1917 Chicago White Sox Views

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The Only White Sox Team to Win 100 Games The only White Sox team to ever win 100 games in a season, the 1917 Sox were a colorful, well-balanced unit. They failed to repeat as champions in the war-shortened 1918 season as the great Boston Red Sox won the World Series, but the White Sox won the 1919 pennant and became the Black Sox. It is interesting that the Red Sox rs" won World Championships in 1918 and 2004, and the White Sox

The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since 1991, the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans. The White Sox are one of two major league clubs based in Chicago, the other being the Chicago Cubs of the National League. The White Sox last won the World Series in 2005 when they played the Houston Astros and swept them in four games.

One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Chicago team was established as a major league baseball club in 1900. The club was originally called the Chicago White Stockings, after the nickname abandoned by the Cubs, and the name was soon shortened to Chicago White Sox, believed to have been because the paper would shorten it to Sox in the headlines. At this time, the team played their home games at South Side Park. In 1910, the team moved into historic Comiskey Park, which they would inhabit for more than eight decades.

The Chicago White Sox are most prominently nicknamed the South Siders , based on their particular district within Chicago. Other nicknames include the Pale Hose , the ChiSox , a combination of Chicago and Sox (as opposed to the BoSox), mostly just used by the national media, the Go-Go Sox , a reference to 1959 AL champions, who got that nickname; the Good Guys , a reference to the team's one-time motto Good guys wear black , coined by Ken Hawk Harrelson; and the Black Sox, referring specifically to the scandal-tainted 1919 team. Most fans and Chicago media refer to the team as simply the Sox . The Spanish language media sometimes refer to the team as Medias Blancas for White Socks.