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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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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta signs Paul Byrd to two-year contract

Braves Franchise History 1995 - The Braves trade Kent Mercker to the Orioles in exchange for Joe Borowski and Rachaad Stewart. Merker spent the first seven years of his career with the Braves where he went 31-25 with a 3.49 ERA in 515 ⅔ innings. He appeared in 14 games for the Orioles in 1996 before they sent him to Cleveland in exchange for future Hall of Fame first baseman Eddie Murray. 2002 - ...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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• This day in Braves History: Braves trade rookie blocked by Eddie Mathews

Photo by Hy Peskin/Getty Images The future Hall of Famer had third base locked down for the Braves, so Ed Charles was sent elsewhere. Braves Franchise History 1948: The Dodgers trade Pete Reiser to the Braves for outfielder Myron McCormick. The marvelously talented but reckless Reiser crashed into too many outfield walls and, according to Red Smith, was carried off on a stretcher 11 times...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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• Today in White Sox History: December 8

Taffy Wright, shown during his career-best 1941 season, headlined three transactions on this day, 85 years ago. | Chicago White Sox A bevy of moves in 1939, including the acquisition of an outfielder mainstay 1914 The White Sox purchased future Hall of Fame second baseman Eddie Collins from Connie Mack and the Philadelphia A’s. The price was incredible by on 1914 standards: $50,000 went to...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: November 21

On this day 131 years ago, Ban Johnson took control of what would become the American League. Ban Johnson kick-starts the future American League 1893Ban 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 ...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: October 2

BOOM! On this day 16 years ago, Dewayne Wise gave the White Sox one of their rare 2008 playoff leads. | Set Number: X81190 TK1 R1 F25 Dewayne Wise plays temporary hero 1904 Doc White’s streak of at least 45 1⁄3 consecutive scoreless innings was broken when the New York Highlanders got a run in the first inning of the first game of a twin bill in Chicago. White started both games, winning t...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: September 29

Alexei Ramírez and his record-breaking, game-winning home run on this day 16 years ago has become one of the most iconic images in White Sox history. Homer Hands! 1908 White Sox starting pitcher Ed Walsh fired two complete games in a doubleheader against the Red Sox. He won both, 5-1 and 2-0, allowing only seven total hits and one walk. That season, Walsh would have arguably the greatest ...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: September 28

Even a three-run clout from Bill Melton couldn’t avoid an embarrassing franchise record, on this day, 54 years ago. The 1970 club sets an infamous record ... only now broken 1902 For the second game of a doubleheader at Sportsman’s Park, the Browns and White Sox used the last day of the season to throw all non-pitchers in their game. White Sox left fielder Sam Mertes got the 10-4 win, beat...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: September 26

Eddie Cicotte pitched his last major league game on this day, 104 years ago. Two days later, he was suspended, never to play in the majors again. | New York Times Co./Getty Images The race remains close — but the 1920 South Siders are on the edge of disaster 1905 In a doubleheader at Boston, White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh relieved starter Doc White in the first inning of the first game without...2024
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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."

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• Today in White Sox History: November 21
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• Today in White Sox History: November 11

Charley Lau, seen here catching Hall-of-Famer Warren Spahn, got his greatest notoriety as a batting coach. On this day 43 years ago, Lau was hired to a record-setting, six-year deal to coach White Sox hitters. | Los Angeles Examiner/USC Libraries/Corbis via Getty Images Charley Lau comes to Chicago, with a record-breaking contract 1926 The White Sox traded one future Hall-of-Famer player-m...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: October 27

White Sox legend Ozzie Guillén was in the 1999 World Series for Atlanta — an on this day 25 years ago, the fourth Series loss of the 1990s tied that team in with a White Sox opponent. An Atlanta loss ties it with another foe, vanquished on the South Side 1876 Some 24 years before the White Sox were even founded, a key member of the later-1900s Pale Hose was born on this day. Patrick “Patsy...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: October 23

Walt Hrinak had so many Hall of Fame disciples, he even counts a basketball Hall-of-Famer among his pupils: Michael Jordan. | Set Number: X45758 The South Siders make a second hitting coach splash in a decade 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 ma...2024
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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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• 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: October 26

On this day 35 years ago, Joe Nossek and his multitude of off-field abilities returned to the White Sox to coach. | Chicago Tribune Coffee and Juice returns to the South Side 1931 White Sox founder and owner Charles Comiskey died in his home in Eagle River, Wis. He left his entire estate to his son, Louis Comiskey (including the White Sox) assets valued at $1,529,707 million (the equivalen...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: October 6

On this day 41 years ago, Mike Boddicker silenced a loud White Sox offense in the ALCS. | Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images A day of playoff setbacks includes an offensive meltdown in Baltimore 1905 The White Sox lost the pennant on the next-to-last day of the season when pitcher Doc White couldn’t beat the bottom-feeding St. Louis Browns. White and the Sox lost, 6-2, and handed the flag to the...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: September 27
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• Today in White Sox History: September 26
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• Today in White Sox History: April 26

Hitting machine Dick Allen had his first White Sox walk-off home run on this day, 52 years ago. It wouldn’t be his last. Dick Allen takes his first hero turn on the South Side 1925 The White Sox forfeited a game to Cleveland. It happened in front of a Comiskey Park-record crowd of 44,000 fans. So many fans were at the game that owner Charles Comiskey allowed them on the field, behind rope...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: December 19
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• Today in White Sox History: December 17
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• Today in White Sox History: October 14

Jon Garland tossed a complete-game masterpiece in Game 3 of the ALCS, 19 years ago today. | Jeff Gritchen/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images Jon Garland keeps the rotation’s roll going 1906 The White Sox beat the Cubs, winning the World Series four games to two, behind the pitching of Doc White. The South Siders clinched the title by winning the sixth game, 8-3. Th...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: October 9

Charles Comiskey hired Donie Bush (left) as manager on the success of his Pirates squads, but a weak White Sox roster saw Bush survive just two seasons on the South Side. Donie Bush can’t take losing any longer 1906 With flurries in the air, baseball’s third World Series (and first-ever intracity Series in baseball) kicked off at West Side Park. The 116-win Chicago Cubs were huge favorites...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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• Today in White Sox History: August 14

On this day 113 years ago, Ed Walsh pitched a one-hitter — and came within a single step of a no-no. | Chicago Tribune GIANT SLABMAN comes within one step of a no-hitter 1911 Ed Walsh pitched the 17th one-hitter in White Sox history, shutting out the Tigers, 2-0, at Comiskey Park. The one Detroit hit came in the sixth inning and was a near-miss, as catcher Oscar Stanage sent a ball back th...2024
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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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• White Sox don’t have the excuses the Spiders did

1899 Cleveland Spiders | sportsencyclopedia.com But a famed figure for the South Side was partly to blame Much of the time when writers or announcers refer to the 2024 White Sox steaming toward the worst record in major league history, they include the word “modern,” either with or without quotation marks. That’s because 1901 is considered the start of the modern era of professional baseba...2024
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• Vote for the 2024 South Side Sox White Sox Hall of Fame!

Jack McDowell came the closest to being elected, without topping the 75% threshhold, in our last Hall of Fame election. | Otto Greule Jr/Allsport/Getty Images Let’s immortalize our sixth class of the best South Siders of all time Once upon a time, the Chicago White Sox had a team Hall of Fame — until they decided to put it in mothballs, in favor of an extended gift shop. Now the Sox have ...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: February 21

Joe Jackson [second from left] and his other six Black Sox defendants thought they were home free from game-fixing accusations, but all ended up banished for the game, forever. | Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images South Carolina comes to Shoeless’ defense 1909 Fielder Jones formally tends his resignation as manager, also retiring as a playe...2024
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