South Side Sox · Mar 12, 2023
Today in White Sox History: March 12
No, Adam Dunn wasn’t making a comeback. Will Ferrell appeared in a Spring Training game for the White Sox on this day, eight years ago.1921
All eight Black Sox (Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicotte, Lefty Williams, Swede Risberg, Fred McMullin, Chick Gandil, Happy Felsch and even Buck Weaver) are suspended for life by commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. None will play in the Major Leagues again. Jackson is banned for life, despite hitting .375 in the sordid 1919 World Series; Weaver is banned not for throwing the Series, but simply for knowing of the plot and not reporting it.
Thus, the only club capable of fending off the emerging New York Yankee dynasty was destroyed.
1973