This Day In Sox History 3/8...

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March 8, 1948 – WGN, channel 9 in Chicago, announced that it would televise White Sox games for the first time during the upcoming season. Veteran radio sports broadcasters Jack Brickhouse and Harry Creighton would become the first White Sox TV announcers in history. The first game they ever showed was an exhibition game against the Cubs from Wrigley Field on April 16 in freezing cold weather! The Sox would beat the Cubs 4-1. WGN carried White Sox televised games from 1948-1967, 1981 and 1990 through 2019. 

 

March 8, 1951 – The White Sox held spring training in Pasadena, California after the war. It was near Hollywood and on this day the team had a special visitor as actress Marilyn Monroe came calling.

Monroe was going to be the mascot for a charity game played at Gilmore Field, the home of the Pacific Coast League Hollywood Stars that Sunday. The game featured a number of All-Stars.

Monroe arrived early and took a number of publicity photos with the players including Hank Majeski, Joe Dobson and Gus Zernial. All the Sox players would later receive autographed pictures from her.