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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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• 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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• Today in White Sox History: November 8

Chicago’s Polish Prince, Richie Zisk, was unrecognizable as he showed up for spring training in 1978. | Focus on Sport/Getty Images The South Siders lose one of their Hit Men 1977 The upstart South Side Hit Men, who led the AL West for about a third of the season and took baseball by storm in peaking at 25 games better than .500, were laid to rest with the loss of outfielder and folk hero ...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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• Today in White Sox History: October 30

On this day a dozen years ago, Jake Peavy was awarded some Gold. | Ron Vesely/MLB via Getty Images Jake Peavy, Gold Glover 1959 He was acquired before the start of the 1958 season, and part of the cost was trading the popular Minnie Miñoso, so pitcher Early Wynn didn’t start out on the right side of things with a lot of Sox fans. Compounding the issue was a mediocre 1958 season. In 1959, h...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, September 30

Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Alfonso Soriano hits homers, playoff action, a perfect game, 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...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 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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• Today in White Sox History: September 19

Jake Peavy won his White Sox debut on this day, 15 years ago. But the good fortune would not last. An injured Jake Peavy makes a winning debut on the South Side 1925 The White Sox set the franchise record (tied in 1987) for the largest shutout margin in team history when they blanked the Senators, 17-0, at Washington. The game was the back half of a twin bill. Ted Lyons threw a one-hitter,...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: September 17

On this day 118 years ago, future White Sox superstar Eddie Collins made his major league debut — under a different name, and against the South Siders! | Jim Smiley/CooperstownExpert.com Eddie Collins debuts — against his future club 1906 Future White Sox star and Hall-of-Famer Eddie Collins made his MLB debut, against the White Sox — as Eddie Sullivan! Collins played semipro baseball whil...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: September 6

On this day 56 years ago the first incarnation of NASL soccer wound down, with a win at Comiskey Park. | Chicago Tribune The Chicago Mustangs whinny their last 1903 Doc White of the White Sox hurled a one-hitter in beating Cleveland, 1-0, in 10 innings in Chicago. It would be the first of five one-hitters thrown by White between 1903 and 1908 without ever throwing a no-hitter. Cleveland’s ...2024
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• South Loop Sox ... again

The 1960s South Loop Sox Park ... that never was. | stadiumpage.com White Sox in “serious” talks to build new stadium in the 78? Late Wednesday evening, news trickled out on Twitter that the Chicago White Sox were in “serious” talks to build a new ballpark on a vacation parcel of land at Clark & Roosevelt streets in the South Loop. While the source of this news is a Sun-Times article, wi...2024
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• What am I feeling, exactly?
Like the ageless Carlton Fisk, our White Sox fandom knows few bounds. | Set Number: X44360 When die-hard meets die, hard Even in a baseball season as disappointing as this one, there is still that “feeling” I get when I’m driving to the park, turning on the television, or streaming the radio broadcast. What IS that feeling? Anticipation, dread, excitement, nervousness? Probably all of the...2022
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"And at least then, Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn could at least scapegoat the age and condition of then 75-year-old Comiskey Park as cause for a new ballpark."

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"Arriving by helicopter and dressed as Martians, the quartet drops onto the Comiskey Park infield and shakes hands with second baseman Nellie Fox and shortstop Luis Aparicio, giving them toy ray guns as the public announcer informs the 40,000 plus in attendance that the “extraterrestrials” have arrived to help the somewhat short keystone double play combo in their struggle with giant earthlings."

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"Per his SABR biography: Three days after graduating from high school, Ellsworth unexpectedly found himself hurling from the major-league mound at Comiskey Park in Chicago."

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"From her perch at Comiskey Park starting 50 years ago this summer, Faust introduced walk-up music and injected irreverent reactions to in-game shenanigans."

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"The biggest crowd in six years flocked to Comiskey Park, and the Sunday spectators were not only there to see the hometown White Sox play in a doubleheader."

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"26 in Chicago's Comiskey Park, with five innings of workmanlike pitching: one hit and six strikeouts."

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"CHICAGO — When Adam LaRoche was a kid, he used to hang with his father at old Comiskey Park when Dave was a coach with the Chicago White Sox."

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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: October 13

On this day 53 years ago, Rich Hinton was dealt to the Yankees. However, the southpaw would come back to play in three separate seasons on the South Side, as well as excel with the Triple-A affiliate Denver Bears. | Denver Post via Getty Images A couple of minor trades — and a couple of big postseason games 1906 The White Sox had escaped with a split of the first four games of the Wo...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 30

On this day a year ago, owner Jerry Reinsdorf said White Sox fans should be “pissed off” about the disappointing 2023 season. Wait until he hears about 2024. | Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Jerry gets upset 1904 On Ladies’ Day at the park, pitcher Doc White completed one of the most amazing months in White Sox — and baseball — history, with a 4-0 ...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: October 16

Teammates on the White Sox just two years earlier, Tommie Agee (center) greets Al Weis (left) after Weis’ seventh-inning, game-tying home run that helped clinch the World Series for the Miracle Mets, on this day 55 years ago. | Robert Walker/New York Times/Getty Images A light-hitting ex-South Siders becomes a Miracle Mets savior 1917 In support of the war effort, the White Sox beat the Gi...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta pitches third shutout through four postseason games

Set Number: X163406 Braves Franchise History 2013: The Dodgers are the first team to clinch a spot in the League Championship Series as they eliminate the Braves with a 5-4 win in Game 4 of the NLDS. Trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the eighth, the Dodgers reversed the tide on Juan Uribe’s two-run homer off David Carpenter. Carl Crawford hits a pair of solo homers for Los Angeles’s other two...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: October 8

On this day 65 years ago, the White Sox knocked Johnny Podres (cap touch) out of the box in the fourth inning — but as the scoreboard says the game, and the World Series, was already lost. | SetNumber: X6226 TK3 R1 F9 Eliminated from two postseasons in one day 1919 The White Sox won again in Cincinnati, narrowing their World Series deficit to four games to three, taking Game 7, 4-1. The P...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: September 9

On this day 54 years ago, Alex Johnson did something at Comiskey Park that only Jimmie Foxx and Hank Greenberg had previously accomplished. | Set Number: X16842 TK2 R8 F29 A crushing blow from Alex Johnson 1917 It’s the only time the White Sox have ever won a forfeited game. In a game at Comiskey Park, Cleveland protested a close interference call that went against Jack Graney in the top o...2024
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• As Hall Induction Nears, Pedro Martinez Looks Back on Best Pitching Season Ever
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• How Nancy Faust (and her organ) set the tone for America's pastime
If not for Nancy Faust, "Crazy Train" might have never arrived at the ballpark. From her perch at Comiskey Park starting 50 years ago this summer, Faust introduced walk-up music and injected irreverent reactions to in-game shenanigans....2020
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• Baseball history unpacked, May 26
Happy birthday, Ben Zobrist! | Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. 1959 was a weird year, Ben Zobrist’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...2023
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• White Sox “need” new stadium to compete?

Apparently, billionaire Jerry Reinsdorf needs more money, and he doesn’t even feel he needs to ask you for it. | John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images We’ve heard this song and dance before Haven’t we heard this story before? Jerry Reinsdorf is again making specious and unsubstantiated claims that the ballpark his White Sox play in inhibits them from competin...2024
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• Inside a Beanball War: How One Play Turned into Three Days of Royals, A's Rage
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 7
Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to David Bote, the Milwaukee saga, 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...2023
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• This Day in Braves History: Bud Selig suspends John Rocker
Braves Franchise History 2000 - Bud Selig suspends Braves reliever John Rocker until May 1 after comments made in an interview with Sports Illustrated. Rocker also receives an undisclosed fine and is ordered to undergo sensitivity training. MLB History 1919 - Jackie Robinson is born in Cairo, Georgia. Robinson will become the first black player in major league history when he debuts for the Brook...2023
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• This Day in Braves History: Ronald Acuña becomes youngest player with a grand slam in the postseason

Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 2013: The Dodgers are the first team to clinch a spot in the League Championship Series as they eliminate the Braves with a 5-4 win in Game 4 of the NLDS. Trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the eighth, the Dodgers reverse the tide on Juan Uribe’s two-run homer off David Carpenter. Carl Crawford hits a pair of solo homers for Los Angeles’s...2023
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• Gary Peters, 1937-2023
Our tribute to the Rookie of the Year and dominant 1960s pitching force comes in the form of an extended Q&A With the passing of Gary Peters, once again we are able to produce a wonderful tribute to him in the form of an extended Q&A. Peters, by WAR, was the 17th-best pitcher in the history of a very pitching-rich franchise, and tied with Ray Durham for 38th-best player overall. Our sincerely cond...2023
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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 24

The A.J. Pierzynski-Doug Eddings bromance blossomed again, in even more outrageous fashion, on this day, 16 years ago. | José M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images George Bell goes deep, and A.J. Pierzynski goes down 1910 It was a noteworthy publicity stunt. With the White Sox in Washington, D.C., catcher Billy Sullivan caught a ball tossed off of the top of the W...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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