THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: AUG 3/Memories of 1986

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Ahh ... 1986. Seems strikingly similar to 2007, doesn't it? Shortly after a euphoric campaign a team of stars starts to falter or age or decline and the Sox start trying out the "gems" of the farm system. In 1986, it was Russ Morman, Bobby Thigpen, Ron Karkovice, John Cangelosi, Ken Williams, Daryl Boston and Joel Skinner ... YIKES! Let's hope the results are better this time around with the likes of Andy Gonzalez, Jerry Owens, Josh Fields and company because 1987, 1988 and the first half of 1989 were some of the darkest days in franchise history and just demonstrated how depleted and ill-equipped the farm system was at that time. It wasn't until Larry Himes started drafting that the Sox experienced their renaissance!

 

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AUGUST 3RD

 

1906: Future Hall of Famer Ed Walsh fired the second of his four career one-hit shutouts in the White Sox 4-0 win over Boston in Chicago. The one-hitter was one of two for Walsh during the White Sox 1906 championship season. Doc White also had two one-hitters for the “Hitless Wonders” that year.

 

1959: Nellie Fox made his sixth consecutive All-Star start at second base in the American League’s 5-3 win in the season’s second Mid-Summer Classic in Los Angeles. Fox went 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI in the first All-Star Game played in California. Luis Aparicio started at shortstop and went 0-for-3. Early Wynn gave up one run in two innings of relief while catcher Sherm Lollar made a late-inning cameo appearance.

 

1982: The White Sox swept a doubleheader from the Yankees in New York. The White Sox took the first game 1-0 and then won the nightcap 14-2. Steve Trout got the win in the opener in what would turn out to be his last in a White Sox uniform. Trout went 5.1 innings and then watchedas Salome Barojas, Kevin Hickey and Dennis Lamp combined for 3.2 of shutout relief. Lamp went the final 1.2 for his third save. Aurelio Rodriguez's RBI single in the fifth accounted for the game's only run. In the nightcap, the Sox banged out 19 hits and got home runs from Harold Baines, Tony Bernazard and Jerry Hairston as the Sox won for the fifth time in a row.

 

1986: Russ Morman fashioned one of the great debuts in White Sox history in a 10-1 win over the Detroit Tigers before 26,737 at Comiskey Park. Morman became just the second player in big league history to log two hits in an inning in his Major League debut. After singling in his first at bat, Morman homered to leadoff the fourth and then delivered an RBI single later in the frame. Morman joined Billy Martin, who accomplished the feat in 1950, as the only big leaguers to hit safely twice in an inning in a big league debut. Morman was believed to be the the first Sox player to homer in his first big league game. Joe Cowley earned his seventh victory and Carlton Fisk and Harold Baines also homered as the Sox prevailed for the fourth time in their last five outings.

 

1990: Frank Thomas, playing in just his second Major League game, drove in the winning run in the White Sox 6-2 win over the Brewers in Milwaukee. Thomas delivered the go-ahead run with a two-run triple off the right field wall in the seventh inning. The triple was Thomas’ first major league hit and helped make a winner out of Greg Hibbard, who went the distance to improve to 9-5. Ivan Calderon homered for the third consecutive game.