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May 1, 1951: Minnie Miñoso homers in first plate appearance for White Sox; Mickey Mantle boosts Yankees with first career homer
The long love affair between Minnie Miñoso, the first black player in White Sox history, and South Siders began with a bang in his first game with his new club.
August 18, 1946: Artie Wilson turns in a star performance in Negro Leagues East-West Classic
After the East defeated the West, 6-3, in Washington, D.C., on August 15, the two All-Star squads went west to Chicago for the annual game that had originated in 1933 and had been played at Comiskey Park every season since then.1 The Pittsburgh Courier’s Wendell Smith reported that, since its inception, “spectators have paid out $383,000 and 434,000 have witnessed the classics” and asserted, “No other sports event attracts such a crowd.
The Last Best Day: When Chicago Had Three First-Place Teams
At the close of play on July 17, 1915, the American League’s Chicago White Sox led the league by 1½ games, the Federal League’s Chicago Whales had a half-game lead, and the National League’s Chicago Cubs were tied for first. The feat of one city having three first-place teams has not since been repeated, since there have not been three major leagues since that season. (This statement, of course, assumes not counting Brooklyn as part of New York City.) All three teams slumped after July 17.
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Glenn Beckert had a good-but-not-great career for the good-but-not-great Chicago Cubs teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Those teams starred a quartet of baseball immortals in Ernie Banks, Ferguson Jenkins, Ron Santo, and Billy Williams. Steadily and sometimes spectacularly manning the keystone sack and batting second, Beckert made four All-Star teams, received MVP votes three different times, and won one Gold Glove.
July 23, 1967: Red Sox end road trip on 10-game winning streak
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Glenn Beckert had a good-but-not-great career for the good-but-not-great Chicago Cubs teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Those teams starred a quartet of baseball immortals in Ernie Banks, Ferguson Jenkins, Ron Santo, and Billy Williams. Steadily and sometimes spectacularly manning the keystone sack and batting second, Beckert made four All-Star teams, received MVP votes three different times, and won one Gold Glove.
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A run-scoring-machine leadoff hitter with great speed (408 career steals) and good power (235 homers), Johnny Damon had “good range defensively but … one of the worst outfield arms in the big leagues.”1 Offensively, Damon had his best years with Kansas City in 2000 and Boston in 2004, and won World Series titles with both the Red Sox in 2004 and the Yankees in 2009.
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