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It should be noted that the 1920 team still managed to win 96 games and had four 20 game winners in Williams, Cicotte, Red Faber and Dickie Kerr. When these other players also confessed, they were immediately suspended by Comiskey, and the Sox team, in first place on August 31, collapsed to second place. Suspicions about how the Sox played simmered during the Series, but the lid didn't blow until the following August, when Eddie Cicotte admitted what the players had done, implicating himself, Jackson, fellow pitcher Lefty Williams, Chick Gandil, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver, Oscar 'Happy' Felsch and utility infielder Fred Mc Mullin.

They won the pennant by three games over Cleveland but lost to an underdog Cincinnati Reds team in the World Series. The players who formed the solid core of the 1917 champions also formed the rotten core for the 1919 Black Sox. No one at the time would have believed this would be their last championship in the 20th Century. Blending with home grown talent, the Sox won 100 games in 1917 (the only Sox team to reach the century win mark) and dispatched the New York Giants in six games to win their second world title. The Cubs had pillaged their way to 116 wins that year (a record that still stands) but averaged only 1.5 runs per game against Sox pitching.Īfter some lean years, Comiskey went on a spending spree that netted him two of the game's top hitters - 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson from Cleveland and Eddie Collins from Philadelphia - and one of the game's best pitchers in Boston's Eddie Cicotte.

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The Sox won the pennant by three games and then upset their cross-town rival Cubs in the only all-Chicago World Series ever played. Frank Owen (22-13, 2.33), Nick Altrock (20-13, 2.06), Doc White (18-6, 1.52 to lead the league) and Ed Walsh (17-13, 1.88) combined for a team ERA of 2.13, led the Sox on a 19-game win streak in August (eight of the wins by shutout), and overall, won 29 one-run games.

What carried the day was a wondrous pitching staff whose names may be forgotten by modern day fans, but were very familiar to hitters of their era. 279 and no one came close to shortstop George Davis' team-leading 80 runs batted in. The White Sox next reached the top in 1906 with a team dubbed the 'Hitless Wonders' for their paltry batting average of. They wound up with the junior circuit's best record that first year at 83-53, but with the World Series not yet conceived, there was no postseason play. The White Sox first game was an 8-2 win against Cleveland on April 24, 1901. Working actively with baseball executive Ban Johnson, they successfully established the rival American League in 1901. When the National League (the only major league at the time) contracted by four teams in 1899, Comiskey moved the Saints to the South Side in 1900 where they played a final minor league season in the Western League.Īn agreement with the Chicago National League franchise forbid his team the use of several names, so the White Sox, a nickname similar (White Stockings) to the one used by the Cubs from 1876 through 1889, were born. A former player and manager, Comiskey purchased the minor league team in Sioux City, Iowa, which he moved to St. Having fielded competitive teams in the first two decades of the 20th century, the 1919 team intentionally lost the World Series in the infamous 'Black Sox' scandal.Ĭharles Comiskey was both father and midwife to the White Sox franchise. If there are baseball gods, then the justice they mete out is both severe and long lasting - 88 years to be exact. CHICAGO WHITE SOX The Official History of the Chicago White Sox | Baseball Almanac

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