THIS DATE IN SOX HISTORY: SEPT 29/'05 clincher; Manuel canned

[StatManDu]

THIS DATE IN SOX HISTORY: SEPT 29TH

 

1917: The White Sox defeated the Yankees 3-1 in New York for their 100th win of the season. Ed Cicotte went the distance and fanned eight for the victory. The 1917 White Sox are the only team in club history to win 100 games and they were the last Southside club to win a World Series until the 2005 team turned the trick.

 

1920: Eight White Sox players were suspended by club owner Charles Comiskey for their part in the 1919 World Series fix. Among the “Eight Men Out” were Sox stalwarts Joe Jackson, Ed Cicotte and Buck Weaver.

 

1971: Leadoff man Bill Melton clubbed two homers –Nos. 31 and 32 of the year -- in the White Sox 2-1 win over the Brewers before 5,106 at Comiskey Park. Wilbur Wood went the distance and fanned 10 for his 22nd victory. Melton was batting leadoff in hopes of getting him a few more at bats as he pursued the American League home run crown. The strategy paid off as Melton finished the campaign with a league-best 33 roundtrippers the next day.

 

1972: Tom Bradley went the distance and struck out 10 for his 13th win in the White Sox 5-1 win at Texas. Bradley also went 1-for-4 to become the last White Sox pitcher to hit safely in the pre-DH era. The designated hitter would be adopted by the AL for 1973.

 

1983: Rookie Mike Warren no-hit the White Sox in the Athletics’ 3-0 win in Oakland. It marked the first time the White Sox had been no-hit since Aug. 1, 1962 when Boston’s Bill Monboquette accomplished the feat.

 

1984: Jerry Hairston tied Smoky Burgess' White Sox career record with his 50th pinch-hit in a 6-2 win at Seattle. Hairston pinch-hit for starting leftfielder LaMarr Hoyt in the first inning to tie the record.

 

1990: The White Sox emerged victorious in the final night game at Old Comiskey Park. Frank Thomas' two-run single in the seventh proved to be the game-winner in the White Sox 5-2 win over Seattle before 42,800. Eric King won his fourth consecutive game and Bobby Thigpen picked up his 56th save on "Turn Out the Lights Night." Seattle’s Alvin Davis hit the final home run at the park in the game.

 

2000: Magglio Ordonez’s two-run homer in the seventh inning gave the AL Central champion White Sox the lead for good and Chris Singleton in the first in-the-park homer by a Sox player at New Comiskey Park in a 6-4 win over the Kansas City Royals before 17,735 on the Southside. The homer was Ordonez’s 32nd of the year and accounted for his 126th RBI, which was the sixth-highest season total in club history. Singleton’s homer was a three-run shot and was just the second in-the-park homer in New ComiskeyPark. Keith Foulke earned his 34th save, the fourth-highest total in franchise history, as the Sox halted a five-game losing streak.

 

2003: The White Sox fired manager Jerry Manuel. According to the White Sox “2003 Season In Review,” Manuel was “relieved of his duties.” The mellow Manuel was 500-471 in his six years as Sox manager. The highlight of his run was the surprising AL Central title in 2000 when the Sox went 95-67, tok the crown by five games and netted the former Sox farmhand the AL Manager of the Year award. What followed was a disappointing performance in a five-game sweep to Seattle in the Division Series. Manuel finished his career fourth in club history in wins, joining Jimmy Dykes (899), Al Lopez (840) and Tony LaRussa (522) as the only managers in Sox history with at least 500 wins.

 

2005: The White Sox clinched the American League Central Divison title with a 4-2 win at Detroit. In what would become a postseason pattern, first baseman Paul Konerko gloved the final out in the victory. The triumph gave the White Sox a three-game lead with three to play plus all the tiebreakers over second place Cleveland. Fourteen wins later, the White Sox would be World Series champions.

Edited October 1, 2007 by StatManDu

[GreatScott82]

Wow this a memorable day in Sox history. Won 100 games back in 1917. Clinched division in '05, Final night game at Old comiskey in 1990, 8 players were suspended for fixing the 1919 world series (including shoeless joe). Wow September 29th is a historic day.

[Yossarian]

THIS DATE IN SOX HISTORY: SEPT 29TH

 

1917: The White Sox defeated the Yankees 3-1 in New York for their 100th win of the season. Ed Cicotte went the distance and fanned eight for the victory. The 1917 White Sox are the only team in club history to win 100 games and they were the last Southside club to win a World Series.

 

Really?

 

 

 

 

 

2003: The White Sox fired manager Jerry Manuel. According to the White Sox “2003 Season In Review,” Manuel was “relieved of his duties.” The mellow Manuel was 500-471 in his six years as Sox manager. The highlight of his run was the surprising AL Central title in 2000 when the Sox went 95-67, tok the crown by five games and netted the former Sox farmhand the AL Manager of the Year award. What followed was a disappointing performance in a five-game sweep to Seattle in the Division Series. Manuel finished his career fourth in club history in wins, joining Jimmy Dykes (899), Al Lopez (840) and Tony LaRussa (522) as the only managers in Sox history with at least 500 wins.

 

Five game sweep?

2005: The White Sox clinched the American League Central Divison title with a 4-2 win at Detroit. In what would become a postseason pattern, first baseman Paul Konerko gloved the final out in the victory. The triumph gave the White Sox a three-game lead with three to play plus all the tiebreakers over second place Cleveland. Fourteen wins later, the White Sox would be World Series champions.

 

Best year ever.

 

[StatManDu]

Made the edit. Thanks