THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: Ruth, Peters, Big Frank

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THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY:

 

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1916: With Babe Ruth starting both games for Boston, the White Sox were swept in a doubleheader 5-3 and 3-1. Ruth started the opener to give Rube Foster more time to warm up and was pulled after retiring the White Sox leadoff hitter. Ruth tossed a complete game in the nightcap for the sweep.

 

1918: The White Sox and Ed Cicotte fell to first-place Boston and Carl Mays 4-0. Three of the nine hits Cicotte surrendered were opposite field doubles to Babe Ruth, who recorded 20 putouts at first base.

 

1921: Dickie Kerr gave up two-run home runs to Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel in the White Sox 4-0 loss to the New York Yankees at Comiskey Park. The homer was Ruth’s 32nd of the year and gave him at least one dinger in every American League park this season. Later, robbers blew the door off a safe at Comiskey Park and made off with $3,000, mostly receipts from the game. According to the New York Times, White Sox owner Charles Comiskey “denied reports that the safe contained papers pertaining to the former White Sox players now on trial (in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal).”

 

1967: In Anaheim, Calif., left-hander Gary Peters tossed three perfect innings with four strikeouts for the American League in one of the best performances by a White Sox pitcher in All-Star history. The third of five American League pitchers, Peters relieved the Angels’ Jim McGlothlin in the sixth and set down the N.L. in order in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings in what turned out to be a 2-1 N.L. win in 15 innings in the longest All-Star Game in history. Peters’ strikeout victims were Willie Mays (called), Roberto Clemente (called), Orlando Cepeda (called) and Dick Allen.

 

1995: Frank Thomas became the first White Sox player to homer in an All-Star Game when he victimized Cincinnati's John Smiley at the Ballpark in Arlington in the American League’s 3-2 loss. Making his second consecutive start and third straight All-Star appearance overall, Thomas’ homer came with a man on in the fourth inning.