How did you become a White Sox fan?

[White Sox Park]

 

My dad and uncle lefty, took me too a ton of games when I was a kid, growing up in Brighton Park . while they got drunk and talked mostly about about Korea, we would wander around the park . some of my earliest memories are playing with my cousins, up by the arches in Comiskey Park . when I got older, we would ride our bikes to the park, and spend 50 cents to sit in the outfield, which I loved, since outfield defense has always been my favorite part of the game..

Right after my dad died, my cousin, Jerry Kuc, father of Chris, the White Sox and Blackhawks beat writer, they took me in for a few weeks, and it really helped me get over a very difficult time . I never thanked him for that, but it helped tremendously . he took me to my first Cubs game then, which my dad would not have liked . he hated the Cubs . we sat in the bleachers, and I only remember that some guy kept yelling Randy Hundley's name.

Those times at the park , were some of the best of my life, and I only wish that I had pictures of that.

[The Grinder]

My dad got discharged from the Army post WW2,  and for whatever reason he chose Elmhurst College (he wasnt from this area) of course the Sox were the popular team back then so he jumped on the band wagon and naturally raised me to be a Sox fan. 

[greg775]

On 6/11/2023 at 10:09 PM, Dan Pasqua said:

I was born and raised a Cubs fan by my dad.  We lived in rural central Illinois.  There were 3 tv stations back then.  I was a radio listener only.  I used to go with my Dad every year on a State Farm bus trip to see the Cubs.  We got the program, kept the box score, had the hot dog and malt.  Cubs fans were boring.  The young kids used to chant we want a hit and that was silly in my eyes, a hit?  And lucky they were to get those.  Then around age 9 I fell in love with Harry Caray & Jimmy Piersall and listening to their call on the radio.  They made the game seem like a fight, all the batteries thrown from Comiskey outfield and beer dumped on those Tigers & NYY players.  That was more my style, the AL was much more rugged.  For that matter I didn't even know what the uniforms really looked like nor the players faces   This week in baseball would occasionally show them on one of those 3 channels.  Every game I listened to and all the pregame and post game as well.  I became hooked.  And now at 54 I'm still addicted to this team.  I'm a different fan now.  It's not the end of the world anymore but I'm still frustrated as can be when we play like this and lose.  But no matter what I will never stop being a White Sox fan.

Was your dad upset u became a Sox fan? That'd be kind of a bummer if that happened. I know in our family Sox vs. Cubs was life and death. My dad's brother and his side loved the Cubs. My dad was a Sox only fan, wouldn't be caught dead in Wrigley so to speak. My mom's dad was a Cub fan. I went with him to a ton of Cubs games prolly from age 10 to 15. I enjoyed the games a lot. My grandfather wasn't an obnoxious fan but he did love a good Cub baseball game. He didn't even cheer much vs. my dad who screamed at umps, etc. A lot of times those Cub games were so crowded he'd have to buy us two single seats and I wouldn't even get to sit by him. Kids were different back then. No cell phones. I remember being engrossed in the games and enjoyed those games in Wrigley when the score got out of hand. Like 15-10 scores that happened a lot in Wrigley, balls clubbed off the Ivy and out of the park. I especially enjoyed getting there early with gramps and watching players hit homers in batting practice.

At the exact same time, my dad had Sox season tickets and I went with him to many Sox night games. He also had Blackhawk season tickets and we went to a ton of games. I kind of had the best of both worlds getting to hang with gramps and my dad at different ballparks.

However I was more drawn to the Sox. I remember going to a DH and being in nirvana. As a little kid I remember game one ending and getting to see the grounds crew put down the white chalk for the basepaths. I loved Comiskey and everything about it. Loved it more than Wrigley as a kid.

Anyhow I digress. When we moved from southside Mt. Greenwood to Lisle to start my junior year of high school (Br. Rice over to Benet) I was exclusively a Sox fan and never cared about the Cubs again. Never. Didn't follow them during that rare year they won it all. BTW my dad got rich and our Sox seats improved. As a fricking high schooler and college kid coming home for summer I went to 30 plus games a season wit our box seats in row five. My dad's board of trade partner was one of the Sox many owners so he'd sit with the owners indoors and get drunk, thus I could take friends to fill our four seats at tons of Sox games. Those were the days baby. Row five at Sox park.

Edited June 13, 2023 by greg775

[Dick Allen]

When my dad was a kid he was an Andy Frain usher and worked all events. In fact when they started ESPN classic, they showed old time wrestling the very first day and I saw him in the ring. He used to escort the wrestlers back to the locker room. He was one of the few that liked both teams, but one day he was working a doubleheader at Wrigley, and was right behind the plate. The GM of the Cubs saw him leaning against a railing, it was a long day. He called Andy Frain over and told him to fire my dad. My dad go the message to see Andy who told him what happened, said he wasn't going to fire him, just hide in the upper dack the rest of the day. After that, my dad hated the Cubs, so everything with me was Sox. Thank God that happened or I might actually want the Cubs to win once in a while.