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  • Today in White Sox History: March 22
    • Today in White Sox History: March 22
    Bob Elson, shown here in 1977 hobnobbing with Richie Zisk in the White Sox dugout, broadcast games in Chicago from 1929-75, an unparalleled run. | Barb Urbanek The all-time games-broadcasted king of the South Side is born 1904 Bob Elson, who would become the longest-tenured broadcaster in White Sox history, was born in Chicago. Elson graduated from DePaul but became a WGN voice in 1929 al...2024
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  • Full White Sox 2024 promo schedule released
    • Full White Sox 2024 promo schedule released
    Say hi to Pudding, happy to be at Dog Day 2023! | Chicago White Sox What are you standing in line for this season? The White Sox announced additional 2024 promotions, inaugural theme nights, and returning fan-favorite celebrations with just a week left until Opening Day. If you missed the initial release, don’t worry! I covered the first round of promos back in January. So, what’s added ...2024
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  • Remembering Greatness of Joe Louis
    • Remembering Greatness of Joe Louis
    There is a rich history in the heavyweight division and we’re ready to explore the remarkable story of one of the legends of the first half of the 20th century, Joe Louis. Known as the “Brown Bomber” he was dominant for the better part of a decade as the champ, transcending racial barriers to add to his great legacy. Joe Louis: The Greatest Heavyweight of All Time? Remembering Jo...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
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  • Today in White Sox History: March 17
    • Today in White Sox History: March 17
    On this day 114 years ago, Comiskey Park construction began. What would happen if an entire spring training was rained out? 1903 The White Sox left for what would become a disastrous spring training in New Orleans. Two straight weeks of rain would permit just two games to be played. The club would break for home early, yet still encounter some rain on the way back north. 1910 Constructio...2024
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  • Today in White Sox History: March 11
    • Today in White Sox History: March 11
    Is Nancy Faust getting birthday wishes from her donkey, Mandy? Could be. | Bonnie Trafelet/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Happy birthday to perhaps the greatest acquisition the South Siders ever made 1947White Sox organist and baseball legend Nancy Faust was born in Chicago. Nancy is a White Sox icon, deserving of better franchise acknowledgement, as well as Baseba...2024
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Comiskey Park injury and suspension

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  • This Day in Braves History: John Rocker suspended
    • This Day in Braves History: John Rocker suspended
    Set Number: X58918 TK4 R2 F2 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 became the first black player in major league hist...2024
  • 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: 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 12
    • Today in White Sox History: January 12
    Just one year after converting from shortstop to pitcher, Sergio Santos was in the big leagues. | Set Number: X83844 TK1 R2 F77 The story of the most successful pitcher conversion in club history starts here 1982 In the January phase of the amateur draft that no longer exists today, the White Sox unearthed the unlikeliest of success stories. Miami Dade College’s John Cangelosi was selecte...2024
  • Today in White Sox History: January 2
    • Today in White Sox History: January 2
    Goodbye to the 1941 All-Star winner 1946 The White Sox bought pitcher Alex Carrasquel and shortstop Fred Vaughn from Washington. While Carrasquel would throw just three career games for the South Siders, his nephew Chico Carrasquel would make a major impact with the club. Interestingly, after acquiring Chico in 1949, the White Sox dealt away Uncle Alex for relief pitcher Luis Aloma — who would als...2024
  • Today in White Sox History: August 11
    • Today in White Sox History: August 11
    This elf managed to avoid getting beat up by the White Sox manager. When your manager attacks an elf, you know it’s gonna be a weird day 1912 Future Hall of Fame catcher Ray Schalk made his major-league debut after being acquired from Milwaukee on August 9. He’d wind up leading the league in games caught in a season seven times. 1941 In the first game of a doubleheader at Comiskey Park b...2023
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  • • Today in White Sox History: July 31
    Ken Griffey Jr., acquired on this day 15 years ago, was the reason for this John Danks celebration two months later. Refresh your memory on why, below. | Jamie Squire/Getty Images Milestone homers, and trades made (and not) 1909 “Sleepy” Bill Burns fired a two-hitter in a doubleheader opener, defeating Walter Johnson in Washington, 1-0. The White Sox also knocked off the Senators in the n...2023
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  • • The Cubs have two All-Star pitchers. That’s a fairly rare event.
    Getty Images: Quinn Harris (Justin Steele), Jamie Sabau (Marcus Stroman) And in the last year it happened before now, the Cubs won the World Series. Cubs starters Marcus Stroman and Justin Steele have been among the top starters in all of baseball in 2023, and they have both been named to the National League All-Star team. Congratulations to both pitchers — even if they don’t wind up pitch...2023
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  • South Loop Sox ... again
    • 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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Timeline

  • 2024
    "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."

  • 2023
    "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."

  • 2022
    "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."

  • 2020
    "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."

  • 2016
    "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."

  • 2015
    "26 in Chicago's Comiskey Park, with five innings of workmanlike pitching: one hit and six strikeouts."

  • 2014
    "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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Comiskey Park trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

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  • White Sox “need” new stadium to compete?
    • 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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  • Today in White Sox History: January 23
    • Today in White Sox History: January 23
    Omar Vizquel turned out to be incredibly unworthy of the No. 11 un-retired on his behalf. | Lisa Blumenfeld/Getty Images Chicago loses its most ridiculous 1B-DH 1928 Alfonso “Chico” Carrasquel was born in Caracas, Venezuela. A 21.3 WAR player over his decade in the majors, Chico made an immediate impact with the White Sox, finishing 12th in AL MVP voting as a rookie and in just his secon...2024
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  • Today in White Sox History: January 21
    • Today in White Sox History: January 21
    The 2011 season was a disaster, but on this day 13 years ago, spirits were high — and Ozzie Guillén was guaranteed the 2012 season. | Brian Kersey/Getty Images Ozzie gets a freebie 1985 The White Sox signed free agent pitcher Dave Wehrmeister. Wehrmeister was a No. 3 overall pick in the 1973 January draft, by the San Diego Padres. Still, players bypassed in the summer and grabbed later (b...2024
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  • The 78 proposal: One White Sox con job, coming up
    • The 78 proposal: One White Sox con job, coming up
    These guys had nothing on Jerry Reinsdorf. | crimereads.com That hand you feel in your pocket is Jerry Reinsdorf’s The White Sox have made negligible news on the baseball front this offseason, but they made the headlines big time this week after the Sun-Times ran an article on discussions with city officials about building a stadium on a chunk of old railroad yard known as The 78, bounded...2024
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  • • South Loop Sox ... again
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Comiskey Park stats and results

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  • In Memoriam: The White Sox We Lost in 2023
    • In Memoriam: The White Sox We Lost in 2023
    A southpaw star, long-distance slugger, popular broadcaster and beloved scout were among our dearly departed It’s the time of year where, as we grimace ahead into 2024 and what awaits us with the Chicago White Sox, we look back at those South Siders we lost in 2023. Included among them are a southpaw star, long-distance slugger, departed but popular broadcaster, and beloved scout. Please, feel fre...2023
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  • This Day in Braves History: Ronald Acuña becomes youngest player with a grand slam in the postseason
    • 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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  • Today in White Sox History: October 3
    • 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: August 13
    • Today in White Sox History: August 13
    On this day 90 years ago, Hal Rhyne pushed his batting average to .405 with his eighth consecutive single. | Sporting News and Rogers Photo Archive via Getty Images Two marathon games, 21 years apart 1933 The White Sox lost in 17 innings, 6-5, against Detroit. The loss is notable in that it remains tied for the 15th-longest game in White Sox history. However, it also saw the end of eight ...2023
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  • Today in White Sox History: August 10
    • Today in White Sox History: August 10
    Batboy third baseman Craig Grebeck hit a monumental first career home run, on this day, 33 years ago. | Rick Stewart/Getty Images A new Murderer’s Row is born on the South Side 1959 White Sox infielders Nellie Fox and Luis Aparicio appeared together on the cover of Sports Illustrated. The headline read, “Magic Up The Middle, Fox And Aparicio.” 1981 The White Sox brought the most signific...2023
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  • • Remembering Greatness of Joe Louis
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  • Meet the Players: International Women’s Day Edition with Melissa Sage-Bollenbach
    • Meet the Players: International Women’s Day Edition with Melissa Sage-Bollenbach
    Melissa Sage-Bollenbach/South Side Sox Let’s celebrate Melissa! According to the International Women’s Day website, March 8 is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. Women should be celebrated daily. I like to think that’s the case at South Side Sox as we consiste...2024
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  • • Today in White Sox History: January 21
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  • • In Memoriam: The White Sox We Lost in 2023
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  • Soxivus Week 1 companion: Why are you still a White Sox fan?
    • Soxivus Week 1 companion: Why are you still a White Sox fan?
    Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Tommy Barbee, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Dante Jones, Leonard Gore and Brett Ballantini explain how it is they remain devoted to this club Welcome to Soxivus 2023! For those of you actively following the White Sox, it may feel like you’ve never left. Between exiling players and announcers, canceling the lone semblance of fan interaction, and the steaming pile of ...2023
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  • Watch “The Saint of Second Chances” and feel good about baseball again
    • Watch “The Saint of Second Chances” and feel good about baseball again
    Mike Veeck presides over son Night Train devouring a so-called “sloppy dog” during one of their many baseball stops — this one, in Florida. As the movie teases, this may not be the last we see of this tag-team. | Acey Harper/Getty Images Can Mike Veeck buy the White Sox, please, and bring this thing full circle? I finally had a chance to view the new Netflix documentary about the tale o...2023
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  • Today in White Sox History: September 9
    • Today in White Sox History: September 9
    On this day, White Sox legend Luke Appling made it to the back to see the final out of a White Sox win; he’d be in the lineup for keeps the next day. Luke Appling arrives in town! 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 of the 10th inning of a 3-...2023
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  • • Today in White Sox History: August 11
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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
  • • 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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  • • 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
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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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Comiskey Park rumors, scandals

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  • Today in White Sox History: January 19
    • Today in White Sox History: January 19
    Rip Radcliff, with teammate Zeke Bonura, was born on this day, 118 years ago. A future All-Star outfielder rips onto the scene 1906 Rip Radcliff, who wouldn’t make his MLB debut until age 28 but ended up with MVP votes in three subsequent season, was born in Kiowa, Okla. The left fielder played his first six seasons for the White Sox, finishing 16th in MVP voting in 1936 and 15th in 1937....2024
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  • Today in White Sox History: August 20
    • Today in White Sox History: August 20
    It was a weak hit, but still one that stopped Bobby Jenks’ record-tying streak on this day, 16 years ago. | Chuck Rydlewski/WireImage Big “Days” for two legends — 60 years apart 1915 The White Sox acquired Shoeless Joe Jackson from Cleveland for $31,500 (almost a million today) along with pitcher Ed Klepfer, outfielder Braggo Roth and a player to be named later. Klepfer had seen scant tim...2023
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