By Woodrow Carroll The Sunday, July 9 Major League Baseball (MLB) inter-league game between host Chicago White Sox and St. Louis Cardinals, was vital with the all-star game on the horizon. The White Sox were 38-53 and the Cardinals 37-52, each 15 games under .500. The game, which featured Eloy
Aurora Area Retired Teachers Association (AARTA) will be host to Strike Out Hunger, a bus trip to the Chicago White Sox game July 30. The charter-bus outing will benefit Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry in Aurora. Dick Schindel, AARTA president, said the public is invited. A tailgate party is included.
Happy birthday and congratulations to an Aurora hero, World War II veteran Dick Miller! He celebrated his 97th birthday the recent weekend and was honored Sunday, June 25 by the Chicago White Sox as the Hero of The Game! A Navy veteran and a recipient of the Purple Heart and
By Woodrow Carroll Thanks to a 4-1 victory over the visiting Boston Red Sox Sunday, June 25, the Chicago White Sox put an end to a quirky losing streak. The White Sox had dropped two games of a three-game series for three weeks, an unhealthy trait the White Sox had
By Woodrow Carroll Chicago White Sox pitcher Lance Lynn struck out 16 Seattle Mariners batters in the White Sox-Mariners’ game Sunday, June 18. Seattle still won, 5-1. Lynn’s production tied a franchise record for most strikeouts in a game by a White Sox pitcher, held by Sox southpaw Jack Harshman
Aurora Area Retired Teachers Association (AARTA) will be host to Strike Out Hunger, bus trips to Chicago Cubs and White Sox Major League Baseball (MLB) games to benefit Aurora food pantries. Dick Schindel, AARTA president, said the public is invited. Tailgate parties are included. Attendees are asked to bring a
By Woodrow Carroll After falling, 6-5, to the Miami Marlins Sunday, June 11 at Guaranteed Rate Field, the host Chicago White Sox record dropped to 29-38 in the American League Central. The three-game series with the Marlins, which started on a positive note, a 2-1 Sox victory, ended with two
By Woodrow Carroll It was a long-time coming for Jose Abreu, his first home run of this season and in the Houston Astros’ uniform. The game was Sunday, May 28 in Oakland. After playing nine seasons for the Chicago White Sox, in which he hit 243 home runs, Abreu signed
By Woodrow Carroll Were it not for a 4-3 victory over the visiting Baltimore Orioles Sunday, June 26, the Chicago White Sox would have been swept by a team that has been a Major League Baseball (MLB) punching bag much of the past decade. In Chicago for a four-game series
By Woodrow Carroll Just when things were starting to get dark for the Chicago White Sox, a ray of sunshine appeared last weekend. Having dropped three straight games in Toronto and the opener of a three-game series with the host Tampa Bay Rays, the future was starting to look bleak
By Woodrow Carroll Thanks to a 3-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox last Sunday, the Chicago White Sox moved over the .500 record in what has already become a topsy-turvy season. Sunday’s victory over the Red Sox made it six straight in the ‘W’ column for Chicago and upped
Aurora area retired teachers will be host to a White Sox game fundraiser as a benefit for the Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry in Aurora. Dick Schindel, president of Aurora Area Retired Teachers Association, made the announcement earlier this week. He said AARTA invites the public to “Strike Out Hunger,” a
By Woodrow Carroll The Chicago White Sox second home game of the this season well could end up being the least attended home game of the season. It has been the case more than once in previous seasons for the Sox, and, for Major League Baseball (MLB) clubs in the
By Woodrow Carroll Although it was certainly a small sample, fans of the Chicago White Sox had to be pleased with the way things unfolded last weekend. Playing in Detroit to open the 2022 Major League Baseball season, the Chicago White Sox captured two victories in three games with the
By Woodrow Carroll Entering last weekend’s series with the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago White Sox likely had a few mild concerns; not panic. It was just a mild concern given that the Sox had lost five of seven games with AL Central Division rival Kansas City in the prior two
By Woodrow Carroll Through Sunday, Jose Abreu of the Chicago White Sox’ was the team leader in runs batted in (RBI) with 78.. Abreu will have to do something spectacular to average an RBI per game which he did last season when he drove in 60 runs in the shortened
By Woodrow Carroll It may not rank as the quickest comeback in Chicago White Sox history, yet, what the White Sox did in their final two games against the Houston Astros Saturday and Sunday, 10-1 and 4-0 victories, certainly made with the team and fans rejoice and heave a sign
By Woodrow Carroll Surprises, streaks, and situations, have peppered Major League Baseball (MLB) historically. It was four weeks ago that life took a dark turn for the Chicago White Sox. No sooner had the White Sox captured a victory over the Tampa Bay Rays June 16 to give the team
