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One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Chicago team was established as a major league baseball club in.

The club was originally called the Chicago White Stockings, after the nickname abandoned by the Cubs, and the name was soon shortened to Chicago White Sox, believed to have been because the paper would shorten it to Sox in the headlines.

At this time, the team played their home games at South Side Park.

In, the team moved into historic Comiskey Park, which they would inhabit for more than eight decades.