants the 1959 N.L. pennant. SAN FRANCISCO — So I was in the Bay Area visiting my dad over the All-Star break, and I thought I’d spend a bit of time visiting the site of the original home of the Giants when they moved to San Francisco in 1958, Seals Stadium. Truth be told, this ballpark has been gone for more...2023
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• Today in White Sox History: November 2

Happy birthday, Wimpy. | Ron Vesely/Getty Images Happy birthday to a South Side folk hero 1946 Beloved White Sox broadcaster and member of the 1983 White Sox division champs Tom Paciorek was born in Detroit. Paciorek was a two-sport star at the University of Houston, drafted in the ninth round by the Miami Dolphins and the fifth by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Offering $18,000 more as a bonus...2023
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• Erick Fedde deserved better, but White Sox still get embarrassed by the Twins

Erick Fedde stuck out a career-high 11 and the White Sox offense delivered. Then, the ninth inning came. | Matt Krohn/Getty Images A record-breaking start can’t stop the losing. Plus, things that would get me to enjoy the worst White Sox team in history Happy Tuesday, White Sox friends, and happy birthday to hypothetical slugger Gavin Sheets. We’ve got a lot to unpack today, so I’ll open ...2024
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This man, Dick Ruthven, singlehandedly scuttled the success of one of the biggest trading days in White Sox history, 49 years ago today. | George Gojkovich/Getty Images One of the busiest trading days in South Side annals ends as a sum negative 1975 In an effort to start improving a desultory offense, White Sox GM Roland Hemond and new owner Bill Veeck acquired former NL batting champ Ralp...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: October 15

On this day a century ago, the White Sox and Giants left North America for Europe, and a 10th anniversary “world tour.” | Chicago Tribune Ten years after, the South Siders and Giants shove off again to Europe 1917 The White Sox won their second World Series title, beating the New York Giants four games to two. The score in the series clincher was also 4-2. Just two days after finishing the...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: August 22

On this day one year ago, a rare change was made in the executive offices at 35th & Shields. | David Banks/Getty Images Lo, an executive era endeth 1923 In a game at Comiskey Park, White Sox pitcher Hollis “Sloppy” Thurston threw an immaculate inning of relief (striking out the side on only nine pitches) versus the Philadelphia Athletics. Thurston’s Immaculate Inning came in the 12th, mowi...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: August 8

On this day 47 years ago, Lamar Johnson won a game — and set a club mark. | Set Number: X24506 TK1 R3 The Hit Men go ham 1914 The White Sox purchased the contract of outfielder Oscar “Happy” Felsch from Milwaukee for $19,000. Felsch, an outstanding glove man and hitter, would become part of history with his participation in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. 1976 With the White Sox in last plac...2024
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• The NBC World Series

Top flight baseball in Wichita. From July 25 to August 3, the National Baseball Congress will hold and celebrate the 90th anniversary of the NBC World Series. The World Series used to be held at the old Lawrence-Dumont Stadium in Wichita, Kansas, and will feature the very best amateur teams from locales across this great country of ours. The NBC World Series is now played at Eck Stadium on the cam...2024
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