Team: Chicago White Sox
Sport: Baseball
Venue: Comiskey Park
Manager: Jerry Manuel
Championships: 2 - 1906, 1917
Background: The Chicago White Sox are
a Major League Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois.
They are in the Central Division of the American League.
Founded: 1893, as the Sioux City,
Iowa franchise in the minor Western League. Moved to
St. Paul, Minnesota, then again to Chicago in 1900 when
that league became the American League.
Formerly known as: Sioux City Cornhuskers, 1894. St.
Paul, 1895-1899. "White Sox" is short for
"White Stockings".
Home ballpark: U.S. Cellular Field,
Chicago. (The current Comiskey Park, now U.S. Cellular
Field, was opened in 1991; the original Comiskey Park
was in use from 1910 to 1990.)
Uniform colors: black, white and gray
Logo design: the letters "SOX",
interlocked in various ways
Wild Card titles won (0): none
Division titles won (4): 1983, 1993,
1994, 2000
American League pennants won (5): 1901,
1906, 1917, 1919, 1959
World Series championships won (2):
1906, 1917
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Franchise History
The team was founded by Charles Comiskey, a
former major-league ballplayer who starred with the
St. Louis Browns in the 1880s. Comiskey originally founded
the team in Sioux City, Iowa, as part of a minor league
called the Western League. The Cornhuskers won the league
pennant in 1894, then moved to St. Paul, Minnesota.
When the Western League changed its name to the American
League in 1900, a year before claiming major league
status, the St. Paul franchise was relocated to Chicago,
to compete directly with the National League club in
that city.
The club adopted the name "White Stockings",
the original name of the Chicago Cubs, and acquired
a number of stars from the National League, including
pitcher and manager Clark Griffith, who paced the White
Sox to the AL's first pennant in 1901. The White Sox
would continue to be built on pitching and defense in
the following years, led by pitching workhorse Ed Walsh,
who routinely pitched over 400 innings each season in
his prime.
The Hitless Wonders
Walsh, Doc White and Nick Altrock paced the
White Sox to their 1906 pennant and their first World
Series victory, a stunning upset over the Cubs who had
won a record 116 regular-season games. The Sox, dubbed
the "Hitless Wonders" for having the lowest
team batting average in the American League that year,
nevertheless took the Series, and intercity bragging
rights, in six games.
