Today in White Sox History: July 22

Getty Images/Getty Images Circa 1960, American baseball executive Bill Veeck, owner of the Chicago White Sox, sitting at a desk and smiling. He was known as the ‘P T Barnum of Baseball.’1941

Slick fielding White Sox first baseman Joe Kuhel tied a major league record set in 1905 by recording 40 putouts in a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Athletics. Kuhel recorded 17 putouts in the first game and 23 in the second one. The Sox split the two games played at Shibe Park, winning the first, 14-0, and losing the nightcap, 3-0.

1959

An afternoon game at Comiskey Park saw the Sox down Boston, 5-4, to move into first place for good in the American League. The Sox rallied from a 4-2 deficit with…