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  • Today in White Sox History: September 2
    • Today in White Sox History: September 2
    Luis Aparicio (No. 11, sliding into third) and the White Sox could not be stopped during a robust fifth inning of a doubleheader sweep on this day, 65 years ago. | Set Number: X6051 The Go-Go club can’t stop scoring 1918 In a season-ending doubleheader (the 1918 season ended early because of World War I) at Detroit, Buck Weaver rapped out eight hits in 10 at-bats. The Sox would lose the ga...2024
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  • Today in White Sox History: August 14
    • 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
  • Today in White Sox History: July 21
    • Today in White Sox History: July 21
    Twelve years after Jackie Robinson broke MLB’s color barrier, Pumpsie Green took the field in Chicago against the White Sox. Pumpsie Green accomplishes a last “first,” on the South Side 1917 After splitting the first two of a five-game series at Comiskey Park, the AL-leading White Sox battled the second-place Red Sox over 15 innings, with the game declared a 5-5 tie on account of darkness...2024
  • Today in White Sox History: July 10
    • Today in White Sox History: July 10
    He might have been battling the afternoon sun, but on this day two years ago Robbie Grossman (then a left fielder in Detroit) snapped his MLB record with a fly ball drop that would come to cost the Tigers a win at Sox Park. | Quinn Harris/Getty Images Robbie Grossman finally drops the ball 1916 The White Sox swept Boston in a doubleheader, 4-0 and 3-0, with Lefty Williams and Reb Russell e...2024
  • Today in White Sox History: May 3
    • Today in White Sox History: May 3
    On this day 106 years ago, Buck Weaver slapped a record-tying five singles in a romp at Detroit. Buck Weaver leads an assault on Detroit pitching 1918 The White Sox set their record for biggest win in team history, trouncing the Tigers by 16 runs, 19-3. With a 6-0 lead in the second inning, the visitors put the game away early. The club also set their record for most hits in a game, with ...2024
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  • Today in White Sox History: April 23
    • Today in White Sox History: April 23
    Chet Lemon hit four of Chicago’s near team-record 21 singles in the opener of a doubleheader on this day, 43 years ago. | Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images South Siders make it rain singles 1919 Perhaps the most talented White Sox team ever opened the season in St. Louis and destroyed the Browns, 13-4. Lefty Williams got the win, throwing a complete game. Six months later, after win...2024

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  • Today in White Sox History: March 12
    • Today in White Sox History: March 12
    During spring training 41 years ago today, Carlton Fisk hoped he could play a few more years. | Chicago Sun-Times Carlton Fisk hopes to play through his mid-30s 1921 All eight Black Sox (Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicotte, Lefty Williams, Swede Risberg, Fred McMullin, Chick Gandil, Happy Felsch and even Buck Weaver) were suspended for life by commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. None will play i...2024
  • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta signs Ervin Santana
    • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta signs Ervin Santana
    Photo by Juan Salas/Icon SMI/Corbis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 2014 - After injuries to Brandon Beachy and Kris Medlen, the Braves sign right-hander Ervin Santana to a one-year, $14.1 million deal. He will start 31 games and post a 3.95 ERA in 196.0 innings. MLB History 1921 - MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspends eight members of the Chicago Whi...2024
  • Today in White Sox History: November 4
    • Today in White Sox History: November 4
    Bright star turned tarnished Black Sock Lefty Williams died on this day, 64 years ago. | George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images Two departures, from different walks of life 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 White Sox boug...2023
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  • Baseball history unpacked, October 9
    • Baseball history unpacked, October 9
    Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. A rotten day for Cubs playoff teams, historically speaking. Happy birthday to Courtney Duncan! 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...2023
  • Today in White Sox History: October 2
    • Today in White Sox History: October 2
    Black Sox mound conspirators Lefty Williams and Eddie Cicotte pose together in 1919; on this day 104 years ago, Williams flopped horribly in his start, sparking a fight in the locker room and fix whispers to get much louder. | Bruce Bennett Studios via Getty Images Studios/Getty Images The postseason turns Black, and damp 1904 Doc White’s streak of 45 consecutive scoreless innings was bro...2023
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  • Today in White Sox History: September 27
    • Today in White Sox History: September 27
    With a win on this day 103 years ago, Dickie Kerr became the fourth 20-game winner in the 1920 White Sox rotation. | Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images An amazing feat by a doomed rotation 1920 A 2-0 win over the Tigers gave Dickie Kerr his 20th win of the season in a game that took all of 66 minutes, one of the quickest games in franchise history. But it also gave the White Sox their f...2023
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  • Today in White Sox History: September 2
    • Today in White Sox History: September 2
    Buck Weaver ended the 1918 season with a bang, rapping out eight hits in a doubleheader finale 105 years ago today. Another big doubleheader for a South Side hitter 1918 In a season-ending doubleheader (the 1918 season ended early because of World War I) at Detroit, Buck Weaver rapped out eight hits in 10 at-bats. The Sox would lose the games, 11-5 and 7-3. Weaver went 5-for-5 in the firs...2023
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  • • Today in White Sox History: July 21
    Yes, Jamie Burke (!) caught the first of Mark Buehrle’s three complete games with 27 batters faced — on this day, 19 years ago. | Jamie Mullen/Getty Images Mark Buehrle attains “perfection” 1917 After splitting the first two of a five-game series at Comiskey Park, the AL-leading White Sox battled the second-place Red Sox over 15 innings, with the game declared a 5-5 tie on account of dark...2023
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    "Here are the Top 10 and Worst 10 Opening Day starts in White Sox history: The Top 10 Frank Smith’s all-time best White Sox opener effort, in 1910, was a one-hit shutout Eddie Lopat in 1947, Wilbur Wood in 1976 and Mark Buehrle in 2005 also were shutouts Billy Pierce in 1957 and Lefty Williams in 1920 both went 11 innings to earn their top scores Only one game in the Top 10 was a loss: Bill Dietrich’s heartbreaker in 1946 Dylan Cease’s amazing Opening Day win in 2023 is tied for 11th all-time, an 81 game score The Bottom 10 Not altogether surprisingly but still a bit shocking: Five of the 10-worst Opening Days ever thrown have come in the 21st Century, despite this era comprising approximately 20% of seasons in White Sox history Indicative of how good the 1963 White Sox would turn out to be, the club won Ray Herbert’s 12 game score start, the sixth-worst in team history Poor Vern Kennedy; he not only authored the only negative game score in White Sox Opening Day history — it was the only time he got the ball to start Opening Day!"

  • 2023
    "1919 - White Sox starter Lefty Williams retires just one batter as the Reds go on to win 10-5."

  • 2022
    "Confessions, later repudiated, are signed by Ed Cicotte, Joe Jackson, Lefty Williams, and Happy Felsch."

  • 2016
    "Red Sox Designate Williams Jerez For Assignment"

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  • Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
    • Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
    It rarely got better than what Garrett Crochet offered this year on Opening Day. | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports In White Sox history? 79th percentile ... not bad for a first career effort Yes, it’s been an incredibly long week and especially endless day, but Garrett Crochet’s surprise excellence on Opening Day — pitching at least one inning and exceedingly sharper than anyone had th...2024
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  • Baseball history unpacked, October 23
    • Baseball history unpacked, October 23
    Photo Reproduction by Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Quite a glare he had, Jack Coombs. He was a Cubs nemesis for a long time, way back in the day. Plus many other events in this episode. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centr...2023
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  • Today in White Sox History: October 22
    • 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
  • Baseball history unpacked, October 2
    • Baseball history unpacked, October 2
    Adam Greenberg gets his chance at bat | Photo by Marc Serota/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The sad tale of Adam Greenberg 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 vario...2023
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  • Today in White Sox History: August 14
    • Today in White Sox History: August 14
    Yeah, the nickname was ironic. But would you believe me if I told you center fielder Happy Felsch had a gun? He nailed four Red Sox in a game to set a record, on this day 104 years ago. A Happy center fielder guns down four runners 1915 The White Sox purchased the contract of pitcher Lefty Williams from Salt Lake City of the Pacific Coast League. Williams might have been inducted into the...2023
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Lefty Williams stats and results

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    Chris Sale acknowledges White Sox fans upon breaking the team’s all-time season strikeout mark, on this day seven years ago. World Series Game 2s provide some major soakings 1904 Doc White’s streak of 45 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 would start both games, winning the ...2022
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, September 23
    Charles Conlon A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB factoids, gathered from reputable sources. Fred Merkle memorialized. 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 h...2022

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  • Today in White Sox History: October 9
    • Today in White Sox History: October 9
    On this day, young White Sox executive Chuck Comiskey made what would go down in history as a brilliant move to restore the fortunes of the franchise: Hiring Frank Lane. | Chicago Sun-Times A big hire, a huge upset — and a sad ending 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 ...2023
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  • Today in White Sox History: October 8
    • Today in White Sox History: October 8
    Tim Raines cracks one of his White Sox record-tying four hits, in Game 3 of the 1993 ALCS, on this day 30 years ago. | Set Number: X45090 Wilson Álvarez and Tim Raines reverse the course of the ALCS 1919 The White Sox won again in Cincinnati, narrowing their World Series deficit to four games to three, taking Game 7, 4-1. The Pale Hose were in control from the jump, as Shoeless Joe Jackso...2023
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  • • Today in White Sox History: October 29
    In true Halloween fashion, Tony La Russa was b-a-a-a-a-a-c-k on this day, two years ago. | Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Changes at the top — and not always for the better 1920 Eight members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox — Swede Risberg, Chick Gandil, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Buck Weaver, Eddie Cicotte, Lefty Williams, Happy Felsch and Fred McMullin — we...2022
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  • • Today in White Sox History: October 9
    Fielder Jones (second from right) warns the umpires and Cubs manager Frank Chance that an all-time World Series upset was in the making, beginning on this day 112 years ago. | Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images A huge upset begins today, in the greatest World Series ever played 1906 With flurries in the air, baseball’s third World Series (and first-ever intracity Series) kicked off at We...2022
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  • This Day in Braves History: Max Fried leads Braves to win in Game 2 of 2021 Division Series
    • This Day in Braves History: Max Fried leads Braves to win in Game 2 of 2021 Division Series
    Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 2005 - The Braves fall to the Astros, 7-6 in Game 4 of the NLDS on a walk-off home run by Chris Burke. The game is the longest postseason game ever lasting 18 innings and takes 5 hours and 50 minutes to complete. It is also the first postseason game to feature two grand slams. The Astros advance to the NLCS to face...2023
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  • This Day in Braves History: Hank Aaron hits final home run for Atlanta
    • This Day in Braves History: Hank Aaron hits final home run for Atlanta
    Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1974 - Hank Aaron hits his final home run as a member of the Atlanta Braves. Atlanta defeats the Reds 13-0. Phil Niekro tosses the shutout and picks up his 20th win of the season. MLB History 1919 - The Chicago White Sox drop the second game of the World Series, 4-2 to the Reds. Lefty Williams walks three men in the fourth inni...2023
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  • Today in White Sox History: September 28
    • Today in White Sox History: September 28
    On this day, it was the beginning of the end for the eight Black Sox — and the fracturing of a potential White Sox dynasty. | New York Times Co./Getty Images It’s the beginning of the end for eight South Siders 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 fie...2023
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  • • Red Sox Designate Williams Jerez For Assignment
    The Red Sox have announced that they’ve designated lefty Williams Jerez for assignment. The move clears roster space for first baseman Mitch Moreland, whose one-year deal is now official. The Red Sox drafted Jerez in the second round in 2011. They added him to their 40-man roster after the 2015 season, in which he posted…...2016
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  • Today in White Sox History: April 11
    • Today in White Sox History: April 11
    Early Wynn reached a milestone in his first start of 1959, 65 years ago today. | Getty Images Early Wynns his 250th 1917 The world championship season began in St. Louis, where the White Sox battered the Browns, 7-2. Jim Scott picked up the win, giving up four hits and a run in six innings of relief work for Lefty Williams. Buck Weaver drove in three runs for the Sox on the day. Slightly ...2024
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