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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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• Today in White Sox History: April 9

On this day one year ago, Yoán Moncada’s injury put all “big three” White Sox hitting stars on the IL. | Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Yoán Moncada goes down — and out 1963 The start of the season found the White Sox in Detroit, and it was a highlight game for third baseman Pete Ward. Ward smacked a seventh-inning, three-run home run off of Jim Bunning to push the Sox into t...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: April 5

On this day 42 years ago, Jimmy Piersall was fired from the White Sox, via telegram. | Set Number: X3619 A rough day at the ballpark, for fielder, pitcher and broadcaster 1974 The White Sox opened the season at home under freezing conditions versus the Angels and Nolan Ryan. Wilbur Wood started, which caused broadcaster Harry Caray to comment that the game was “The tortoise against the har...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: February 12

On this day 44 years ago, Marc Hill arrived on the South Side — and ended up as Carlton Fisk’s backup for the next six seasons. | Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images Booter comes a-callin’ 1955 Chet Lemon, who would become the best defensive center fielder in White Sox history, was born in Jackson, Miss. Moving to Los Angeles at a young age, Lemon played youth baseball with Hall-of-Fame...2025
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• This Day in MLB History: Cleveland trades John Rocker to the Rangers

Photo by John Cordes/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images MLB History 1903 - Ban Johnson is reelected as president of the American League and given a raise to $10,000. The league also votes to allow coaches at first and third base at all times. The AL also adopts the “foul strike” rule that has been in place in the National League since 1901. A foul ball will now count as a strike unless there...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 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 7

Johnny Humphries (second from left) was in Chicago for Bob Feller’s (seated) no-hitter in 1940, then was a core pitcher for the White Sox from 1941-45. On this day 78 years ago, the righty was shipped to Philly. | Bettmann/CORBIS/Bettmann Archive The South Siders ship a wartime rotation mainstay east 1945 Johnny Humphries was sold to the Phillies. The righthander had been a rotation stalwa...2024
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• Bill Melton: 1945-2024

First South Side home-run champ, and longtime broadcaster, passes away at 79 He was an All-Star, an American League home run champion, and later if life a rarity: an honest pre- and postgame host covering the White Sox on television. Former White Sox third baseman Bill Melton passed away after a short illness Wednesday night in Phoenix, at the age of 79. His passing stunned the White Sox family, w...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: December 2

On this day 76 years ago, Bob Kuzava came to the White Sox. Traded in-season in five different years after that, it was wise for Bob to keep a suitcase packed at all times. The South Siders swing a solid, three-player deal 1937 It was a deal met with outrage from Detroit fans, as the Tigers sent outfielder Gee Walker, catcher Mike Tresh and third baseman Marv Owen to the White Sox for star...2024
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• That Dick Allen and Tommy John aren’t already in the Hall of Fame is a travesty

These doors should open wide for two ex-Sox players. One that can be rectified, though too late for one of them to know it the state of being known or talked about by many people, especially on account of notable achievements That’s what the folks at Oxford say fame is, and when it comes to the English language, they’re the experts. Bear that definition in mind when we get to the second of...2024
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1959

Randy Jackson, with the Cubs in 1953 | Photo by Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images More deals that probably should not have been made. The Cubs had a good year in 1958 and had the reigning league MVP in Ernie Banks. They were second in the NL in runs that year, but third-worst in runs allowed. So, pitching is the need, right? Did they go out and trade for pitching? The answer, as you lik...2024
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• For the White Sox, deja vu all over again would actually be good

Roland Hemond was no Chris Getz, lucky for the White Sox. | Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images But don’t count on Yogi being prescient this time around As the White Sox rush toward the worst major league record of the modern era (post-1901), they are almost certain to blow by the team’s most losses ever, the 56-106 calamity of 1970. It could be history would repeat itself when it comes...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: July 27

Iván Calderón makes the steal of the season 1951 Among many injustices betraying a pro-Yankees slant in Major League Baseball over the years, this was egregious as they come. It was the start of a four-game series at Yankee Stadium, with Chicago trailing New York and Boston by just 3 1⁄2 games in the standing. The White Sox trailed the Yankees, 3-2, when the game was delayed 25 minutes by rain. Wh...2024
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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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"1971 It was the biggest crowd for a home opener in years, as 43,253 fans poured into Comiskey Park to see the “New Look” White Sox under new player personnel director Roland Hemond and manager Chuck Tanner."

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"Chuck Tanner (White Sox manager for Allen’s three years) Roland Hemond and I talked about anything that we were going to do."

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"1985 - The Pirates name Jim Leyland as their new manager replacing Chuck Tanner."

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"In an effort to give Melton an additional at-bat or two and aid his chase for the title, manager Chuck Tanner had the power hitter leading off in Chicago’s final two games."

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"Nationals manager Dusty Baker always admired Chuck Tanner from afar."

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• This Day in MLB History: Cleveland trades John Rocker to the Rangers
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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: December 7
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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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• Dick Allen is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame!

It’s too late for him to enjoy, but Dick Allen finally gets his due. | Ron Vesely/Getty Images Our all-time great slugger finally gets his due Almost four years ago to the day, we lost Dick Allen. Ironically, his death came on the eve of yet another Hall of Fame vote that saw him fall short. Today, FINALLY, the Hall of Fame has righted and long-wrong by electing the timeless slugger to the...2024
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• The 1970 Cubs were better than the 1969 Cubs. Why didn’t they win?

Jim Hickman scores for the Cubs against the Mets on May 23, 1970 | Photo by James Drake /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images It was another failure, in some ways more frustrating than the fabled ‘69 team. Yesterday, I posted this article about how some players who the Cubs let go for almost nothing in the late 1950s and early 1960s might have helped the 1969 team get over the hump and make...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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• 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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• Today in White Sox History: October 3

One year ago today, we said goodbye to Tony La Russa for the last time. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Saying goodbye to Tony for the second, and final, time 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 York Highlanders at 87-60-4 and four games left, there was still hope for a pennant...2023
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• Today in White Sox History: July 27
On this day nine years ago, two White Sox legends found their way into Cooperstown. Two pairs of White Sox legends enter the Hall, 50 years apart 1951 Among many injustices betraying a pro-Yankees slant in Major League Baseball over the years, this was egregious as they come. It was the start of a four-game series at Yankee Stadium, with Chicago trailing New York and Boston by just 3 1⁄2 ...2023
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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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• Today in White Sox History: June 20

Alex Ríos had an outstanding game to cap off an immaculate road trip, in Washington on this day, 14 years ago. | G Fiume/Getty Images The South Siders steam home, streaking 1926 In a game with the Yankees that the White Sox won 4-3, a record was set for the largest crowd to see a game at Comiskey Park before the upper deck was added in 1927: 43,000. In fact, so many fans were in the park,...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: June 4

Jake Burger delivered some rare magic for the White Sox with a walk-off grand slam, one year ago. | Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Jake Burger goes BOOM! 1959 The 1959 season was filled with marathon games for the White Sox. This was the first one that went at least 17 innings, and every one of them took place against Baltimore. In this game, Earl Torgeson’s solo home run...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: April 5

On this day 29 years ago, Dave Martinez began an extremely impressive three-year run on the South Side. | Mitchell Layton/Getty Images One of the most underrated outfielders in club history begins his career on the South Side 1974 The White Sox opened the season at home under freezing conditions versus the Angels and Nolan Ryan. Wilbur Wood started, which caused broadcaster Harry Caray to...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta signs Andres Galarraga

Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1979 - The Braves sign reliever Al Hrabosky to a five-year, $2.2 million deal. 1997 - Atlanta signs first baseman Andres Galarraga to a three-year, $24.8 million deal. MLB History 1888 - The Joint Rules Committee reduces the number of balls for a walk from five to four. 1950 - Pirates general manager Roy Haley resi...2023
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• Who could be the next inductees for the Braves Hall of Fame?

Brian McCann is a sure-fire Braves Hall of Fame player. Will 2024 be the year of his induction? | Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images With the 25th anniversary of the of the Braves Hall of Fame coming up in 2024, here is a look at some of the possible candidates to be inducted next year. The Braves Museum and Hall of Fame welcomed its inaugural class in 1999, with Warren Spahn, Phil Niekro...2023
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• Today in White Sox History: September 4

On this day 49 years ago, Jim Kaat started a winning streak that would not end until 1975. | Diamond Images/Getty Images Streaks galore, including some big hitting outputs 1937 Mike Kreevich tied the MLB record, with four doubles in four straight at-bats, in a 9-1 win at Detroit. The center fielder’s 4-for-6 day, with three runs and an RBI, moved his batting average up to .318. Three of h...2023
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• Today in White Sox History: December 18

This scene was repeated 35 times in Juan Pierre’s White Sox career. The outfielder who led the league twice in caught-stealing was officially acquired by the White Sox on this day, 14 years ago. | Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Big names acquired, to no avail 1969 The White Sox swapped Pete Ward to the Yankees for pitcher Mickey Scott, plus cash. Ward...2023
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• Today in White Sox History: December 10

Perhaps Ken Harrelson’s best move as GM came on this day, 38 years ago: Snagging Bobby Bonilla in the Rule 5 draft from Pittsburgh. | Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images Ken Harrelson’s best move as GM? 1963 One of the last players from the “Go-Go” Sox era, second baseman Nellie Fox, was traded to the Houston Colt 45’s for pitchers Danny Murphy and Jim Golden, plus cash. Fox was a futu...2023
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• A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1973

Bill Madlock at third base for the Cubs in 1976 | Getty Images It was a year of great change for the team. You surely know the story of the last gasp of the great Cubs teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s that never won anything. This team roared out to a great start, then at one point went on an 8-31 run that took them out of contention. Later they struggled back and still had a chance...2023
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