South Side Sox · Jan 1, 2025
Today in White Sox History: January 1
Eleven years before his World Series appearance with the White Sox, Earl Torgeson was attempting defensive wizardry in the Fall Classic with the Boston Braves.Brett Ballantini has written about baseball, basketball and sometimes hockey for the NBA, MLB, NHL, and Slam, Hoop, Sporting News, the Athletic, Sports Illustrated, South Side Hit Pen, Sox Populi, SB Nation and others. He was CSN Chicago’s Blackhawks beat writer when their 49-year Stanley Cup drought ended in 2009-10, and moved to the White Sox beat after that. Brett has run South Side Sox since 2018.
1911
Future general manager of the White Sox, Hank Greenberg, was born in New York City.