Unrivaled in its depiction of Chicago's downtrodden, the essay recounts the repeated ways Chicago sells out its dreams and disappoints its dreamers, including the 1919 Black Sox scandal, in which eight Chicago White Sox players were accused of accepting bribes to throw the world series.
Chicago White Sox C A.J. Pierzynski stated that playing this game has helped him better recognize pitches while batting.
1995 "Rock with the Sox" (White Sox theme), American Breed (engineered, produced, lead vocals)
J.T. made a guest appearance on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch on June 26, 2006, to discuss the feud between Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti, and Chicago White Sox skipper Ozzie Guillén.
He ranked fourth among Chicago White Sox farmhands in average and sixth in slugging percentage.
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Cruz was the MVP of the 2006 NCAA Division II College World Series, was considered quite an acquisition by the Chicago White Sox for a 10th-round draft pick (315th overall) in 2006.
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Cruz made his professional debut at Rookie-level for the Kannapolis Intimidators in the South Atlantic League (A) for the Chicago White Sox farm system in 2007, hitting .301 (81-for-269) with 17 doubles, six triples, five home runs and 39 RBIs.
He relocated to Chicago around 1914, and tried out unsuccessfully as a catcher for the Chicago White Sox baseball team before starting work as a grocery salesman.
After finishing college, Reid was drafted and played professionally, as a shortstop, for both the Atlanta Braves and Chicago White Sox minor league farm systems over four seasons (eventually playing at the AAA level).
Scott Reifert is the vice president of communications for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball.
In celebration of the 2005 baseball championship of the Chicago White Sox, the American Breed issued a CD single entitled "Rock with the Sox."
Chicago White Sox, a Major League Baseball team in Chicago, Illinois
Un-D-Nyable Entertainment is a record label founded by Frank Thomas (“The Big Hurt”), the star player and home run hitter of the Chicago White Sox.
Lardner was a sportswriter who moved to Chicago in 1907, where he covered the Cubs and White Sox for several city newspapers, most notably the Chicago Tribune.
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The 1908 season was the ninth in Chicago White Sox history and its eighth as a major league team.
In March 1964, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that then Chicago White Sox owner Arthur Allyn, Jr. planned to purchase the Broncos and move the franchise to Chicago where they would play at Comiskey Park.
Having a surplus of catchers in 1948 with Berra, Sherm Lollar and Gus Niarhos, the Yankees decided to trade Robinson along with Fred Bradley and Bill Wight to the Chicago White Sox for Eddie Lopat in February of that year.
Upcoming Cactus League projects include a stadium in Goodyear for the Cleveland Indians and a stadium in Glendale for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago White Sox.
A right-handed hitting and throwing outfielder, he rose quickly to the major league level as player, when he was called up to the Chicago White Sox in 1931 after hitting .366 in the Class C Western Association.
Hobert was also drafted in the 16th round (453rd overall) of the 1993 Major League Baseball Draft by the Chicago White Sox but choose to seek a career in the NFL.
Hector Santiago (born 1987; class of 2006), starting pitcher for Chicago White Sox.
Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers also sang the 1959 Chicago White Sox fight song, "Let's Go, Go-Go White Sox", and Tom Fouts was the voice of Green Giant's Little Sprout.
Midway through his fourth season in Oakland's farm system, Lemon was dealt to the Chicago White Sox with Dave Hamilton for Stan Bahnsen and Skip Pitlock.
Before the 1967 season, he was sent by St. Louis along with Walt Williams to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for Johnny Romano and a minor leaguer, but he never appeared in the majors for Chicago.
Much-traveled (and frequently traded), he would play in the American League for five seasons (1950–1954) for the Browns (twice), Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox (twice), Detroit Tigers, and the Baltimore Orioles (where as a transplanted St. Louis Brown he was a member of the first modern Baltimore MLB team in 1954).
Asinof's most famous book, Eight Men Out, painstakingly reconstructed the events of the Black Sox scandal that marred the World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds in the same year that Asinof was born.
At the end of the 1948 season, on December 2, the Indians traded Groth to the Chicago White Sox along with Bob Kuzava for Frank Papish.
On December 18, 1929, Trafton took part in a boxing match against Chicago White Sox player Art Shires.
Glen Otis Rosenbaum (born June 14, 1936, at Union Mills, Indiana) is a retired American professional baseball player, coach, and front-office official who spent four decades as a member of the Chicago White Sox organization.
Hatton batted .254 with 91 home runs in a 12-year big league career with Cincinnati, the Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles and Chicago Cubs, for whom he served as a player-coach in 1960 at the end of his playing career.
He worked the only opening-day no-hitter in MLB history on April 16, 1940, thrown by Bob Gibson against the Chicago White Sox.
Jack's younger brother, Matt Cassel, is an American football player with the Minnesota Vikings, and his other younger brother, Justin Cassel, is a minor league baseball player in the farm system of the Chicago White Sox.
Gerald Smith "Jerry" Nyman (born November 23, 1942 in Logan, Utah) is a former left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1968 to 1970 for the Chicago White Sox and San Diego Padres.
He was first called "Jim" when he was 17, "Big Jim" when he started playing for the Chicago White Sox during the 1952 season, and then "Jungle Jim" in 1953 which was initiated by a Chicago Sun-Times sports writer.
That same day, the Athletics traded Pasek, along with George Earnshaw to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for Charlie Berry and $20,000.
Tartabull is well remembered by Red Sox fans for throwing out the Chicago White Sox' Ken Berry at home plate on August 27, 1967, to win a key game during the 1967 American League pennant drive.
Drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 3rd round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft out of Louisburg College, Rupe was acquired by the Texas Rangers along with Frank Francisco and minor leaguer Anthony Webster to complete an earlier trade for Carl Everett in July 2003.
Farrell in his playing days was a first baseman and veteran minor-leaguer who played two full MLB seasons during the World War II manpower shortage, with the 1943 Boston Braves and the 1945 Chicago White Sox, batting .262 with no home runs and 55 runs batted in.
He was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 23rd round of the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft, but did not sign and attended Florida State University.
The network began in April 1982 as Sportsvision, a joint venture between then-new owner Chicago Bulls and White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, his fellow White Sox co-owner, television sports producer and promoter Eddie Einhorn, and Fred Eychaner, then-owner of local UHF station WPWR (then on Channel 60, now Channel 50).
Hollowell was also the first base umpire in a September 19, 2002, game between the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals.
Morgan was tied with National Hockey League player Mike Sillinger and MLB pitcher Matt Skrmetta for the most teams played for in any North American professional sport through June 2006, when Skrmetta signed with the Chicago White Sox, his 24th professional team and 13th organization.
Dave Gallagher (born 1960) Major League Baseball player who played 9 years in Major League Baseball for teams including the New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles, Anaheim Angels, Chicago White Sox, and Cleveland Indians.
Sportsvision was a subscription TV service founded by Chicago White Sox owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn, and media mogul Fred Eychaner.
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.
At the end of the 1954 season, Gray was traded to the Chicago White Sox with Walt Dropo.
Veeck was also the father of Bill Veeck, who is best known for his time at the reins of the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians, and for sending the midget Eddie Gaedel to bat while owning the St. Louis Browns.
Eychaner signed on WPWR-TV, with a large percentage of its broadcast schedule dedicated to a new subscription television service called Sportsvision that was part of ONTV, which Eychaner had developed in a deal with Chicago White Sox owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn.