THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: NOV. 12/Fox MVP!

[StatManDu]

THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: NOV. 12

 

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1959: White Sox second baseman Nellie Fox was voted American League Most Valuable Player in balloting released by the Baseball Writers Association of America on this date. Fox outpolled teammate and runnerup Luis Aparicio in becoming the first Sox player to win the award. Fox was the catalyst for the White Sox pennant winning club, hitting .306 with 191 hits, 34 doubles and six triples. Fox also led league second basemen in games, putouts, assists and fielding percentage. In addition to Aparicio, White Sox ace Early Wynn was third, centerfielder Jim Landis was seventh, catcher Sherm Lollar was ninth, pitcher Bob Shaw was 20th and pitcher Gerry Staley was 29th.

 

1987: The White Sox and new general manager Larry Himes started the process of getting the team younger by trading former 20-game winner Richard Dotson along with reliever Scott Nielsen to the New York Yankees for slugging first baseman Dan Pasqua, catcher Mark Salas and pitcher Steve Rosenberg. Dotson won 17 games and Nielsen pitched sparinginly over two years for the Yankees. Pasqua went on to have a fairly productive career in his seven years with the White Sox. The left-handed hitter reached double figures in homers in each year between 1988 and 1991 with a career-best 20 roundtrippers in 1988. After hitting 18 homers in 1991, Pasqua’s production decreased steadily. He was released after appearing in just 11 games in 1994

 

[buckweaver]

And this same Dan Pasqua was, I believe, the first player to hit a home run to the concourse at the New Comiskey Park. To further illustrate what a great trade that was, that palindromatic catcher acquired by the Pale Hose returned to the Chicago organization this year as bullpen coach.

[StatManDu]

Indeed, Dan The Man launched a 484-foot shot onto the concourse very early in the history of New Comiskey Park. I was sitting next to the gent who determined the length of that blast and there was much controversy over its distance. When that number was determined, there were gasps and we were wondering if the Sox were playing in a launching pad

 

Mark Salas, affectionately known as "The Chief"

[klaus kinski]

I was there for the Pasqua HR-and I still believe it was farther than that and was the longest HR hit there-It cleared the concourse and hit the advertising sign.

 

Also didnt Nellie Fox only strike out like 13 times in his MVP year?

[BigEdWalsh]

I was there for the Pasqua HR-and I still believe it was farther than that and was the longest HR hit there-It cleared the concourse and hit the advertising sign.

 

Also didnt Nellie Fox only strike out like 13 times in his MVP year?

Want some amazing Fox stats? He never struck out more than 18 times in a season and regularly had over 600 ABs. He struck out a total of 216 times in his career (9232 official ABs). He averaged a strikeout something like once every 42 ABs.