StatManDu Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: OCTOBER 17 www.whitesoxalmanac.com 1911: With the White Sox on the brink of clinching, Game 4 of the City Series was postponed. Up 3-0, the Sox clinched the series the next time the rivals took the field with a 7-2 victory. 1912: The visiting White Sox scored four runs in the ninth to overtake the Cubs for an 8-5 win in Game 8 of the City Series before 11,903 at West Side Park. The big blow was a bases-clearing triple by Walter Mattick. Shano Collins and Buck Weaver homered and Frank Lange got the win for the Sox, who could clinch the series the next time the teams would take the field with a 16-0 triumph. 1966: The White Sox released pinch-hitter deluxe Smoky Burgess. The rotund Burgess hit .313 with a club-record 21 pinch-hits and 66 pinch-at bats in 1966. This wasn’t the last the Sox would see of the 39-year old Burgess. He hooked on with the Sox again in 1967 and hit .133 strictly as a pinch-hitter. He was released for good on Oct. 16, 1967, ending his career. 1977: After guiding the “Southside Hitmen” to a 90-72 record, the White Sox Bob Lemon was named American League Manager of the Year in a vote of United Press International sports writers. In his first year with the Sox, Lemon oversaw a 26-win improvement in one fun season at 35th and Shields. 1983: The Sporting News rewarded White Sox ace LaMarr Hoyt for his 24-win season by naming him the American League’s top pitcher for 1983. TSN, known as the “baseball bible,” also placed catcher Carlton Fisk and DH Greg Luzinski on its All-Star team and named Tony LaRussa its Manager of the Year. 2005: The American League champion White Sox, who clinched the pennant the day before, watched as the St. Louis Cardinals staved off elimination in the National League Championship Series with a 5-4 win in Houston. A two-strike single by David Eckstein and a walk by Jim Emonds brought Albert Pujols to the plate, who shocked he Minute Maid Park crowd with a three-run homer off Brad Lidge. The Astros eventually took the series to set up a World Series meeting with the White Sox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 I think about 3 days ago that ball from Pujols collided with the ball Manny hit off of K-Rod somewhere around the orbit of Venus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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