Brett Ballantini

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Chicago Tribune 1903It was a tale of two games. The first nine innings, played to a tie, was full of hitting and sloppy fielding (12 errors, six per team). The second nine, also played to a tie, featured a pitcher’s duel that ended in the dark. The White Sox and Highlanders (Yankees) played the longest game in American League history (and just shy of the MLB record set a year earlier between the Colts and Pirates), squeezing in 18 innings in fewer than four hours.

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Focus on Sport/Getty Images 1914In a telegram discovered in 2012, White Sox owner Charles Comiskey told scout George Mills that the asking price for pitcher Babe Ruth was too high at $16,000. At the time, Ruth was playing for the minor league Baltimore Orioles. Comiskey had sent Mills to scout the best Orioles players on June 9. Millsgave Comiskeya list of six players he thought were the best, with Ruth among them.

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Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images 1919White Sox center fielder Happy Felsch tied a 15-year-old record set by Harry Bay for most chances in a nine-inning game: 12. He had 11 putouts and one assist (Jack Graney, doubled off of first base) in the 3-2 loss to Cleveland at Comiskey Park. That record still stands in the American League, since tied by has not been surpassed. The first to tie was White Sox center fielder Johnny Mostil, on May 22, 1928.

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1913Behind Ed Walsh’s shutout, the White Sox beat the St. Louis Browns, 2-0, in the second game of a doubleheader at Comiskey Park. It was the team’s 1,000th victory. Outfielder Shano Collins drove in both runs for the Sox in the win. Walsh’s shutout was actually the second attempt at 1,000 wins for the White Sox.

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Michael Ivins/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images 1901Already 29-20 and tied for first in the American League’s first season as a major league, the White Sox began a run of 10 straight wins with a shutout of the Philadelphia A’s, 4-0. Clark Griffith got the complete-game victory, his 10th win of the season. By the end of the streak, the White Sox were three games up in the AL.