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-- Two errors by New York Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek in the eleventh inning donated four unearned runs and a 5-to-2 victory to the Chicago White Sox today.
-- Billy Gardner's line double, which just eluded the diving Minnie Minoso in left field, drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run with two out in the last of the ninth to give the Minnesota Twins a 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox Monday.
`` Even on the basis of 154 games, this is the ideal situation '', insists Hank Greenberg, now vice-president of the Chicago White Sox.
Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.
* 1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
William Hulbert, principal owner of the Chicago White Stockings, did not like the loose organization of the National Association and the gambling element that influenced it, so he decided to create a new organization, which he dubbed the National League of Baseball Clubs.
Playing to the pitcher's desire to return to his Midwestern roots and challenging Spalding's integrity, Hulbert convinced Spalding to sign a contract to play for the White Stockings ( now known as the Chicago Cubs ) in 1876.
Spalding then coaxed teammates Deacon White, Ross Barnes and Cal McVey, as well as Philadelphia Athletics players Cap Anson and Bob Addy, to sign with Chicago.
In 1876, Spalding won 47 games as the prime pitchers for the Chicago White Stockings, who captured the National League's inaugural pennant by a wide margin.
Category: Chicago White Stockings players
Category: Chicago White Stockings ( original ) managers
Colangelo's bid received strong support from one of his friends, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and media reports say that then-acting Commissioner of Baseball and Milwaukee Brewers founder Bud Selig was also a strong supporter of Colangelo's bid.
On December 3, 2007 the Diamondbacks traded Carlos Quentin, who had failed to perform to expectation, to the Chicago White Sox for first base prospect Chris Carter.
Joe Crede of the Chicago White Sox after being hit by a pitch.
Five teams have collected three sacrifice flies in an inning: the Chicago White Sox ( fifth inning, July 1, 1962 against the Cleveland Indians ); the New York Yankees twice ( fourth inning, June 29, 2000 against the Detroit Tigers and third inning, August 19, 2000 against the Anaheim Angels ); the New York Mets ( second inning, June 24, 2005 against the Yankees ); and the Houston Astros ( seventh inning, June 26, 2005 against the Texas Rangers ).
However, some of the more successful American League teams of recent memory, including the 2002 Anaheim Angels, the 2001 Seattle Mariners and the 2005 Chicago White Sox have experienced their success in part as a result of playing " small ball ," advancing runners through means such as the stolen base and the related hit and run play.
One of these clubs, the Chicago White Stockings, won the championship in 1870.
The now all professional Chicago White Stockings, financed by businessman William Hulbert, became a charter member of the league along with the Red Stockings, who had dissolved and moved to Boston.
The White Stockings were close contenders all season, despite the fact that the Great Chicago Fire had destroyed the team's home field and most of their equipment.
Originally, the award was known as the J. Louis Comiskey Memorial Award, named after the Chicago White Sox owner of the 1930s.
Sox had been previously adopted for the Chicago White Sox by newspapers needing a headline-friendly form of Stockings, as " Stockings Win!
In its first-ever home opener at Memorial Stadium later in the afternoon, they treated a sellout crowd of 46, 354 to a 3 – 1 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
The Orioles defeated the Chicago White Sox in the ALCS thanks to a 10th-inning homer by Tito Landrum in the deciding game.
The first, a pre-season match-up between the Chicago White Sox and Minnesota Twins, drew more than 51, 000 spectators.

Chicago and Sox
* 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
The name is often shortened to " Bosox " or " BoSox ," a combination of " Boston " and " Sox " ( similar to the " ChiSox " in Chicago or the minor league " PawSox " of Pawtucket ).
The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division.
The White Sox are one of two major league clubs based in Chicago, the other being the Chicago Cubs of the National League.

Chicago and 1894
In 1894 Dewey joined the newly founded University of Chicago ( 1894 – 1904 ) where he developed his belief in an empirically based theory of knowledge, becoming associated with the newly emerging Pragmatic philosophy.
By 1894, Dewey had joined Tufts, with whom he would later write Ethics ( 1908 ), at the recently founded University of Chicago and invited Mead and Angell to follow him, the four men forming the basis of the so-called " Chicago group " of psychology.
Strike action | Striking American Railway Union members confront Illinois Army National Guard | Illinois National Guard troops in Chicago, Illinois, during Debs ' Rebellion in 1894.
In 1895, the Chicago and Carbondale Railroad organized the purpose of laying tracks between the Illinois Central railroad at Carbondale with the new Chicago, Paducah and Memphis Railroad that had opened up in 1894 going through the central part of the county.
Also in 1894, Darrow took on the first murder case of his career, defending Patrick Eugene Prendergast, the " mentally deranged drifter " who had confessed to murdering Chicago mayor Carter H. Harrison, Sr .< ref name =" answers. com ">
The wheel itself closed in April 1894 and was then dismantled and stored until the following year, when it was rebuilt in the Lincoln Park, Chicago, neighborhood.
* 1893 – 1894 – Midway Plaisance, Chicago:
After graduating from the State Agricultural College ( now Michigan State University ), he attended law school at the University of Michigan in 1891 before launching his career as a journalist in 1892 with the Chicago News-Record, where he covered the Pullman Strike and Coxey's Army in 1894.
Pollard was born in Chicago on January 27, 1894.
Adler was not only an architect but also a gifted civil engineer who, with his partner Louis Sullivan, designed many buildings including influential skyscrapers that boldly addressed their steel skeleton through their exterior design: the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, New York, the Chicago Stock Exchange Building ( 1894 – 1972 ) and the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri.
* United States Strike Commission, Report on the Chicago strike of June – July, 1894( 1895 ), official government report full text online, interviews with many people on all sides, and summaries of what happened
A second incarnation was active in the Western League from 1894 to 1899, and became a forerunner of the modern Chicago White Sox.
He took an apprenticeship with the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad at the Logansport, Indiana shops, later transferring to Dennison, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio, where in 1891 he became Master Mechanic, then in 1894 Superintendent of Motive Power.
On the third Saturday in June 1894, a public school children ’ s celebration of Flag Day took place in Chicago at Douglas, Garfield, Humboldt, Lincoln, and Washington Parks.
In 1894 Mead moved, along with Dewey, to the University of Chicago, where he taught until his death.
The United States premiere with the Metropolitan Opera took place in Chicago on March 29, 1894, and then in the company's main house in New York City three weeks later.
While at Fort Sheridan the regiment played a vital role in containing the Chicago Railway Riots in July 1894.
Paul Boyton opened Paul Boyton's Water Chute, America's first modern amusement park, at 63rd and Drexel in Chicago, Illinois, on July 4, 1894.
But on July 4, 1894, Cleveland went ahead and sent several thousand troops to Chicago without Altgeld's approval, an action later upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court.
In 1894, the school was moved to Chicago, a move that upset some, including Skogsbergh.

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