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Brief History
The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. They play in the American League’s Central Division. The White Sox last won the World Series in 2005 when they played the Houston Astros and beat them in four games.
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The White Sox are one of two major league clubs based in Chicago, the other being the Chicago Cubs of the National League.
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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 1901. 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. The White Stockings first game was an 8-2 win over Cleveland on April 24, 1901. 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 post-season play.
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The White Sox next reached the top in 1906, with a team dubbed the “Hitless Wonders” for their paltry batting average of .230. No regular hit higher than .279 and no one came close to shortstop George Davis’ team-leading eighty runs batted in. What carried the day for this team was a wondrous pitching staff whose names may be forgotten by modern day fans, but were very familiar to hitters of their era. 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 nineteen game win streak in August (eight of the wins by shutout), and overall, won twenty-nine one-run games. 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. The Cubs had pillaged their way to one-hundred sixteen wins that year (a record that still stands) but averaged only 1.5 runs per game against Sox pitching.
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In 1917 the Sox won one-hundred games (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. No one at the time would have believed this would be their last championship in the 20th Century.
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Following the infamous “Black Sox” scandal of 1919, the Sox played dismal, second division baseball over the next three decades, becoming Chicago’s second team behind the Cubs. The best they could offer was the chance to see Hall of Fame players such as Luke Appling, one of the great hitting shortstops of all time, and pitcher Ted Lyons. However in 1959 the Sox ended a forty year pennant drought, the longest seen in either league. They lost the World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers in six games.
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The baseball gods seemed to be angry at the White Sox stained legacy of 1919. They denied the team a World Championship for eighty-eight years, the longest drought in the American League � then the year of redemption arrived. The drought was over. Echoing the sentiments in Boston during the previous season’s climax, generations of fans from all walks of life erupted in a jubilant celebration across the Windy City’s south side after a 2005 World Championship. It was a win for the ages and the nineteenth four-game sweep in World Series history that gave the franchise its first World Championship title since 1917.
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Since 1991, the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans.
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