The Chicago White Sox were a charter member of today's American League, but their history actually goes back a number of years before Ban Johnson made the jump to Major League mogul in 1901.  

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Today's ChiSox can trace their roots to the Sioux City Cornhuskers, a team which began play in the minor Western Association in 1888.  After the 1891 season, which saw them win the league pennant, a combination of bad financial luck and a devastating flood in 1892 rendered them unable to field a team in 1892 or 1893 (the league itself could only muster a partial season during 1893 due to financial woes).  Reactivated for 1894, they again won the pennant.  That was the same year Ban Johnson purchased the circuit and rechristened it the Western League. 

Wanting to expand into new markets, Johnson moved the club to St. Paul for 1895, where the played alternatively as the Saints and the Apostles thought 1899.  When Johnson renamed the circuit the American League in 1900, with the knowledge he'd begin play as a major league the next year, he again moved the team, this time to Chicago where it was renamed the White Stockings, in reference to the old National League club of the same name.  When the American League went major in 1901, the club more or less officially adopted the name White Sox.  

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Chicago was one of the more successful clubs in the A.L. out of the gate, winning World Series in 1906 and 1917.  Then came 1919.  The White Sox bear the legacy of being the only franchise in the history of the professional game known to have thrown games at the championship level.  Their history since that time has been marked by extended periods on the lower end of mediocrity, punctuated by brief spurts of competitiveness, and two periods of Bill Veeck ownership (he of the infamous Disco Demolition Night promotion debacle). Oh, and they wore shorts in 1976.     

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The main purpose of this page is to illustrate those players, managers and coaches who have been the most prominent in the franchise's history.  Links below will take you to galleries highlighting each, by position.  Generally, an individual is included if he spent at least 2 full seasons (consecutive or cumulative) as a starter, relief pitcher, closer or manager. For coaches, I've generally used 5 years of service as the bar.  None of this is scientific, though, so there are exceptions.  Where possible and practical, I used pictures of actual baseball cards because that it is the medium through which I, and I suppose many others, first discovered the game. Where necessary, I designed my own images.  Images of actual baseball cards were obtained at the Card Cyber Museum, and for my own designs I used photos found at host of different sites, but none moreso than the wonderful forum at Out of the Park Developments.  

I claim no rights to, or ownership of, any of the photographic images I've used on these pages.   You are welcome to use them yourself.  All I ask is that that if you use any of my personal creations, you give credit to this site.