November 26, 20232 yr November 26, 1976 - It was a move that would pay large returns the following season. On this day, injured third baseman Eric Soderholm signed a free agent deal with Bill Veeck and Roland Hemond. Soderholm would become Comeback Player of the Year for 1977 with 25 home runs, 67 RBI’s and a .280 batting average. It would help lead the “South Side Hit Men” to a remarkable 90-win season. He missed the entire 1976 season with a severe leg injury suffered when he was still with the Twins and was one of the first proponents of the Nautilus exercise system which he used to get back to being able to play at the Major League level. November 26, 1991 - The Sox hired Gene Lamont as the new field manager replacing Jeff Torborg. Lamont was hired after Pirates manager and former Sox coach Jim Leyland highly recommended him. Lamont was a coach on Leyland’s staff. The quiet, laid back, Lamont would win the American League’s Western Division title in 1993 and be named Manager of the Year for it. He’d also guide the Sox to the Central Division lead at the time of the labor impasse in August 1994 which saw the rest of the season get cancelled. With the Sox having gotten off to a slow start in 1995 he was fired by the team in June of that season.
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