“Sleepy” Bill Burns fired a one-hitter, defeating Walter Johnson and the Senators in Washington, 1-0.
If that name sounds familiar, it’s because Burns would become one of the ringleaders in the plot to fix the World Series 10 years later. It was he who had the idea of going to gambler Arnold Rothstein to get the financial backing to rig the White Sox-Reds World Series of 1919.
1910
Lee Tannehill hit the first White Sox home run at Comiskey Park, when his ball rolled under the fence.