Chicago White Sox Events

1906 Oct 9
to 1906 Oct 14
 1906 World Series
e 1906 World Series featured a crosstown matchup between the Chicago Cubs, who had posted the highest regular-season win total (116) and winning percentage (.763) in the major leagues sin...
1908 Oct 2 Addie Joss Pitches a Perfect Game
Addie Joss was born in the unincorporated community of Woodland in Dodge County, Wisconsin, where his father was a cheese maker. Several of his nicknames in baseball reflected this. As a ...
1917 Oct 6
to 1917 Oct 15
 1917 World Series
In the 1917 World Series, the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Giants four games to two. The Series was played against the backdrop of World War I, which dominated the American newspap...
1919 Oct 1
to 1919 Oct 9
 1919 World Series
The 1919 World Series matched the American League champion Chicago White Sox against the National League champion Cincinnati Reds. Although most World Series have been of the best-of-seve...
1919 Oct 1 1919 World Series, Game 1
The events of the series are often associated with the Black Sox Scandal, when several members of the Chicago franchise conspired with gamblers to throw World Series games. The first g...
1919 Oct 2 1919 World Series, Game 2
Although they had not received their money, the players were still willing to go through with the fix. "Lefty" Williams, the starting pitcher in Game 2, was not going to be as obvious as ...
1919 Oct 3 1919 World Series, Game 3
Rookie pitcher Dickie Kerr, who was to start Game 3 for the Sox, was not in on the plot to fix the series. The original plan was for the conspirators, who disliked Kerr, to lose this game...
1919 Oct 4 1919 World Series, Game 4
Cicotte was again Chicago's starter for the fourth game, and he was determined not to look as bad as he had in the first. For the first four innings he and Reds pitcher Jimmy Ring matched...
1919 Oct 6 1919 World Series, Game 5
The next game was delayed by rain for a day, and when it got under way, both Williams and Reds pitcher Hod Eller were excellent. By the sixth inning, neither had allowed a runner past fir...
1919 Oct 7 1919 World Series, Game 6
Game 6 was held back in Cincinnati. Dickie Kerr, starting for the White Sox, was not as dominant as in Game 3. Aided by three errors, the Reds jumped out to a 4–0 lead before Chicago foug...
1922 Apr 30 Charlie Robertson Pitches a Perfect Game
Charles Culbertson Robertson (January 31, 1896 – August 23, 1984) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. Born in Dexter, Texas, and grew up in Nocona, Texas graduating from ...
1942 Mar 18 Jackie Robinson tries out for the Chicago White Sox
Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland, two black players, ask the Chicago White Sox for a tryout. Manager Jimmy Dykes grants both players a workout, but neither will make the Sox' roster.
1959 Oct 1
to 1959 Oct 8
 1959 World Series
The 1959 World Series featured the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers beating the American League champion Chicago White Sox, four games to two. It was the first pennant for the...
1979 Jul 12 Promotional "Disco Demolition Night" Devolves into Riot at Comiskey Park
Popular Chicago disc jockey Steve Dahl had been fired from local radio station WDAI when its programming shifted from album-oriented rock to an all-disco format. Dahl was subsequently hir...
1993 The Chicago White Sox Draft Carey Schueler the First Woman Drafted in MLB
Carey Schueler, daughter of then Chicago White Sox General Manager Ron Schueler, was the first woman ever drafted by a Major League Baseball team when the White Sox picked the 18-year old...
1994 Mar 31 Michael Jordan Enters the Chicago White Sox Minor League System
In his 1998 autobiography For the Love of the Game, Jordan wrote that he had been preparing for retirement as early as the summer of 1992. The added exhaustion due to the Dream Team run i...
2004 Aug 13 Chicago White Sox defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-7
Winning streak or not, Kevin Millar usually finds a way to keep things light in the Red Sox clubhouse, as he did before last night's game by grabbing a set of boxing gloves from Ellis Bur...
2004 Aug 14 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 4-3
Family Day in the Fens means fun and games to most folks. Players toddle around the bases with wide-eyed kids. Mothers beam. Children smile. All is bliss on the sun-splashed emerald lawn....
2004 Aug 15 Chicago White Sox defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-4
It's a case he could have made more convincingly with something other than a half-swing tapper to the pitcher for the final out of yet another in a seemingly endless series of one-run los...
2004 Aug 20 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 10-1
2004 Aug 21 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 10-7
CHICAGO -- This national TV stuff, Terry Francona still has some work to do. "I showed up for the wrong inning," said the Red Sox manager, who had been lined up to do a between-innings in...
2004 Aug 22 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 6-5
CHICAGO -- The baseball gods appeared to smile on the Red Sox last night as they opened the finale of their weekend series in the Windy City. The Rangers already had lost to the Royals, g...
2005 Jul 21 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 6-5
CHICAGO -- Alone with his thoughts? Hardly. After White Sox third baseman Joe Crede dropped Manny Ramirez's pop fly near the third base railing in the ninth inning last night, you could h...
2005 Jul 22 Chicago White Sox defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-4
CHICAGO -- Momentum, Terry Francona likes to say, is the following night's starting pitcher. And so, a night after Manny Ramirez drove a stake through the hearts of Joe Crede and the 36,7...
2005 Jul 23 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 3-0
CHICAGO -- The ball skipped up the middle, and Scott Podsednik -- a burner with 18 more stolen bases than anyone else in baseball -- was aboard to begin Wade Miller's night. The next batt...
2005 Jul 24 Chicago White Sox defeat Boston Red Sox, 6-4
CHICAGO -- Matt Clement pitched three full summers for the Cubs and lived in downtown Chicago all that time. And yet, Clement said last night, ''Three of my top 10 hottest days in Chicago...
2005 Aug 12 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 9-8
The Red Sox are a special team at Fenway Park, and not even White Sox ace Mark Buehrle could prevent the local nine from winning its 12th in a row at home. The Chicago lefthander came ...
2005 Aug 13 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 7-4
Maybe it was just the wrong time to ask whether the Red Sox are the best team the White Sox have faced this season. After all, with the best record in baseball, perhaps it takes a lot to ...
2005 Sep 5 Chicago White Sox defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-3
Again Curt Schilling went to the mound, and again he walked off haunted by the apparition of Schilling past and perplexed by the incarnation of Schilling present. Yes, yesterday's 5-3 ...
2005 Oct 4 Chicago White Sox defeat Boston Red Sox, 14-2
CHICAGO -- It must have felt like a road to perdition, that walk, from the mound to the dugout, the scoreboard behind Matt Clement reading 8-2 in the White Sox half of the fourth inning, ...
2005 Oct 5 Chicago White Sox defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-4
CHICAGO -- They've been tested before, these cartoon characters from Yawkey Way. Over the last three years, the Red Sox have routinely performed magic while feeling the love of our region...
2005 Oct 7 Chicago White Sox defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-3
No books on the 2005 Red Sox. No major motion pictures, no ESPY Awards, and none of those corny Christmas card photos of your neighbor standing next to the World Series trophy. In the ...
2005 Oct 22
to 2005 Oct 26
 2005 World Series
2005 World Series 2005 will always be remembered as "The year of redemption in the Windy City." That was the season in which the Chicago White Sox shocked the baseball world after winn...
2005 Oct 23 2005 World Series - Game 2
Even though we are Cubs fans, my wife and I decided to go to the White Sox - Astros World Series, thinking "as Chicagoans, we may never get this opportunity again." It was a cold and dr...
2005 Oct 28 White Sox World Series Ticker Tape Parade
There were about 100,000 people at the ticker tape parade for the White Sox after winning the 2005 World Series in a 4-0 sweep of the Houston Astros. Bob Armour, Bill McCarthy and I walke...
2006 Jul 7 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 7-2
CHICAGO -- Ozzie's All-Stars proved no match last night for Big Papi and the Kid. The Chicago White Sox, a team stocked with seven All-Stars, including last night's starter, Mark Buehr...
2006 Jul 8 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 9-6
CHICAGO -- Morning having broken long before David Ortiz was prepared for it, the Red Sox slugger showed up for work yesterday and told his boss that he dreamed he'd overslept and that Te...
2006 Jul 9 Chicago White Sox defeat Boston Red Sox, 6-5
CHICAGO -- If this was supposed to be a bad moon rising on the Red Sox as the first half of the season came to a close, the tangerine-colored full moon that rose over U.S. Cellular Field ...
2006 Sep 4 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 3-2
The winningest pitcher in the American League since the start of the 2005 season isn't Johan Santana or Roy Halladay or Mike Mussina. It's Jon Garland. Pitching for the Chicago White S...
2006 Sep 5 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 1-0
One night it's Julian Tavarez, the reliever turned emergency starter. The next, it's Kason Gabbard, a lefthander who began the season in Double A, had lost all three big-league decisions ...
2006 Sep 6 Chicago White Sox defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-1
Maybe Julian Tavarez isn't so bad after all. The embattled reliever, who has been the target of boos this season, set the tone for the Red Sox' series with the Chicago White Sox by shu...
2007 Jul 2 Baltimore Orioles defeat Chicago White Sox, 7-6
CHICAGO -- Interim manager Dave Trembley sent the message even before Corey Patterson led off the ninth inning with his fourth hit, a double off All-Star closer Bobby Jenks that made a on...
2007 Jul 3 Chicago White Sox defeat Baltimore Orioles, 5-1
CHICAGO -- No matter how many pitches Daniel Cabrera threw in the first three innings, his outing still was salvageable when Tadahito Iguchi came to the plate with a man on third and two ...
2007 Jul 4 Baltimore Orioles defeat Chicago White Sox, 9-6
CHICAGO -- It was a moment where sentiment could have easily prevailed over judgment. Garrett Olson had overcome nerves and 10 base runners just to get to this point, where he was two out...
2007 Jul 5 Chicago White Sox defeat Baltimore Orioles, 11-6
CHICAGO -- His performances had been mostly overshadowed by the emergence of Jeremy Guthrie, but as far as pleasant surprises are concerned, Brian Burres takes a back seat to no one on th...
2007 Jul 12 Chicago White Sox defeat Baltimore Orioles, 9-7
The season's second half began yesterday with a speech from Orioles interim manager Dave Trembley before batting practice that was delivered in right field and concluded with his players ...
2007 Jul 14 Baltimore Orioles defeat Chicago White Sox, 7-6
Patterson's run Corey Patterson struck out his first three times at bat, but what he did in the 10th inning made up for it. Patterson led off by singling up the middle. After stealing ...
2007 Jul 15 Baltimore Orioles defeat Chicago White Sox, 5-3
Markakis heats up Nick Markakis continued his hot hitting, going 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI double. The right fielder had three hits in Saturday's game, including the game-winning s...
2007 Jul 19 Chicago White Sox defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-2
Red Sox fan and Brookline native Conan O'Brien was in the on-deck circle by the time last night's game lurched into the bottom of the ninth, rain having delayed the start until 9:01. B...
2007 Jul 20 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 10-3
Amid booing by the locals, David Ortiz, Manny Ramírez, and Mike Lowell stood near the Red Sox on-deck circle. Ramírez, just thrown out at the plate after Ortiz crossed it, started to walk...