Since the Cubs and White Sox are meeting again this weekend, it got me to thinking about the long history of the two franchises and how they have gone up and down in popularity among Chicago baseball fans over that shared history.
We stand, I believe, at a possible crossroads in time where the White Sox have a chance to hugely increase their popularity in Chicago, perhaps at the expense of the Cubs.
To understand why, here’s a bit of the history of baseball in Chicago and its back-and-forth between the Cubs and Sox since the dawn of the 20th Century.