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THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: SEPTEMBER 18TH 1925: Dickie Kerr made the final start of his short and short-circuited career in the White Sox 11-6 loss at Washington. Kerr, a left-hander, won 13 games as a rookie for the 1919 White Sox and was untouched by the scandal that befell team in the World Series that year. In two starts in that fixed Fall Classic, Kerr was 2-0 with a 1.42 ERA and one shutout. The St. Louis native won 21 games in 1920 and 19 games in 1921 before a contract squabble essentially ended his career. Following the 1921 season, Kerr asked Charles Comiskey for a $500 raise but was turned down. Kerr then left the Sox to play “outlaw ball” and for that he was suspended by Commissioner Keensaw Landis. The suspension was lifted after four years and after Kerr had played one season with an “accredited” minor league team. Kerr returned to the White Sox on Aug. 15, 1925. The loss on this day was part of 12 mostly ineffective appearances. After the season, Kerr was sold to a minor league career and then embarked on a coaching career where he crossed paths with Stan Musial. 1971: Carlos May recorded the final inside-the-park grand slam by a White Sox player at Comiskey Park in a 5-1 win over the Angels before 4,612 at 35th and Shields. May victimized the Angels’ Tom Murphy in the first inning for the fourth in-the-park grand slam by a Sox player at Comiskey Park. He joined Bill Barrett (Aug. 4, 1926), Bud Clancy (July 15, 1927) and Ferris Fain (June 16, 1954) as the Sox players to accomplish the feat at home. 1979: Ken Kravec pitched 10 shutout innings and was rewarded with a win when Thad Bosley’s single scored Alan Bannister to give the White Sox a 1-0 win before 5,196 at Comiskey Park. Kravec took a no-hitter into the eighth and wound up giving up just three hits for his 13th win. 1983: There was no let down for the American League West champions. The day after they clinched their first American League West title, the Sox whitewashed Seattle 6-0 before a crowd of 40,984 at Comiskey Park. Prior to the game, White Sox veteran Mike Squires helped hoist the American League West title flag above Comiskey Park. Richard Dotson went the distance for his 20th win. The victory made the 24-year-old Dotson the second youngest pitcher in Sox history to win 20 games in a season and the youngest to reach that plateau in 70 years. 2001: In the first game after the Sept. 11 attacks, the White Sox fell to the New York Yankees 11-3 before an emotional gathering of 22,785 at Comiskey Park. Many of the fans on hand carried or displayed American flags and they were treated to a pregame ceremony that included members of the Chicago Fire Department and a color guard with representatives from each wing of the Armed Forces. The attacks forced postponement of the Sox three game series in New York (Sept. 11-13) and Minnesota (Sept. 14-16).

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: SEPT 17 1906: One of the great White Sox careers begins against the White Sox. Playing under the name “Sullivan,” future Hall of Famer Eddie Collins, then a junior at Columbia University, debuted at shortstop for the Philadelphia Athletics in their 5-4 loss to the White Sox at South Side Park. Collins, who would play for the Sox from 1915 to 1930, got one hit off Ed Walsh and struck out twice as the Sox maintained their one game lead atop the American League. Walsh struck out 12 in outdueling future fellow Hall of Famer Rube Waddell. 1910: The White Sox used a triple steal in the first inning in beating the Red Sox 4-3 at Comiskey Park. Felix Chouinard, Shano Collins and Fred Payne execute the triple steal as the White Sox extended their winning streak (that would eventually reach nine) to three. 1916: Boston’s Babe Ruth’s treated a Chicago-record crowd of 40,000 to his 20th victory as the Red Sox beat the White Sox 6-2. Ruth outdueled future fellow Hall of Famer Red Faber. 1920: The White Sox tied an American League record with six triples in defeating New York 6-4 at Comiskey Park. Eddie Collins, Joe Jackson and Hap Felsch tripled in the first inning in support of winning pitcher Red Faber. The third-place Sox won for the second consecutive day in a streak that would eventually reach seven. 1938: Reserve outfielder Merv Connors socked three consecutive home runs and a double as the White Sox capped a sweep with an 7-4 win over Philadelphia in Game 2 of a doubleheader at Comiskey Park. Connors became just the second player in franchise history to accomplish the feat and the first since Carl Reynolds did it on July 2, 1930. The three homers accounted for all but five of Connors’ career roundtrippers. Ted Lyons got the win in the 8-4 win in the opener while Jack Knott was the victor in the nightcap. 1944: The White Sox Joe Haynes became the first American League pitcher in 21 years to steal home in an 8-2 win over St. Louis in Game 2 of a doubleheader against the Browns in St. Louis. The Sox worked double steals in the seventh and eighth innings with Haynes’ theft coming in the eighth. 1983: Harold Baines' ninth-inning sacrifice fly scored Julio Cruz with the winning run as the White Sox clinched the American League West title with a 4-3 win over Seattle before 45,646 at Comiskey Park. The victory was the White Sox 16th in a row at home and put them in the postseason for the first time since their pennant-winning season of 1959.

1972: Dick Allen’s two-run homer off Nolan Ryan delivered the White Sox a 2-0 win at California. Allen’s blast came with two out in the fifth and made a winner out of Stan Bahnsen, who gave up eight hits in eight innings for his 19th win. Terry Forster tossed a clean ninth for his 25th save. 1978: Francisco Barrios tossed a one-hitter in the White Sox 9-1 win at Seattle. Barrios no-hit the Mariners through five before Julio Cruz led off the sixth with a single. Barrios finished with three walks and two strikeouts for his ninth win. 1979: Rookie Richard Dotson turned in his second straight strong start in the White Sox 5-2 win over Oakland before 11,849 at Comiskey Park. A week after blanking Oakland on six hits in his second career start, Dotson surrendered two unearned runs on two hits with four strikeouts in seven innings to improve to 2-0. 1983: Floyd Bannister continued his second half hot streak as the White Sox clinched at least a share of the AL West title by blanking Seattle 7-0 before 38,502 at Comiskey Park. “Banny” fanned 12 and allowed just two hits in the complete game effort for his 15th win.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: SEPT 14 www.whitesoxalmanac.com/ ENJOY! 1997: The White Sox retired Carlton Fisk’s No. 72 in a pre-game ceremony at Comiskey Park. Fisk, who would be elected into the Hall of Fame in 2000, became the eighth player in franchise history to have his number retired. He joined Nellie Fox (2), Harold Baines (3), Luke Appling (4), Minnie Minoso (9), Luis Aparicio (11), Ted Lyons (16) and Billy Pierce (19) in the elite club. … The game didn’t go so well. The Sox lost to the Indians 8-3. The Sox tied a Major League record by using nine pitchers in a nine-inning game, including five in the eighth. 1998: The visiting White Sox outlasted Detroit 17-16 in a game that lasted 12 innings and 5 hours 12 minutes and featured 41 hits and a Major League record tying 18 pitchers in an extra-inning game. Ray Durham and Craig Wilson hit back-to-back homers in the 12th inning to decide the game. Wilson had five hits and five RBIs while Albert Belle had five RBIs for the Sox. 2002: On this date, the White Sox, Danny Wright, Joe Crede and Jeff Liefer were better than the mighty Yankees and the great Roger Clemens. Crede and Liefer hit back-to-homers off Clemens in the fifth and Wright outdueled the Rocket with seven strong innings in the Sox 8-1 win at Yankee Stadium. 2004: For the second consecutive day, US Cellular Field hosted the Florida Marlins and Montreal Expos and for the second consecutive day, the Marlins won. MLB moved the games to US Cellular Field because of Hurricane Ivan on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The Marlins concluded the series with an 8-6 win over the Montreal Expos before 5,457 in a matinee game. The games were the first NL contests in an AL park in 48 years and also helped the Marlins and Expos set a big league record by playing a game in 21 different stadiums during a season.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: SEPTEMBER 13TH 1967: Rocky Colavito’s single in the 17th scored Buddy Bradford as the White Sox pulled out a grueling 1-0 win before 9,928 at Comiskey Park. The win, which stopped a three-game losing streak, kept the fourth-place Sox within three games of the lead in the tightly-packed AL pennant race. The game was the longest 1-0 victory in White Sox history and tied for the 11th longest game (by innings) in team annals. In the 17th, Bradford pinch-ran for Ken Boyer, who had singled with one out. After a passed ball and an intentional walk, Colavito ended the 4 hour and 32 minute affair with a single to right off Bobby Tiefenauer. Gary Peters started the game and gave up one hit (in the second) and 10 walks with seven strikeouts in 11 innings. He gave way to Bob Locker, who pitched two innings, and Roger Nelson, who pitched three frames, before Don McMahon came on and pitched the 17th to get the win. The hurling quartet was backed by a defense that turned four double plays and catcher Duane Josephson, who went the distance, threw out three runners trying to steal. 1985: Joe DeSa’s pinch-hit grand slam – just the eighth in club history -- in the ninth inning helped the White Sox top the Mariners 6-1 in Seattle. DeSa’s slam came one batter after Julio Cruz had given the White Sox the lead with a single. DeSa’s pinch-hit slam was the first by a Sox player since Buddy Bradford did it on Oct. 2, 1972 and his slam was the first by a Sox rookie since Kevin Bell accomplished the feat on June 22, 1976. 1987: Floyd Bannister faced the minimum in tossing a one-hitter in the White Sox 2-0 win at Seattle. Bannister gave up a third-inning single to Harold Reynolds but Reynolds was thrown out at second by left fielder Gary Redus. From there, Bannister retired 18 in a row to finish off the only one-hitter of his career. Bannister struck out 10 in improving to 13-10. Home runs by Pat Keedy and Donnie Hill accounted for the Sox runs. 2004: Because of Hurricane Ivan in the Southeast, US Cellular Field hosted the Florida Marlins’ 6-3 win over the Montreal Expos before 4,003 fans in a matinee affair. The game was the first NL contest in an AL park in 48 years and also helped the Marlins and Expos set a big league record by playing a game in 21 different stadiums during a season. The teams also played at US Cellular Field the next day with the Marlins winning before 5,457 in another day game. The Sox were off on this day and in Minnesota the next day.

1977: Right-hander Chris Knapp fanned 13 California Angels in the White Sox 6-2 win over the Angels in the first game of a doubleheader before 16,147 at Comiskey Park. The 13 Ks were the most by a White Sox hurler in 12 seasons and were the most by a Sox right-hander in a quarter century. Jorge Orta supported Knapp with four hits, including two doubles, and four RBIs. 1979: The White Sox knocked out Nolan Ryan in the first inning but still had to sweat out a 8-7 victory over the Angels before 6,859 at Comiskey Park. The Sox sent Ryan to the showers after he just got one out. The Sox scored five times off Ryan with Chet Lemon driving in two runs, Claudell Washington driving in one and one run scoring on a wild pitch before Jim Morrison ended Ryan’s night with a home run. The Angels took Ryan off the hook with five in the third but the Sox regained the lead in their third on an RBI by Mike Colbern. The Angels tied the game again in the sixth but the Sox took the lead for good (finally!) in their sixth on Alan Bannister’s single. Ed Farmer restored order on the mound with 3.2 shutout innings of relief to get the win.

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1930: Rookie shortstop Luke Appling, destined for the Hall of Fame, made his Major League debut for the White Sox. Appling went 1-for-4 in a 6-2 loss to the Red Sox at Comiskey Park. 1967: Joel Horlen no-hit the Detroit Tigers in a 6-0 White Sox win in the first game of a doubleheader before 23,625 at Comiskey Park. Eddie Mathews reached on a Ken Boyer error but was erased on a double play and Bill Freehan was hit by a pitch for the only Tigers to get on against Horlen. Wayne Causey saved the “no-no” with a lunging grab of Jerry Lumpe’s ninth-inning grounder. The no-hitter was the last by a Sox pitcher at Old Comiskey Park. Cisco Carlos pitched a 4-0 shutout in Game 2, making this the last doubleheader shutout in club history. The sweep got the third-place Sox to within 1.5-games of first-place. 1988: Carlton Fisk made history and tied the game at the same time with his ninth inning homer but the White Sox could not finish off Minnesota in a 6-5 loss in 12 innings before 21,119 at Comiskey Park. Fisk’s ninth-inning homer knotted the game at five and was his 300th as a catcher. At that point, only Johnny Bench (327) and Yogi Berra (308) had more home runs as catchers. About two years later, Fisk would become the most prolific home run hitting catcher of all-time.

1917: The White Sox are awarded a 9-0 forfeit victory over Cleveland at Comiskey Park because of the stalling tactics of the Indians. Umpire Buck Owens made the decision after Cleveland players argued a close play for 10 minutes in the ninth inning with several Indians rolling on the ground and tossing their mitts. Owens called the game and gave the Sox the forfeit when Cleveland catcher Steve O’Neil fired the ball into center field after the first Sox batter of the 10th struck out. 1921: The White Sox outlasted the Detroit Tigers 20-15 at Comiskey Park in the highest scoring game in franchise history to that point. The Sox scored at least two runs in every inning but the third and eighth. Winning pitcher Dickie Kerr was the beneficiary of the Sox explosion. 1928: Alex Metzler’s eighth-inning homer untied a 1-1 game and sent the White Sox to a 10-1 win at Cleveland. The homer was Metzler’s third of the year and made a winner out of Ted Lyons, who picked up his 13th victory. 1958: Johnny Callison turned in one of the great Major League debuts by a White Sox player in a 4-1 win over Boston before 11,447 at Comiskey Park. The 19-year-old left fielder went 3-for-3 with two doubles, a run and an RBI. He drove in the tying run with a double in the sixth in his first big league at bat. Callison drew a walk in the second inning inhis first big league plate appearance. 1959: The first-place White Sox scored four runs in the seventh in beating the Senators 5-1 in Washington. Al Smith’s single scored Ted Kluszewski with the go-ahead run in the seventh and made a winner out of Bob Shaw, who went the distance for his 15th win. 1962: Luis Aparicio capped his four-hit day by driving in the winning run in the 11th inning of the Sox 3-2 victory over the Washington Senators in the second game of a doubleheader before 8,771 at Comiskey Park. Aparicio’s single to center scored Charlie Maxwell and allowed the Sox to sweep the twinbill after winning the opener 4-3. 1963: Nellie Fox scored the last of his 1,187 runs for the White Sox in a 9-4 win over the Orioles before 9,523 at Comiskey Park. Fox, who was 4-for-5, crossed the plate for the final time in a Sox uniform on a seventh-inning by Mike Hershberger. At the time, the 1,187 runs ranked second in Sox history to Luke Appling’s 1,319 runs.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: SEPTEMBER 8 For more, see www.whitesoxalmanac.com 1974: The White Sox needed just one hit in disposing the Angels 1-0 in California. The Sox got their only run in the third when BB Richard led off with a double, took third on a grounder and scored when Ken Henderson reached on an error. Jim Kaat and Terry Forster combined on a seven-hitter with Kaat improving to 16-13 and Forster earning save No. 21. 1976: Chris Knapp tossed 8.2 innings of shutout relief and was awarded with a victory in the White Sox 6-5 win at Oakland. Knapp took over for starter Rich Gossage with one out and five in in the first. Knapp retired Billy North and Bert Campaneris to end the first and then held off the A's as his offense went to work. The Sox took the lead in the eighth on Sam Ewing's single. Knapp finished off the A's by getting Don Baylor, Joe Rudi and Gene Tenace in the ninth. 1978: Greg Pryor played the hero on “Don Kessinger Night.” Pryor hit two homers in accounting for all the White Sox runs in a 3-2 win over the Seattle Mariners at Comiskey Park. Before the game, the White Sox and the 30,270 on hand honored Kessinger with “Don Kessinger Night.” Less than a month later, Kessinger would be named manager of the team.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: SEPT 7TH For more, see WWW.WHITESOXALAMANAC.COM 1971: Ed Herrmann hit two home runs off future Hall of Famer and 300-game winner Gaylord Perry in the White Sox 8-7 win over Minnesota before 3,707 at Comiskey Park. Herrmann hit a two-run homer in the second and a two-run shot in the fourth.. 1972: Dick Allen homered and drove in four and Wilbur Wood picked up his 24th victory in the White Sox 6-0 win over Oakland before 29,968 at Comiskey Park. Allen gave the Sox the lead for good with a sac fly in the first off Vida Blue and then added a three-run homer off Rollie Fingers in the seventh as the club closed to within three games of first-place Oakland. 1977: Steve Renko improved to 3-0 since being acquired from the Cubs in August in the White Sox 5-1 victory at Oakland. Renko pitched into the eighth before getting relief help from Dave Hamilton, who earned his seventh save. The Sox took the lead for good in the second on Don Kessinger's two-run triples.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: SEPT 2ND/A COUPLE OF BOs For the rest of the day, see WWW.WHITESOXALMANAC.COM 1986: Steve Carlton pitched his best game with the White Sox in a 3-0 win over the Royals in Kansas City. The Sox survived the Major League debut of the Royals’ Bo Jackson, who was 1-for-3 and singled to second off Carlton in his first at bat. In the seventh, Jackson almost grounded into a triple play but beat the throw to first after the Sox got outs at third and second. Carlton, in his fifth start with the Sox, fired eight innings and struck out three in improving to 3-2. 1991: Bo Jackson and Roberto Hernandez each made their White Sox debuts in a 5-1 win over the Kansas City Royals before 37,187 at Comiskey Park. Hernandez started the game and carried a no-hitter into the seventh in getting the victory while Jackson, trying to overcome a hip injury, collected an RBI single. Frank Thomas’ homer in the fourth inning was his 30th of the season, making him just the eighth player in Sox history to reach that plateau (11th time). Dan Pasqua's homer in the fourth inning was the 100th of his career.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: SEPTEMBER 1ST For the rest of the day, see www.whitesoxalmanac.com 1989: Daryl Boston hit a grand slam and added a single to lead the White Sox to a 10-1 win over Baltimore before 11,574 at Comiskey Park. It was the final grand slam hit by a White Sox player at Old Comiskey Park. Lance Johnson contributed a Sox season-high three stolen bases while going 3-for-5. Eric King did not surrender an earned runin seven innings before giving way to Shawn Hillegas, who mopped up with two perfect frames. 1990: Bobby Thigpen tied the all-time season record with his 46th save in the White Sox 9-5 win over the Angels in California. Thigpen preserved Melido Perez's 12th victory of the year by recording the final two outs of the game. Thigpen would finish 1990 with a Major League record 57 saves.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: AUGUST 31 WWW.WHITESOXALMANAC.COM 1914: Jack Fournier became the first player to homer twice off Walter Johnson in the same game in White Sox 4-3 win at Washington. Fournier hit a game-tying homer off the recently-entered Johnson in the eighth and then hit the game-winner in the 10th. Only Lou Gehrig would join Fournier as the lone players to homer twice off the legendary Johnson. Gehrig accomplished the feat on Aug. 13, 1926. 1926: Ray Morehart logged nine hits in 10 at bats in the White Sox doubleheader split in Detroit. Morehart’s feat that has been matched (with the last time coming in 1961) but never broken. The Sox ripped the Detroit Tigers 19-2 in Detroit in the first game with Red Faber getting the win in what was the third-highest scoring game in franchise history. The Sox dropped the nightcap 7-6. 1935: Vern Kennedy registered the first no-hitter by a White Sox pitcher at Comiskey Park in 43 years in a 5-0 win over the Cleveland Indians. Kennedy walked four and fanned five as the White Sox turned two double plays behind him. He was also the hitting star with a bases-loaded triple. 1966: Tommie Agee went 7-for-10 with a double and an two RBIs 19,304 in the White Sox doubleheader sweep of the Tigers before 19,304 at Comiskey Park. Agee scored the winning the run in the 12th inning of the Sox 7-6 victory in Game 1 and he drove in an insurance run in the seventh inning of the Sox 3-1 victory in the nightcap. Pete Ward’s homer earlier in the inning put the Sox on top for good. 1993: Frank Thomas tied the White Sox single-season home run record and Tim Raines homered from both sides of the plate in the White Sox 11-3 win at New York. Thomas equalled the 1985 mark of Carlton Fisk and the 1972 mark of Dick Allen by hitting his 37th homer in the first inning. The blast was also the 100th of his career. Raines joined Ken Henderson as the only players in Sox history to homer from both sides of the plate in a game. Raines also swiped his 744th base in the game, which moved him into fourth place on the all-time list.

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THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: AUGUST 30TH I am caught up! I have been on vacation and unable to update. Here is August 30. If you check out www.whitesoxalmanac.com, you can see what happened between Aug. 26-29! 1949: The White Sox staged Jackie Hayes Night at Comiskey Park to benefit their 43-year old former second baseman whose career was cut short by blindness in 1940. 1959: The first-place White Sox swept a doubleheader before 66,586 in Cleveland to jack their lead to 6.5 games in the A.L. Early Wynn homered and earned his 17th win in the Sox 6-3 win in the first game. In the nightcap, Al Smith homered and drove in three and Billy Goodman and winning pitcher Barry Latman each drove in two in a 9-4 win. 1960: The White Sox scored four in the top of the 10th and then hung on for a wild 11-10 win at Washington. Nellie Fox’s two-run double in the 10th gave the Sox the lead for good in a game that had the Senators leading 1-0 heading into eighth. Washington answered the sox four with three in the bottom of the 10th but Early Wynn finally ended it to earn his first save. 1961: Juan Pizarro went the distance and struck out 10 as the White Sox extended their winning streak to six with a 7-4 win at Detroit. Floyd Robinson and Roy Sievers each had three hits as the Sox totaled 13 hits. 1962: Al Smith’s two-run homer in the eighth pushed the White Sox to a 5-4 win at Detroit. 1964: Joel Horlen, Gary Peters and Hoyt Wilhelm combined on a five-hitter in the White Sox 3-0 win at Baltimore. Horlen earned his 10th win nine strikeouts in seven innings while Wilhelm notched his 20th save with 1.1 perfect innings of work. 1967: Starter Fred Klages turned in six shutout innings in the White Sox 5-1 win at Washington. Klages gave up five hits and one walk and received relief help from Bob Locker, who notched his 16th save. An offense, which received one RBI each from Tommie Agee, Don Buford, Tom McCraw, Pete Ward and Ron Hansen, helped the Sox stay with 2.5 games of first place in the tightly-paced A.L. race. 1969: Woodie Held’s single to center scored Luis Aparicio with the winning run in the ninth in the White Sox 6-5 win over Cleveland before 3,573 at Comiskey Park. The single and RBI were the last of Held’s career, which started with the New York Yankees in 1954. 1977: The White Sox closed to within two games of first place Kansas City with a 3-1 win in Cleveland. Ken Kravec took a five hit shutout into the ninth in earning his eighth win. … Bill Melton was called out on strikes as a pinch-hitter for Cleveland in the eighth inning. It was the last big league appearance for Melton, who hit 154 homers for the White Sox between 1968 and 1975. 1981: The White Sox acquired left-handed pitcher Jerry Koosman from the Minnesota Twins for infielders Ivan Mesa and Ron Perry, outfielder Randy Johnson and cash. Koosman served as a valuable swingman for the Sox in 1982 and 1983. The former Met went 11-7 in both seasons as both a starter and a reliever. Koosman’s Sox career ended when he was traded to Philadelphia for pitcher Ron Reed Dec. 5, 1983. 1982: Jim Kern pitched 1.2 scoreless innings to earn his first save for the White Sox in a 4-1 win over Cleveland before 14,322 at Comiskey Park. Kern preserved Richard Dotson’s ninth win as the Sox halted a three-game losing streak and began a six-game winning streak. 1983: Carlton Fisk’s inside-the-park homer highlighted the White Sox 5-0 win over Texas before 26,666 at Comiskey Park. The inside-the-park homer was the second in 13 days by a Sox player. Rudy Law pulled one offon Aug. 17, 1983 at Yankee Stadium. Fisk’s in-the-park homer was the first by a Sox player at Comiskey Park since June 9, 1981 (Wayne Nordhagen). Britt Burns got the win over Dave Stewart as the Sox opened a 9.5-game lead in the American League West. 1988: Carlton Fisk went 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI in the White Sox 4-1 win vs. Detroit before 11,485 at Comiskey Park. The outburst made him 5-for-7 with a homer, double in two RBI in the first two games of the series. Jeff Bittiger started and gave up one run in 5.1 innings for the win. Barry Jones threw two scoreless innings for his first save. 1990: Ron Karkovice’s in-the-park grand slam propelled the Sox to a 4-3 win at Minnesota. It was Karkovice’s second career slam and the ninth inside-the-park grand slam in club history. The shot enabled the White Sox to end a five-game losing streak. It was the last inside the park slam by a White Sox player in the century. 1993: The White Sox toppled Minnesota 4-1 before 38,367 at Comiskey Park. The win jacked the Sox lead in the American League West to 5.5 games and enabled them to take four of the five games in the series. Alex Fernandez earned his 16th win and Roberto Hernandez notched his 30th save. A three-run second with RBIs from Tim Raines, Joey Cora and Robin Ventura put the Sox ahead to stay. 1995: Ron Karkovice muscled the White Sox to a 10-7 win over the Detroit Tigers before 17,074 at Comiskey Park. “Karko” went 3-for-4 with a double, a homer and four RBI. His homer, a three-run shot in the seventh, proved to be the game-winner. 1996: Kevin Tapani pitched into the eighth inning for his 12th win and Danny Tartabull and Frank Thomas each drove in three runs in the White Sox 11-2 win at Toronto. 1997: The White Sox made it two in a row over the Houston Astros with a 9-2 win before 28,051 at Comiskey Park. The Sox scored three in the first to support starting pitcher Jason Bere, who improved to 3-0. He got relief help from Chuck McElroy and Mike Sirotka, who finished off the Astros with three scoreless innings. Magglio Ordonez launched the first home run of his career with a two-run shot in the seventh inning. 1998: Relievers Carlos Castillo, Chad Bradford and Bob Howry held the Texas Rangers scoreless over the final 4.1 innings in preserving the White Sox 5-3 win before 16,701 at Comiskey Park. The Sox scored three times in the first and once in the third and fifth innings and then held on. Bradford extended his scoreless streak to 12.2 innings while Castillo improved to 6-4 and Howry logged his second save. 2000: The first-place White Sox offense saved its best for last in dumping the Athletics 8-3 in Oakland. Trailing 2-1 after six, the Sox scored seven runs in their final three at bats to ice the win. Jose Valentin capped a three-run seventh with a two-run single. Mike Sirotka turned in seven strong innings for his 13th win of the season. Bob Howry went the final two innings to earn his sixth save as the Sox improved to 79-54. 2002: Josh Paul’s RBI single in the seventh fronted the White Sox for good in a 4-3 win at Detroit. Dan Wright earned his 10th win and also got offensive support from Aaron Rowand, who had three hits and an RBI. 2003: A three-run homer from Frank Thomas and a two-run shot from Carlos Lee was all the White Sox needed in a 5-2 win at Detroit. Jon Garland fanned eight in six innings for his 10th win. 2004: In a matinee makeup game, the White Sox received a 504-foot home run from Joe Borchard – the longest in the history of U.S. Cellular Field – in a 9-8 win over Philadelphia before 5,747 on the South side. Borchard’s blast came off Brett Myers in the second inning and reached the concourse behind the seats in right field. 2005: Brandon McCarthy picked up his first big league win and Jermaine Dye hit two ho mers and drove in six in the White Sox 8-0 win at Texas in the second game of a doubleheader. After the Sox lost the first game, McCarthy tossed 7.2 brilliant innings before departing in favor of Bobby Jenks in the nightcap. McCarthy gave up two hits and one walk while fanning two.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY AUGUST 22ND For more, check out www.whitesoxalmanac.com 1923: Sloppy Thurston became the first White Sox pitcher to fan the side on nine pitches in the 12th inning of a 3-2 loss to Philadelphia at Comiskey Park. At the time, Thurston was the 10th A.L. pitcher to accomplish the feat and the first to do it in extra innings. 1958: Nellie Fox extended his record streak of games without a strikeout to 98 in the White Sox 8-5 loss at Yankee Stadium. The streak would end in the first inning of the next day’s game when Whitey Ford K’d Fox. 1993: In one of the guttiest performances in recent memory, Jack McDowell went the distance to notch his 20th victory in the White Sox 1-0 win at Minnesota. McDowell gave up eight hits and one walk while fanning 10. Seven of his strikeouts came with men on base. “Black Jack” became just the third Sox pitcher since World War II to win his 20th game in August. McDowell made Frank Thomas’ homer in the first stand up as the Sox went 14 games over .500 for the first time in 1993. THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY AUGUST 23ND For more, check out www.whitesoxalmanac.com 1906: The White Sox won their A.L. record 19th consecutive game by downing host Washington 4-1 behind pitcher Roy Patterson. The White Sox broke a 1-1 tie in the fifth inning on an RBI by George Davis. The streak began Aug. 2 and included seven wins over the Yankees, six over the Red Sox, five over the Athletics and one over Washington. 1972: Dick Allen hit the first home run by a White Sox player and the fourth overall into the center field bleachers at Comiskey Park in a 5-2 win over the New York Yankees. Allen victimized the Yankees’ Lindy McDaniel for the fourth of what would turn out to be seven of such homers in the park’s history. The blast came on day where Harry Caray was announcing from the bleachers and the drive missed the colorful broadcaster by just a few rows. It took the Sox 62 years to reach this area with a home run. Richie Zisk joined Allen in 1977 and they would be the only two Sox to accomplish this feat at the old park. 1982: The White Sox acquired Jim Kern from Cincinnati a day after the relief pitcher had challenged the Reds’ no facial hair policy. The Sox picked up the bearded right-hander for minor leaguers Leo Garcia and Wade Rowdon.

AUGUST 21ST For more, see WWW.WHITESOXALMANAC.COM 1926: Hall of Famer-to-be Ted Lyons fired the only no-hitter in his illustrious career in the White Sox 6-0 win at Fenway Park. Lyons fanned two and walked three in facing the minimum. The no-no was one of Lyons' Sox-record 260 wins and 27 shutouts in his 21-year career. 1959: The White Sox celebrated Nellie Fox Day before a 5-4 win over the Washington Senators before 37,986 at Comiskey Park. The honors came during a season in which the second baseman would be named the American League’s Most Valuable Player. 1973: Stan Bahnsen flirted with a no-hitter before settling for a 4-0 win at Cleveland. Bahnsen was within one out of a no-hitter but former Sox outfielder Walt “No Neck” Williams bounced a grounder past third baseman Bill Melton. Melton was playing in because of Williams' bunting ability. Bahnsen became the first Sox hurler since Billy Pierceon June 27, 1958 to lose a no-hitter with two outs in the ninth. Other Sox hurlers who have lost no-hitters with two out in the ninth are Dennis Lamp, Orval Grove and Whitlow Wyatt. 2005: The White Sox halted a seven-game losing streak with an explosive 6-2 win over the Yankees before 39,480 at US Cellular Field. The Sox did all of their damage in the fourth with four home runs off Randy Johnson. Tadahito Iguchi, Aaron Rowand and Paul Konerko hit consecutive homers. After a pair of singles, Chris Widger capped the outburst with a home run.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: AUGUST 19 For more see, www.whitesoxalmanac.com 1970: Luis Aparicio became the first player in White Sox history to record two pinch-hits in an inning. The rarity came in the White Sox 13-5 win at Boston which saw the South siders score 11 runs in the ninth inning to win. Pinch-hitting for Gail Hopkins, Aparicio delivered a two-run double, which gave the Sox the lead for good. Later in the frame, Aparicio came up again, still a pinch-hitter, and delivered a run-scoring single.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: AUGUST 18TH For more, see WWW.WHITESOXALMANAC.COM 1910: Future White Sox hurler Red Faber fired a perfect game in Dubuque’s 3-0 win in a Three-I League game at Davenport. 1984: The White Sox halted a three-game skid with a 7-6 win over Toronto before 34,484 at Comiskey Park. Harold Baines hit two home runs and Vance Law’s single gave the Sox the lead for good. Reliever Bert Roberge got the win in improving his record to 3-0 at Comiskey Park. 1987: Outfielder Ken Williams went 4-for-4 and extended his Comiskey Park streak to 10 hits in 10 at bats in the White Sox 14-8 loss to Boston. The streak started Aug. 11 and 12. After a road trip, Williams returned to the Southside where he banged out a career-high four hits against the Red Sox. 1988: Carlton Fisk tied Rick Ferrell’s American League record by catching his 1,806th game in the White Sox 6-4 loss at Detroit. Fisk would break the record the next night.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: AUGUST 17TH For the rest of the day, see www.whitesoxalamanac.com 1971: Steve Huntz had the game of his life in leading the White Sox to a 6-5 win over the Detroit Tigers in the first game of a doubleheader before 17,887 at Comiskey Park. Huntz, a second baseman, hit two homers, including a three-run go-ahead shot in the eighth, off Mickey Lolich to key a sweep. The Sox went on to win the second game 4-1 to extend their winning streak to four. 1986: The White Sox took care of Milwaukee 7-4 in a game of historic firsts at Comiskey Park. Steve Carlton picked up his first American League win with help from rookies Ron Karkovice and Bobby Thigpen. Karkovice made his Major League debut behind the plate and had a single, an RBI and a run. Bobby Thigpen earned his first Major League save. Ozzie Guillen added two doubles before a matinee crowd of 19,064. 1988: Carlton Fisk slammed two home runs to power the White Sox to a 5-1 win over Toronto before 14,367 at Comiskey Park. It was first believed this was the contest that tied Fisk for the career lead in games caught in the American League, but a discrepancy in the records was discovered that still left “Pudge” one game shy of the record. He tied the record the next night in Detroit and then broke it two nights later. 1990: With one swing of the bat, Carlton Fisk became the most prolific home run-hitting catcher of all-time and the White Sox all-time home run leader. Fisk’s second-inning homer off Charlie Hough in Texas gave him 328 as a catcher and 187 with the White Sox. He eclipsed Johnny Bench’s mark for catchers and Harold Baines’ White Sox record. The historic homer came in the White Sox 4-2 win. 2000: Jose Valentin tied Ron Hansen’s single-season White Sox record for homers by a shortstop in a 5-3 loss to the Orioles in the Baltimore. Valentin’s homer was his 20th of the year and equaled Hansen’s 1964 franchise mark for homers at the position. Valentin’s blast was a two-run shot in the ninth inning. He would break the record the next day. Also in the game, James Baldwin tied an American League by hitting five batters.

AUGUST 16TH 1927: Babe Ruth clubbed the first roof shot home run at Comiskey Park in the Sox 8-1 loss to the Yankees. Ruth victimized the White Sox Tommy Thomas for his only “roofer” and the first of 44 at the park. 1967: Pete Ward went 4-for-4 with two homers and four RBIs in leading the White Sox to a 14-1 win over the Kansas City Athletics before 15,138 at Comiskey Park. 1969: Bill Melton’s two-run home run in the last of the eighth powered the White Sox to a 5-4 win over the Yankees before 4,135 at Comiskey Park. Melton’s homer, his 18th, came with two outs and Gail Hopkins on first and made a winner out of reliever Wilbur Wood. 1978: Ross Baumgarten tossed six innings in winning his bigleague debut in the White Sox 6-2 win at Texas. The lefty out of New Trier East gave up five hits and four walks with two strikeouts. He got relief help from Lerrin LaGrow, who pitched three shutout innings for his 11th save. Claudell Washington paced the Sox 14-hit attack by going 3-for-4 with an RBI, a double and a triple. 1995: Robin Ventura’s 100th career home run helped the White Sox turn back the California Angels 9-2 before 19,956 at Comiskey Park. Ventura’s blast was a three-run shot and was part of a four-run inning that put the White Sox ahead to stay. Ventura became the ninth Sox player and just the third Sox lefty to hit at least 100 homers.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: AUGUST 15 For more, see www.whitesoxalmanac.com 1962: The White Sox scored 10 RUNS in the ninth inning in overwhelming the Indians 10-2 in the first game of a doubleheader in Cleveland. The Sox entered the frame trailing 1-0 but quickly tied the game on Jim Landis’ double. After a walk, Nellie Fox’s fielder’s choice gave the Sox the lead for good. From there, the Sox got two RBI hits from Al Smith and Floyd Robinson and one RBI each from Bob Roselli, Sherm Lollar and Luis Aparicio. The Sox also scored on an error. The Indians regrouped to win Game 2 3-2. 1971: Wilbur Wood went the distance in outdueling Pat Dobson, one of the Orioles’ four 20-game winners that season, in a 2-1 win before 18,246 at Comiskey Park. Wood improved to 15-9. 1983: Britt Burns was masterful in the first-place Sox 1-0 win at Yankee Stadium. The hard-throwing lefty went the distance and allowed just three hits while fanning seven in outdueling Dave Righetti, who struck out 11. Burns faced just two over the minimum and retired 17 in a row at one point. The Sox gave Burns all he would need in the first when DAVE STEGMAN walked, took second on a balk, moved to third on Carlton Fisk’s single and scored on Tom Paciorek’s sacrifice fly. 1986: Hours after signing with the White Sox, George Foster homered and singled in four at bats in a 4-3 loss to Milwaukee before 22,187 Comiskey Park. The blast, which came off Bill Wegman to leadoff the fourth, was the last of Foster’s 347 home runs.

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: AUGUST 14TH For the rest of the day, see www.whitesoxalmanac.com 1939: The White Sox topped the St. Louis Browns 5-2 in the franchise’s’ first night game at Comiskey Park. The game attracted 30,000 fans. Lake Forest native John Duncan Rigney was the winning pitcher. Rigney went the distance and fanned 10 while walking just one. Catcher Mike Tresh paced the White Sox 13-hit attack with two RBI. The lighting plant cost the team $ 140,000. 1983: The White Sox dropped a controversial 2-1 decision to the Baltimore Orioles in front of 37,846 at Comiskey Park. Carlton Fisk appeared to hit a two-run home run in the fifth inning but home plate umpire Jim Evans overruled third base umpire Greg Kosc, saying that a fan had touched the ball below the yellow line and awarded “Pudge” a ground rule double. Sox manager Tony LaRussa was ejected for arguing the call. His parting shot was a heave of third base on his way to the White Sox clubhouse. The homer would have given the White Sox a 3-0 lead but Scot McGregor got out of the inning without any further damage. 1984: The White Sox retired Luis Aparicio’s No. 11 uniform jersey in a pregame ceremony at Comiskey Park on Luis Aparicio Night. Two days earlier, Aparicio was inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. His uniform number was the fourth in tema history to be retired. 1985: Ozzie Guillen registered his first career four-hit game and his first career home run in the White Sox 10-7 loss to New York at Comiskey Park. Guillen, on his way to the American League’s Rookie of the Year Award, clubbed his homer off Ed Whitson.

I think the only thing keeping DeBusschere from continuing his baseball career was that he was a great basketball player. His career got off to a decent start with the Sox in the early 1960s. While he didn't have a winning record (3-4), his ERA was 2.90 in 36 appearances (10 starts). He also may have seen the logjam in front of him: Peters, Pizarro, Horlen, etc. Years later, the Sox employed the reverse DeBusschere: Ron Reed gave up the NBA to play baseball. The last year of his career was 1984 when he led the Sox with 12 saves.