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QUOTE (Heads22 @ Aug 11, 2008 -> 07:36 PM) Probably doesn't help them when Young is putting up comparable numbers to Anderson. I'd take him back.

37. Ron Kittle (5 of 27 lists - 64 points - highest ranking #4 southsider2k5) bio by southsider2k5 - Ron Kittle exploded onto the Chicago baseball scene in 1983. The son of a Gary steelworker, Kitty earned his way to the big leagues by bashing 40 and then 50 homers in his last two minor league stops before hitting for the Sox. Ron was one of the most powerful players on an exciting 1983 AL West division winning team. Kittle's rookie year of 1983 nearly had him breaking the old MLB record for home runs as a rookie of 37, which would stand until Mark McGwire hit the majors years later. He finished that season with 35 homers and a 100 rbis. That would be his best career year, as back problems and pitchers exploiting his all or nothing swing would eventually do him in. As a member of the Sox, he would finish with 140 homers, which still sits as the 9th highest total in White Sox franchise history, when he left the Sox for good, he trailed only Bill Melton. Kittle will go down in history as the man who holds the all-time record for "Roof-Shots" at the Old Comiskey Park, hitting seven in his short time on the southside. Personally, I became a Kittle fan at age 9. For a few years as a child, my family lived in Houston. To get our fix of White Sox baseball, my dad would plan trips up to Arlington to see the White Sox play the Rangers when they were up there. During our 1983 trip there was a small group playing pepper in the left field corner. They kept hitting the balls a little too hard and they would eventually carry into the stands, where everyone kept poucing on them. Between my dad and I, we had gotten 3 different baseballs. Eventually Ron Kittle comes walking up to the stands, asking if he can have some of them back. Kitty orginally offered to give a ball back after he was done autographed. My dad managed to get him to agree to the signed balls, plus taking a picture with me. They finished up the pepper game and quickly obliged on his end of the deal. The autographed baseballs still sit in my collection 25 years later, and the picture, which Kitty autographed a year later in Chicago, still sits on my dads mantle. Please feel free to comment with any more info and favorite stories about this player or any other in this list.

He's not famous enough. There will be another!!!! :uhoh Too morbid?

38. Nellie Fox (5 of 27 lists - 60 points - highest ranking #4 BigEdWalsh) bio by Texsox - Nellie was the toughest out for me. In 12 years I struck him out once, and I think the umpire blew the call. - New York Yankees Hall of Fame pitcher Whitey Ford When fans start discussing the best White Sox players of all time, Hall of Famer Nellie Fox has got to be in the conversation. I am too young to remember Fox’s last seasons with the Sox but I do remember conversations about him and both his slick fielding and great hitting. Whenever conversations turned to the 1959 World Series, people would say we needed one or two more people to have stepped up like Fox. He batted .306 and won a Gold Glove during the regular season but kicked it up a notch during the World Series to lead the team in batting with a .375 average and three doubles. During the 50s and 60s the Sox were renowned for their defense and nowhere was it more solid then up the middle. Nellie played second alongside Venezuelans Chico Carrasquel (1950-55) and Hall-of-Famer Luis Aparicio (1956-62). That’s small ball, having two Hall of Famers, one at second and the other at shortstop. That makes it really tough to get balls up the middle on those guys. Fox was also impossible to strike out, his average of striking out once every 42 times at the plate would mean he struck out about once every couple weeks. I could go on, but just look at this list . . . * The first White Sox player elected MVP of the American League. * Only 216 career strikeouts in over 9,200 at-bats: the 3rd best percentage in MLB history. * Set the record for consecutive games played at second base, with 798. * 12-time All-Star. * 3-time Gold Glove Award winner. * Held American League record for most double plays by a second baseman; second-most in the majors after Bill Mazeroski. * Between 1959 and 1960 the Aparicio-Fox duo won twice Gold Gloves, starting a select list of eight shortstop-second baseman combinations have won the honor in the same season while playing together. * A life-sized bronze statue of him was unveiled at U.S. Cellular Field in 2006. His No. 2 uniform also was retired by the White Sox. Did I mention that at 5’9” most Scouts today would have passed him over? Please feel free to comment with any more info and favorite stories about this player or any other in this list.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 10, 2008 -> 10:33 PM) even during his struggles, he was still a better than league average player. People just hate on Jim because God IV was traded to get him. Who's God II & III? Frank Thomas and Carlos Quentin?

Mebbe we'll put sumpin togetter this week.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Aug 10, 2008 -> 06:53 PM) Me too. Do we have any other players like Andy Gonzalez where the Indians would be interested in them and Sox fans would love to see them go? 9/10ths of our minors.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Aug 10, 2008 -> 07:55 PM) what a weak list so far. Says the guy who never sent in a list. This is "favorite", not "best". Willie Harris could be #5 for all you know. People love the pinch hitter and utility infielder. They love the underdog.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 10, 2008 -> 07:10 PM) I fixed it for you. No s***. They're dumping baseball and softball but keeping synchronized swimming, ballroom dancing, floor exercise and trampolining. Disgraceful.

L. Ron Hubbard and the dead aliens are meeting him at the great pyramid.

Slap Shot, The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke...

Iz it foolsbawl time again?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 10, 2008 -> 06:50 PM) When the most you give up are guys that are 5th starters in the NL, you did pretty damn well for a completely terrible deal. Yeah. They all did the Pittsburgh-Colorado-St Louis tour of pitching mediocrity.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Aug 10, 2008 -> 06:49 PM) Samuel L. Jackson. NOOOOO I'M TIRED OF THIS MOTHERFUKIN DEATH KILLIN OFF MY MUTHERFUKIN FRIENDS!

Funny. The Ritchie trade turned into something pretty non-earth shattering. Wells, Fogg and Lowe all ended up sucking in the end.

Washburn would be a fair #4/5. We'd be set for 2009 then too. No more prospect trading.

AND THAT'S A ROYALLY AWESOME WINNER!

YAY!

They seem to always come in threes. Who's next?

I hope that someone buys a brick at the Cell for him.

KC might actually win this thing...

Damn Royals.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Aug 10, 2008 -> 04:06 PM) The Royals scored 2 in the 6th to tie it against the Twins, then they give a run right up so it's now 3-2 Twins. 4-2 MIN w/bases loaded

Damn Twins... Damn Royals... Damn Red Sox... Damn Sox pitching...