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• Today in White Sox History: March 21

1900 After a meeting with the Chicago Orphans (Cubs), the way was cleared for Charles Comiskey to bring his team from St. Paul, Minn. to Chicago. They would set up shop on the South Side of the city, as required by the Orphans. (In truth, Comiskey was bringing the team to town regardless of whether the north siders approved. […]...2026
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• Today in White Sox History: March 16

1900 American League president Ban Johnson unveiled a key new city for the junior circuit: Chicago. Charles Comiskey, tight with Johnson to the point of sharing office space with him in Chicago, will move his St. Paul Saints into town to join the AL. Johnson brokers an agreement with the Chicago Orphans (Cubs) both to […]...2026
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• Today in White Sox History: March 4

1921 In the wake of the Black Sox, fortunes were going to turn hard against the fortunes of the South Siders — but don’t blame future Hall-of-Famer Harry Hooper. Charles Comiskey attempted to rebuild his team, making the acquisition of Hooper from the Red Sox as a cornerstone move. The trade didn’t prevent the three-decade fall to come, […]...2026
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• Today in White Sox History: January 29

1900 Charles Comiskey received permission to relocate the Western League’s St. Paul Saints to Chicago, where they will become the White Sox of the American League. 1957 With air travel commonplace and MLB now stretching from coast to coast, the league considered drafting a plan to create a player pool to be used in the […]...2026
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• Today in White Sox History: January 20

1910 The first 10-year White Sox player, Frank Isbell, retired to manage the Wichita Jobbers of the Western Association, a position he long coveted. In fact, Isbell had been petitioning Charles Comiskey since late in the 1907 season to retire, after teammate Patsy Dougherty accidentally spiked Isbell in the hand and severely injured him. Comiskey, […]...2026
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• Today in White Sox History: January 18

1952 Chuck Comiskey, namesake and grandson of White Sox founder Charles Comiskey, resigned from the club after his mother, White Sox owner (and Charles’ daughter-in-law) Grace Comiskey, denied his request for a raise. Thus began an almost decade-long family drama, played out mostly in public. Some bullet-point highlights: 2008 After seven seasons in Cuba and […]...2026
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• Today in White Sox History: July 9

On this day 38 years ago, Ozzie Guillén made as much difference in a White Sox win with his bat as his glove. | Owen C. Shaw/Getty Images Ozzie slaps out five hits in a South Side win! 1910 Near the start of an arduous, 22-game road trip that took them to every American League city but St. Louis, the White Sox dropped a doubleheader nightcap at Yankee Stadium, 3-2, in 11 innings. While tha...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: June 24

It only seemed like Frank Thomas was dragging two bats to the plate in 1991, but on this day 34 years ago The Big Hurt hit his first career grand slam. | Focus on Sport/Getty Images Frank Thomas hits a grand slam to help set the 1991 team back on course 1914 In a telegram discovered in 2012, White Sox owner Charles Comiskey told scout George Mills that the asking price for pitcher Babe Rut...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, May 14

Bobby Scales ascends to the Show. | Matt Kartozian-Imagn Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Bobby Scales* ascends to The Show at age 31, and other stories for the discerning reader. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, wit...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: March 21

Dude, where did my season go? Paul Assenmacher was aces for the White Sox in his sole South Side season of 1994, running up 0.9 WAR in roughly two-thirds of a summer. | Ron Vesely/Getty Images The South Siders swap for a sly southpaw 1900 After a meeting with the Chicago Orphans (Cubs), the way was cleared for Charles Comiskey to bring his team from St. Paul, Minn. to Chicago. They would s...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 10

Happy Birthday, Donnie Murphy! | Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The last lockout ends, Veeck buys darned Sox, Cactus League fun, and a syzygy. Happy birthday, Donnie Murphy!* On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at ...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: March 5

On this day 66 years ago, the White Sox passed out of Comiskey family hands for the first time, ever. | Chicago Sun-Times Bill Veeck is legally cleared to take over on the South Side 1907 The White Sox departed Chicago on the Sunset Limited train, en route to Mexico City for spring training — the first-ever Spring Training held outside of the United States. The traveling party for the defe...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: March 4

Pictured in his final season (1925), Harry Hooper cemented his Hall of Fame case with five terrific seasons in Chicago. | Bruce Bennett Studios via Getty Images Studios/Getty Images In the dying gasp of the White Sox dynasty of more than a century ago, Charles Comiskey makes a brilliant deal for Harry Hooper 1921 In the wake of the Black Sox, fortunes were going to turn hard against the fo...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, February 7

It’s Juan Pizarro’s birthday | Photo by Louis Requena/MLB Photos via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Some notable Cubs were born, a couple of Hall-of-Famers pass, and other stories for the discerning reader. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric lo...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: February 7

Johnny Humpries (second from left) had an uneventful career in Cleveland, but reached stardom in Chicago. On this day 84 years ago, the White Sox brought him to town. | Bettmann/CORBIS/Bettmann Archive The South Siders deal a reliever on the wane for an also-ran ready to blossom 1941 In what turned out to be quite a heist, the White Sox sent pitcher Clint Brown to Cleveland for pitcher Joh...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: January 31

Two eventual Hall-of-Famers, Al López and Casey Stengel, joke around at Yankee Stadium in 1958. El Señor gets the Hall call 1909 White Sox catcher Billy Sullivan secured a patent on the first chest protector. It contained a wind pad with compressed air and became the forerunner of the modern catcher’s chest protector. Sullivan was the White Sox catcher from 1901-14. Sullivan gets the paten...2025
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"1918 Just one season removed from a (still) franchise-best 100 wins and World Series title, Charles Comiskey replaced manager Pants Rowland with Kid Gleason."

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"Louis Browns player-manager Charles Comiskey prevents a double play by running full tilt into Red Stockings second baseman Bid McPhee, enabling the Browns to win, 2-1."

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"MLB History 1901 - Ban Johnson and Charles Comiskey lease Sportsman’s Park for five years for an American League team."

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"MLB History 1901 - Ban Johnson and Charles Comiskey lease Sportsman’s Park for five years for an American League team."

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"Today in baseball history: 1931 - Charles Comiskey dies at age 72."

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"If the White Sox can be derailed by a disagreement over a teammate’s 14-year-old son, how in the name of Charles Comiskey can they be tough enough to handle the Kansas City Royals and Detroit Tigers in the AL Central?"

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"White Sox owner Charles Comiskey, rebuffed by American League President Ban Johnson as having sour grapes, hired his own private investigators to look into the matter."

• Today in White Sox History: January 29
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• Today in White Sox History: July 4

On this day 86 years ago, Eric McNair capped the greatest three-game, two-day run in White Sox history. | Chicago Tribune The greatest two-day hitting run in team history keys three wins 1911 Ty Cobb brought a 40-game hit streak into a game facing Ed Walsh, and the White Sox sace shut him down at 0-for-4 in a 7-3 win over the Tigers. Walsh earned his 14th win and chiseled his ERA down to 0...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: June 24
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• Today in White Sox History: June 12

On this day 40 years ago, Bruce Tanner (left) set a White Sox mark (and an MLB one dating back at least 25 years) by retiring nine straight hitters to begin his first start. | Charles Cherney/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Bruce Tanner gets off to a perfect start for the South Siders 1939 As part of the very first ceremony at the newly-finished shrine in Cooperstown,...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: May 29

With this loss to the Blue Jays one year ago today, the White Sox set a new franchise record by going 0-7 on a homestand. | Justin Casterline/Getty Images A futility record? In 2024? Yep, and neither the first nor the last 1922 Continuing to rebuild in the wake of the “Black Sox” scandal, owner Charles Comiskey spent $100,000 and purchased the contract of third baseman Willie Kamm from San...2025
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• Aye, there’s the catch (-er, that is)

The person wearing a mitt like this is definitely worth a lot. | fity.club Yes, the White Sox do really have a strong point Among the many bad quandaries facing the White Sox, there’s actually one that’s good — catching. Baseball-Reference keeps a statistic called Wins Above Average, or WAA, which is kind of bWAR, but with a higher-level requirement to get above zero. They keep WAA by pos...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: April 12

One year ago today, the Cincinnati Reds were yukking it up all game, romping to an 11-1 win that dropped the White Sox to 2-11 on the season. | David Banks-Imagn Images All-time worst status begins here, today, one year ago 1909 After weeks of begging Fielder Jones to come back and manage the White Sox for another year, Charles Comiskey hired catcher Billy Sullivan as player-manager of the...2025
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• 2025 Chicago White Sox Media Day: merch, food and giveaways

Rate Field being prepped for Opening Day! | Allie Wesel/South Side Sox Ready or not, here the season comes Last year’s motto at Rate Field was “Better at the Ballpark,” and in 2025 they are continuing in their endeavor to prove to you that this is true. Media Day 2025 was filled with a first look at the new team store, previews of the 2025 promotional items, and new ballpark offerings on t...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: March 21
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• Today in White Sox History: March 20

With key support of manager Ozzie Guillén (left), Sergio Santos became a key component of the White Sox bullpen. On this day 16 years ago, before his transformation from hitter to pitcher began, the White Sox traded Santos to the Giants to give him one last shot to make it as a shortstop. | Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Sergio Santos gets one last sho...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: March 21
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• Today in White Sox History: February 5

Roberto Alomar, one of two Alomars on the all-time Kenny Gets His Man list, was born on this day, 57 years ago. | Linda Cataffo/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images Happy birthday to a Hall-of-Famer with two stints on the South Side 1903 The Crosstown rivalry began, as the White Sox and Cubs announced plans to play their first games ever against one another. The series blossomed into the...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: January 31
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• The 2025 White Sox promo schedule is out!

Four straight complete games in the 2005 ALCS are commemorated with this unique bobblehead giveaway. | Chicago White Sox Celebrate 125 years on the South Side with a variety of unique promotional items Hello, White Sox fans! The season is drawing closer each day, and Spring Training arrives in about two weeks. With that comes the promotional schedule, so let’s take a peek at the press rele...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: November 20

On this day 44 years ago, the White Sox brought Jim Essian back home from Oakland. | Ron Vesely/Getty Images Jim Essian comes home 1869 Clark Griffith was born, in Clear Creek, Mo. While his 63.8 WAR career was built mostly in the 1890s as a pitcher for the Chicago Colts (Cubs), Griffith was a key member of the first MLB pennant-winning White Sox team, in 1901. For that season, Griffith j...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: November 15

On this day 76 years ago, the White Sox finally cut ties with stalwart outfielder Taffy Wright. Taffy gets pulled to Philly 1945 Harry Grabiner, the longest-tenured executive in White Sox history and certainly one of the longest-running employees overall, resigned as GM of the club. While not really formally holding a GM title, Grabiner had run the White Sox in tandem with three generation...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Terry Pendleton is named N.L. MVP

Braves Franchise History 1991 - Terry Pendleton is named as MVP of the National League. Pendleton led the lead in batting average (.319) and hits with 187. Pendleton will also win NL Comeback Player of the Year and his third Gold Glove Award. Pittsburgh’s Barry Bonds finished second in the voting. MLB History 1901 - Ban Johnson and Charles Comiskey lease Sportsman’s Park for five years for an Amer...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: November 4

The White Sox parted ways with Tim Anderson, who suffered a shocking tailspin in production in 2023, one year ago today. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The South Side says goodbye to TA 1959 White Sox pitching standout and central Black Sox World Series fixer Lefty Williams died in Laguna Beach, Calif. Williams had just six games under his belt (1913-14) with the Detroit Tigers when the Whi...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: January 18
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• Today in White Sox History: November 21

1893 Ban Johnson is given control of the reorganized Western League, being named its president, secretary and treasurer. While a minor league in this moment, the WL would transform into the American League by 1900 and ascend to major league status in 1901. A year later, Charles Comiskey left the major league Cincinnati Redlegs to […]...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: June 24
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• Today in White Sox History: March 1

On this day 124 years ago, Clark Griffith (seated next to Charles Comiskey, top hat) jumped crosstown to the White Sox. Under Griffith’s guidance as player-manager 1901 White Sox club won the first MLB AL pennant. A massive crosstown heist helps ensure a pennant 1901 In a monumental move as the White Sox entered the major leagues for the first time, the club snatched pitcher Clark Griffith...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: February 16

Howie Judson was pretty upbeat in 1950, for a guy coming off of a 1-14 season. | Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images Author of a great turnaround season at the dawn of the 1950s is born 1924 Early on this day Frank Chance resigned as manager of the White Sox, having been stricken ill with pneumonia some time after accepting the helm during the 1924 Winter Meetings in Chicago the previous ...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: February 5
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 27

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Ban the bunt, Campanella’s collision, the Kris Bryant* decision, and other stories for the discerning reader. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plen...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: January 29

They were the second choice to own the White Sox, and the White Sox were their second choice among teams to buy, but on this day 44 years ago, Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn took over the club. Our second-choice owners get to buy their second-choice team. What could go wrong? 1900 Charles Comiskey received permission to relocate the Western League’s St. Paul Saints to Chicago, where the...2025
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• Accusations of Broken Promises, Ugly Words: White Sox Rift Smashes Wide Open
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• Today in White Sox History: September 20

With a sayonara homer on this day 18 years ago, Joe Crede [middle] breathed life back into a successful season slipping away. | Ron Vesely/MLB via Getty Images Joe Crede counterpunches Cleveland 1902 Nixey Callahan threw the first no-hitter in White Sox history, as he beat the Tigers. It was just the second no-hitter in American League history. The Sox gave him all the runs he needed by s...2023
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• This Day in Braves History: Terry Pendleton is named N.L. MVP
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• Flashback: White Sox-Cubs Crosstown Play
Cubs fans love to blather on about whatever, but the truth is, in every decade of baseball there’s ever been, the White Sox have dominated them. | Ron Vesely/Getty Images Intracity games stretch farther back — with much more lopsided results — than you think Because interleague play has been relatively close between the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs, you might think that games betwe...2023
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• Baseball history unpacked, October 26
Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB factoids, gathered from reputable sources. World Series game 2 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 follow as they unfold over the course of time. Here’s a...2022
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• Today in White Sox History: July 4
Byron Buxton of the Minnesota Twins celebrates a triple play against the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field on July 4, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. | Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images A triple play for the ages 1928 With the White Sox floundering at 32-42, but more importantly after squabbling with owner Charles Comiskey over his salary, Ray Schalk resigned as White Sox ...2023
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• Today in White Sox History: October 22

The White Sox hype before Game 1 of the 2005 World Series was huge. Why, while there you could even buy a program featuring work from one of this article’s co-authors. | Brad Mangin/MLB via Getty Images The World Series returns to Chicago 1920 Taking less than a month to deliberate, a grand jury formally implicated Swede Risberg, Chick Gandil, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Buck Weaver, Eddie Cico...2023
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• Today in White Sox History: January 18
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• Today in White Sox History: October 23

1911 News broke early, in the Chicago Tribune, that Nixey Callahan would be returning as White Sox manager in 1912, replacing Hugh Duffy. Owner Charles Comiskey emphasized having a manager in Chicago year-round, to help with spring training arrangements and offseason moves — Callahan was a Chicago resident. (The official announcement was made on October […]...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: July 9
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• Today in White Sox History: June 1

On this day 107 years ago, Chick Gandil had a hellacious day at the plate. | Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images Chick Gandil hits into double and triple plays, in a game he’d like to forget 1913 The White Sox struck a deal with the Yankees for mercurial (and shady) first baseman Hal Chase. Chase played his way out of favor in New York and was given away for first baseman Babe Borton and ...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: May 29
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• Today in White Sox History: March 16

Five years ago today, the White Black Sox made their opera debut. | Minnesota Opera An opera about baseball? You betcha 1900 American League president Ban Johnson unveiled a key new city for the junior circuit: Chicago. Charles Comiskey, tight with Johnson to the point of sharing office space with him in Chicago, will move his St. Paul Saints into town to join the AL. Johnson brokers an ag...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: February 21

This game-tying single in the ninth at Seattle was one of many hero turns Zach Remillard made in his 2023 MLB debut. | Alika Jenner/Getty Images Happy birthday to a player authoring one of the greatest debuts in South Side history 1909 Fielder Jones formally tends his resignation as manager, also retiring as a player at age 36. Jones’ decision, late in the offseason, came only after heate...2025
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• This Day in MLB History: Alex Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera, and five other MLB players are listed in the Biogenesis Lab scandal

Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images MLB History 1901 - The Rules Committee comprised of Connie Mack, John McGraw and Charles Comiskey reject a proposal that would have banned the bunt and recommends no changes to the game at this time. 1930 - The Boston Red Sox sell former home run champ Ken Williams to the New York Yankees. However after acquiring him, New York will release Williams be...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: January 29
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• Today in White Sox History: January 19

The player most responsible for sending the White Sox into the basement for three decades, Chick Gandil, was born 137 years ago today. Happy birthday to a player ultimately as big a villain as ever seen in the game 1882 Infamous Black Sox ringleader Chick Gandil was born in St. Paul. The first baseman started his career with the White Sox in 1910, and played his last game, as he helped thr...2025
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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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• Today in White Sox History: November 15
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• Today in White Sox History: November 4
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• Today in White Sox History: October 22

This Cardinals game at Comiskey Park dates to the 1940s, before the ballpark featured a scoreboard in center field. On this day, Chicago’s other NFL team played its first game there. Time for a ... kickoff? ... at Comiskey 1920 Taking less than a month to deliberate, a grand jury formally implicated Swede Risberg, Chick Gandil, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Buck Weaver, Eddie Cicotte, Lefty Willia...2024
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