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137 Seasons of the Chicago White Sox

 World Series

  Champions

Pennants

A.L. West/Central Division Titles

1906
1917
2005

1900
1901
1906
      2005

1983
1993
2000
2005
2008
2021

American League Wild Card

2020

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.  

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.  

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, two periods of Bill Veeck ownership (he of the infamous Disco Demolition Night promotion debacle), shorts in  1976 and a 41-121 record in 2024.      

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. 

Cy Young Award

Winners

1959 - Early Wynn

1983 - LaMarr Hoyt

1993 - Jack McDowell

Rookies of the Year

1956 - Luis Aparicio

1963 - Gary Peters

1966 - Tommie Agee

1983 - Ron Kittle

1985 - Ozzie Guillen

2014 - Jose Abreu

1917
1919
1959

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MVP Award

Winners

1959 - Nellie Fox

1972 - Dick Allen

1993 - Frank Thomas

1994 - Frank Thomas

2020 - Jose Abreu 

Managers of the Year

1983 - Tony La Russa

1990 - Jeff Torborg

1993 - Gene Lamont

2000 - Jerry Manuel

2005 - Ozzie Guillen

1891   1894

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Evans Park, Sioux City, IA

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Lexington Park, St. Paul, MN

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Southside Park - 1900-1910

Comiskey Park - 1910-1990

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 Comiskey Park - 1991-Present (U.S. Cellular Field, 2003-2015, Guaranteed Rate Field, 2017-present)

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Note: Dates given are the individual's total years with the club, and not necessarily only the years they were most prominent. 

The 1894 Sioux City Cornhuskers

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The 1896 St. Paul Saints

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Charles Comiskey had played for the old St. Louis Brown Stockings of the American Association in the 1880s, and later was brought in by Ban Johnson to purchase the Sioux City club and move it to St. Paul.  He owned the White Sox from their arrival in Chicago in 1900 until his death in 1931.  Apart from Ban Johnson, no other man had as much influence over the American League during the first two decades of the 20th century.  Once fast friends, the two were not even on speaking terms when the 1919 World Series reared its head; their inability to communicate made a bad situation worse.  

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The fix began, all seem to agree, with Chick Gandil.   Ed Cicotte, Fred McMullen, Swede Risberg, Hap Felsch, Lefty Williams, Buck Weaver and Joe Jackson all participated, or at least were aware of what was going on.  It's clear today that some received money, others received none; some took steps to hurt the Sox in the field, and others did not.  Weaver and Jackson were most vocal in protesting their innocence of any active participation in the scheme, but were nonetheless thrown out of baseball by Judge Landis, with their 6 teammates, for having known about what was happening and doing nothing to report it.  

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Luis Aparicio, Sherm Lollar and Nellie Fox lead the surprising and exciting Go-Go Sox of 1959 to an unexpected A.L. Pennant. 

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The ChiSox have gone through numerous uniform changes over the years, but there was nothing like the 1970s....

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August, 1976: Shorts. 

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July 12, 1979: Disco Demolition Night - they were picking pieces of LPs out of the turf for weeks after.  

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October 26, 2005 - After almost 90 years of trying, the Sox make it back to the top. 

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White Sox No-Hitters:

August 20, 1898 - Bill Phyle, 12-0 over Milwaukee 

September 20, 1902 - Nixey Callahan, 3-0 over Detroit

September 6, 1905 - Frank Smith, 15-0 over Detroit

September 20, 1908 - Frank Smith, 1-0 over Philadelphia

August 27, 1911 - Ed Walsh, 5-0 over Boston

May 31, 1914 - Joe Benz, 6-1 over Cleveland

April 14, 1917 - Ed Cicotte, 11-0 over St. Louis

April 30, 1922 - Charlie Robertson, 2-0 over Detroit (Perfect Game)

August 21, 1926 - Ted Lyons, 6-0 over Boston

August 31, 1935 - Vern Kennedy, 5-0 over Cleveland

June 1, 1937 - Bill Dietrich, 8-0 over St. Louis

August 20, 1957 - Joe Keegan, 6-0 over Washington

September 10, 1967 - Joe Horlen, 6-0 over Detroit

July 28, 1976 - John Odom (5) and Francisco Barrios (4), 2-1 over Oakland

September 19, 1986 - Joe Cowley, 7-1 over California

August 11, 1991 - Wilson Alvarez, 7-0 over Baltimore

April 18, 2007 - Mark Buehrle, 6-0 over Texas

July 23, 2009 - Mark Buehrle, 5-0 over Tampa Bay (Perfect Game)

April 21, 2012 - Philip Humber, 4-0 over Seattle (Perfect Game)

8/25/20 - Lucas Giolito, 4-0 over Pittsburgh

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