In the finale of the NFL’s first regular season, the Chicago Bears again traveled to Comiskey Park to face their crosstown rivals, the Chicago Cardinals, and again lost, this time 9-0. The loss kept the defending champion (American Professional Soccer Association) Bears scoreless in Comiskey for the season (also having been eliminated, 6-0, two weeks earlier).
Paddy Driscoll scored three field goals, one each in the first, second and third quarters, to provide all the scoring. Driscoll was considered the best kicker in the NFL’s first decade and, in fact, led the league in field goals in 1922 with eight. (He also played 13 games in the infield for the 1917 Cubs, making Driscoll one of the first two-league professionals in American history.)
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About 15,000 rivalry fans from across the city showed up for the game.
The loss kept the former Chicago Staleys (the Staleys renamed the Bears for the NFL) in second place in the NFL with a 9-3 record, with the Cardinals right behind them in third, at 8-3. Because the actual playoffs did not begin in the NFL until 1933, this is how the season ended, with the first-place 10-0-2 Canton Bulldogs considered the first NFL champions.
1935
The White Sox sold the left fielder Al Simmons to the Detroit Tigers for $75,000 (about $1.7 million today). In fact, Chicago had purchased Simmons from Philadelphia along with Mula Haas and Jimmy Dykes three years earlier, on a $100,000 purchase, making this sale three years later pretty solid.
During his three All-Star seasons with the Sox, Simmons produced a very solid 10.6 WAR that included incredible summers of 1933 (5.0 WAR) and 1934 (4.4). The future Hall of Famer was 33 years old at the time of this transaction and would produce just 6.9 WAR over the final eight seasons of his career.
1963
One of the last players of the “Go-Go” Sox era, second baseman Nellie Foxwas traded to the Houston Colt 45’s for pitchers danny murphy and Jim Golden, more cash. Fox was a future Hall of Famer who played for 14 years on the South Side and was named to 12 All-Star teams. He was MVP in 1959 and won three Gold Gloves. In Houston, Fox mentored a young Joe Morgan, who would also make the Hall of Fame.
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Fox’s number 2 was the second number in White Sox history to be retired, in a ceremony on May 1, 1976.
Why was Fox traded? young infielder Don Buford He had hit .336 at Triple-A Indianapolis and was ready to take over at second base in Chicago.
1975
After initially being rejected, American League owners voted to allow Bill Veeck buy from the White Sox Juan Allyn. The deal kept the team in Chicago and ended speculation that the Sox were headed to Seattle, and Charlie Finley’s A’s were headed to the South Side! (Major League Baseball wanted the Sox to move to the Pacific Northwest to end lawsuits brought by the state of Washington, King County and the city of Seattle after the Pilots were moved to Milwaukee before the start of the 1970 season.) Finley, acting in his own interest, was one of two American League owners who refused to approve the sale to Veeck.
It was Veeck’s second time owning the White Sox, the first time from 1959 to July 1961.
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The owners imposed such financial conditions on Veeck They assumed he couldn’t meet them and they might reject him, but somehow the veteran managed. After a speech by Tigers owner John Fetzer, the other owners voted to allow the sale to go through despite many having a personal dislike for Veeck.
After receiving the keys to the club, Veeck and GM Roland Hemond Set up a desk in the hotel lobby during the Winter Meetings with a sign that says “Open for Business.” They weren’t kidding, as the White Sox closed seven deals in two days, led this day by Jim Kaat being sent to the Phillies.
Oh, and since there wasn’t enough activity, it was that day that Veeck fired the manager. Chuck Tanner (so he could discuss the manager’s job with the Oakland Athletics) and hired his old friend and former Chicago manager, Pablo Richards.
1976
Owner Bill Veeck He came up with a unique way to try to bolster his franchise: a “rent a player” approach, which acquired as many players as possible who were about to become free agents. Veeck figured that because those players were playing for new big-money deals, they would play hard every night.
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With that as a backdrop, Veeck traded the former American League Firefighter of the Year winners. rich gossip and Terry Foster to the Pirates for slugger Richie Zisk and launcher Silvio Martínez.
Zisk, in his only season on the South Side, hit 30 home runs and scored 101 runs as the undisputed leader of the “South Side Hitmen,” who shocked baseball by winning 90 games in 1977. Among Zisk’s The home runs that season were a blast into the original center field stands at Comiskey Park beneath the exploding scoreboard, and one over the roof and out of the park down the left field line.
1985
White Sox General Manager Ken Harrelson made a shrewd choice of Rule 5: Bobby Bonillaof the Pirates. Bonilla had a modest rookie season in 1986 in Chicago (0.5 WAR and .256/.352 .333) before being sent back to Pittsburgh on July 23, in exchange for Jose De Leon. While DeLeón was very good for the White Sox in 1986-87 (3.7 WAR in 285 innings), Bonilla rose to stardom and had 30.2 WAR in his career.
1987
In a reloading move for the White Sox, who lost 85, general manager Larry Himes launched launcher floyd railing (coming off a 16-win season) and infielder David Cochrane to the Kansas City Royals in exchange for pitchers Greg Hibbard, Melido Perez, John Davis and chuck support. Both Hibbard and Pérez would help stabilize Chicago’s starting rotation in the early 1990s, combining for 85 wins in a White Sox uniform.
2013
In what would become the best trade of his tenure, the White Sox general manager Rick Hahn got a gem in a three-way deal by getting the outfielder Adam Eaton of the Diamondbacks. Chicago sent pitcher Hector Santiago to Los Angeles. Completing the triangle, the Angels sent Mark Trumbo to Arizona in exchange for Tyler Skaggs.
Eaton posted 16.0 WAR for the White Sox before being sent to Washington in another excellent deal. lucas giolito, Reynaldo Lopez and Dane Dunning.