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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
  • Baseball history unpacked, April 3
    • Baseball history unpacked, April 3
    Happy birthday, Jason Kipnis! | Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Jason Kipnis! 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 na...2024
  • MLB is starting to realize the consequences of embracing sports gambling
    • MLB is starting to realize the consequences of embracing sports gambling
    Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Baseball isn’t the only sport that has a mess on its hands but it is once again the sport with the highest-profile athlete in the midst of it. When it comes to gambling and professional sports in North America, the genie is well and truly out of the bottle. The NFL, NHL and WNBA all have teams located in Las Vegas and MLB is trying their hardest to ...2024
  • Thursday Rockpile: In memory of a disheartening Spring Training
    • Thursday Rockpile: In memory of a disheartening Spring Training
    Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, March 28, 2024 It’s been a long March. The month is typically reserved for hope and optimism for baseball fans as the air fills the sound of cleats on dirt and the crack of wooden bats as winter thaws into spring in MLB camps around Arizona and Florida. However, this year has been much less satisfying for not...2024
  • Today in White Sox History: March 25
    • Today in White Sox History: March 25
    Two outs from Neal Cotts was all the White Sox bullpen was allowed in the 2005 ALCS. | G. N. Lowrance/Getty Images Happy birthday to a 2005 hero 1951 White Sox legend Eddie Collins died at age 63, in Boston. Unquestionably the best second baseman in White Sox history (67.0 WAR), Collins also managed the team for two full seasons in the aftermath of the Black Sox scandal. Despite a gutted...2024
  • A few thoughts about the Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhara betting situation
    • A few thoughts about the Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhara betting situation
    Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images Here’s hoping this isn’t as bad as it looks. This has already been a topic of discussion around baseball for a few days, but I wanted to wait a bit and digest all the information out there regarding the betting situation involving Dodgers star Shohel Ohtani and his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, or at least as much as I could, before writing about it. What we...2024
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Black Sox injury and suspension

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  • Shohei Ohtani interpreter’s explosive gambling controversy, explained
    • Shohei Ohtani interpreter’s explosive gambling controversy, explained
    Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images This is everything we know about the the wild gambling allegations against Ippei Mizuhara Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter. Shohei Ohtani has the Los Angeles Dodgers and Major League Baseball in damage control mode after reports emerged on Wednesday that MLB’s most marketable global megastar was adjacent to a swirling gambling scandal. It’s a story that invo...2024
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  • Vote for the 2024 South Side Sox White Sox Hall of Fame!
    • 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
  • 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
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  • Today in White Sox History: March 4
    • Today in White Sox History: March 4
    While dodging foul balls on the roof of Tempe Diablo Stadium, one of today’s authors shot this photo, 13 years ago. | Brett Ballantini/South Side Sox Jake Peavy’s amazing, unprecedented comeback season begins 1921 In the wake of the “Black Sox,” owner Charles Comiskey attempts to rebuild his team, and one of the first moves he makes is to acquire future Hall-of-Famer Harry Hooper from the...2024
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  • Baseball history unpacked, February 28
    • Baseball history unpacked, February 28
    Happy birthday, Aroldis Chapman! | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Aroldis Chapman! 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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  • Baseball history unpacked, February 21
    • Baseball history unpacked, February 21
    Justine Siegal | Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. MLB doing what they do, Cubs and Dodgers trade minor-league teams, and you can win 10,000 BCB points, not legally tender, by naming the players sent to Boston as compensation for signing Theo Epstein. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbi...2024

Black Sox lifestyle

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  • Is it time to discuss Rays attendance?
    • Is it time to discuss Rays attendance?
    Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports Or what we call the “A” word? This recent Wild Card series was the least fun I’ve had watching baseball in quite a long time. To add insult to injury, the conversation around our suddenly-inept team was essentially overshadowed by the conversation we Rays fans always dread having. Attendance. Here's some perspective on today's attendance of 19,704 at the Tr...2023
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, August 2
    Photo by Gary Leonard/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources, a little bit cheesy but nicely displayed. The Dodgers have bright yellow balls, Walter Johnson debuts, Thurman Munson and Vin Scully pass on, and many other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cub...2023
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Timeline

  • 2024
    "MLB had better hope this possibility is not what happened, because if it is, this would be the biggest gambling scandal to hit the sport since the Black Sox — and to its biggest, most marketable star."

  • 2023
    "1921 - The Black Sox trial begins in Chicago 1921 - Babe Ruth passes Roger Connor to become baseball’s all-time home run leader with his 139th career homer."

  • 2022
    "Birch also wrote an article about how the 1919 Black Sox scandal might never have happened if White Sox pitcher Red Faber had been healthy."

  • 2020
    "Ultimately, the Houston Astros didn’t get away with the biggest baseball imbroglio since the Black Sox Scandal of 1918."

  • 2016
    "Two of the biggest scandals in baseball history centered on gambling—the 1919 Chicago Black Sox and Pete Rose's lifetime ban."

  • 2015
    "Alas, Thomas—despite playing with the Chicago Black Sox of recreational basketball—wins three out of five games in the series."

  • 2014
    "Rare Film Captures White Sox Before They Were Black Sox"

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Black Sox trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

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  • Today in White Sox History: February 21
    • 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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  • • Baseball history unpacked, February 21
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  • Today in White Sox History: February 2
    • Today in White Sox History: February 2
    Joel Skinner had every opportunity to make his mark with the White Sox, but feel short of doing so. | George Gojkovich/Getty Images The South Siders make history by drafting ... a replacement player 1964 Red Faber, who pitched all 20 of his seasons with the White Sox, was named to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee. Astoundingly Faber, whose 67.7 pitching WAR ranked 11th at the ti...2024
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Black Sox stats and results

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  • Today in White Sox History: January 31
    • Today in White Sox History: January 31
    For fans of age in the 1990s, seeing Frank Thomas wearing the green-and-gold was a shocker. | Jason Wise/MLB via Getty Images Bo Knows California — and Big Frank, too 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 c...2024
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  • Today in White Sox History: January 13
    • Today in White Sox History: January 13
    On this day 97 years ago, Aaron Ward left the Murderer’s Row Yankees for a season on the South Side. | Conlon Collection The South Siders snag a slick second-sacker 1922 Black Sox member Buck Weaver petitioned for reinstatement into baseball. The former White Sox third baseman was one of eight players banned for life due to his involvement in throwing the 1919 World Series to the Cincinna...2024
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  • Today in White Sox History: October 17
    • Today in White Sox History: October 17
    On this day 100 years ago, Kid Gleason stepped away from the rebuilding White Sox. | Chicago Tribune A century ago, Kid Gleason stepped away from his sinking club Chicago Tribune 1923 Manager Kid Gleason, who piloted the villainous Black Sox in 1919 and oversaw the team in the aftermath of eight core members of the roster banned for life, resigned. He spoke to his te...2023
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  • 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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  • • Baseball history unpacked, August 2
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  • • Today in White Sox History: January 31
    On this day 29 years ago, Bo goes. Bo Jackson is going to California 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 patent one day before his 34th birthday. 1956 Buck Weaver d...2023
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, January 13
    Kevin Foster had bad luck as a Cub. Today’s his birthday | Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB factoids, gathered from reputable sources. Kevin Foster had bad luck as a Cub. Today’s his 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,...2023
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Black Sox parents, kids, wife / husband, girlfriend / boyfriend

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  • Let the people speak, White Sox — we dare you
    • Let the people speak, White Sox — we dare you
    Comiskey Park under construction, 1910. The people’s money for a fancy new park? Let’s vote on it! FIRST, A LITTLE HISTORY A while back, my wife gave me a book titled Turning the Black Sox White. Nice idea, but it’s so excruciatingly boringly written it’s a slog to get through unless you’re desperate to know who all of Charles Comiskey’s team members were on any outfit he had anything to ...2024
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  • Today in White Sox History: December 26
    • Today in White Sox History: December 26
    Though 34 years old at the time of this photo, baby-faced Carlton Fisk had 12 years in the majors still ahead of him. | Set Number: X25623 And on this day, a Pudge was born 1890 Harry Grabiner, first and longest general manager of the White Sox, was born in Chicago. He was a 40-year employee of the team, rising literally from peanut vendor to vice president. Grabiner served under three Co...2023
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  • • Today in White Sox History: October 17
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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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  • • Know Your Enemy: New York Yankees
    Yes, they’re at home this series. | Wikimedia Commons It’s time to face the team that everyone genuinely hates! I was recently talking to a friend who doesn’t follow baseball, and asked her if she knows why she should hate the Yankees. And she didn’t have any idea. I anticipated her saying “Oh, because they are jerks who win all the time,” because hatred of the Yankees can and should find...2023

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  • • Unique Black Sox memorabilia to hit market
    Unique items that include the big names from the 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal will hit the auction block on Monday....2015
  • • Pete Rose Met with Rob Manfred Regarding Reinstatement
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  • • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta acquires Fred McGriff from Padres
    Braves Franchise History 1961 - Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock and Joe Torre pull off a triple steal in the sixth inning against the Reds. It is Aaron’s first steal of home. 1993 - The Braves acquire first baseman Fred McGriff from the Padres in exchange for Melvin Nieves and Donnie Elliott. Steve Avery and two relievers shutout the Pirates 2-0 despite allowing 13 hits. 2012 - The Braves and the Giants ...2023
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  • • Man who started petition to ban Patriots from Super Bowl: 'This is the Black Sox all over again'
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  • • NFL appeal compares Brady to 1919 Black Sox
    NFL appeal compares Brady to 1919 Black Sox...2015
  • • 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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Black Sox rumors, scandals

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  • Baseball gambling scandals: Shohei Ohtani's interpreter joins Pete Rose, Black Sox on list dating back to 1865
    • Baseball gambling scandals: Shohei Ohtani's interpreter joins Pete Rose, Black Sox on list dating back to 1865
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