This Day In Sox History 4/11...

Seven factoids for today:

April 11, 1917 - The World Championship season began in St. Louis where the Sox battered the Browns 7-2. Jim Scott picked up the win tossing six innings of relief work for Claude ‘‘Lefty’’ Williams. He gave up just four hits and a run.

George “Buck” Weaver drove in three runs for the Sox on the day. Just slightly over six months later, after winning 100 games in the regular season, the Sox would win the World Series, four games to two, over John McGraw and the New York Giants.

April 11, 1969 - The White Sox initiated Major League Baseball to Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

They were the first home opponent for the expansion Seattle Pilots. The Sox promptly rolled over and died to the new team 7-0 getting shut out by future Sox pitcher Gary Bell who went the distance. Bell would be traded to the Sox that June! Joe Horlen took the loss only lasting three innings.

Former Sox minor league player Don Mincher would have a two-run home run for the Pilots.

That afternoon the Sox would get nine hits, three were doubles, but strand 14 baserunners.

April 11, 1982 - When the great blizzard hit the Midwest and forced cancellation of a number of games, the Sox had to open on the road the following week... in New York... with a double header.

No problem, as the franchise which had already won a regularly scheduled opening day twin bill in 1971, put the wood to the Yankees winning 7-6 in 12 innings and then 2-0.

It was the start of an eight-game winning streak to open the 1982 campaign, the best start to a season in franchise history. They beat the Yankees twice, Boston three times and the Orioles three times.

April 11, 2000 - For a man with not a lot of speed he got around the bases fast enough this time! Paul Konerko hit an inside the park home run against Tampa Bay. It came in the first inning off Esteban Yan and drove in two runs as Magglio Ordonez scored ahead of him. The Sox won 13-6.

April 11, 2008 - To commemorate their World Series win three years earlier, the White Sox unveiled their “Champions Plaza” and “Championship Moments” monument prior to the game against the Detroit Tigers.

Current players still on the team from the 2005 championship roster assisted in the unveiling of a white, bronze and granite sculpture weighing more than 25 tons.

It honored the title and featured timeless 2005 playoff images of Paul Konerko, Joe Crede, Orlando Hernandez, Geoff Blum and Juan Uribe.

April 11, 2011 - Sox utility player Brent Lillibridge belted the franchise’s 10,000^th home run when he took a fast ball from Oakland’s Dallas Braden and hit it out of U.S. Cellular Field. It came in the fifth inning of a game the Sox eventually lost 2-1 in 10 innings. Lillibridge hit a career high 13 home runs that season.

April 11, 2025 – It was a wonderful start to a Major League career for White Sox infielder Chase Meidroth. He was acquired in the deal from Boston involving All-Star pitcher Garrett Crochet.

Called up to the team and starting against the Red Sox Meidroth drew three walks and singled in the 11-1 win. He also scored two runs. He became the first player to get a hit and walk three times in his Major League debut since Larry Walker of the Expos on August 16, 1989.