The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team that compete in MLB's American League Central division. The club play their home games at Guaranteed Rate Field on the South Side of Chicago.
📜 Chicago White Sox History
While the Chicago Cubs might rule the Windy City's North Side, the Chicago White Sox will always be the best loved team for the city's Southsiders.
One of the American League's 8 charter franchises, the White Sox were established in 1894. The team was known as the Sioux City Cornhuskers, St Paul Saints, and Chicago White Stockings before taking on their current name in 1904.
After joining MLB in 1901, success came quickly for the White Sox, and the team won their first 2 World Series titles in 1906 and 1917. Two years later, the Sox appeared in their third World Series – an event that would later become infamous for the "Black Sox Scandal", in which 8 members of the White Sox were accused of game-fixing. Despite being acquitted in a 1921 public trial, all 8 players, including "Shoeless" Joe Jackson of Field of Dreams fame, were permanently banned from professional baseball.
Since the scandal, the White Sox have only appeared in the World Series twice – in 1959, when they lost to the LA Dodgers, and in 2005, when they defeated the Houston Astros to notch up World Series title number 3. The 88 seasons it took the White Sox to win their third World Series is one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history.
While historic Comiskey Park was home to the White Sox for much of the team's history (1910–1990), Guaranteed Rate Field has acted as the White Sox' home venue since 1991. Built on the same site as Comiskey, it is here that the South Side franchise hopes to build a future worthy of its long and fabled past.
