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Chicago White Sox (3x World Series Champions)

Ray: I mean if he was supposed to be throwing it, how do you explain the fact he hit .375 for the series and didn't commit one error, huh?
Karin: I can't.
Ray: Twelve hits, including the Series' only home run. And they said he was trying to lose!
Karin: It's ridiculous!
 
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Came across this the other day, interesting read for you Sabermetrics fans:

http://www.southsidesox.com/2011/1/7/1920432/before-blogs-there-was-warren-newson

Often times when I'm doing some research for a post or the book, I'll find someone or something from last century and think, "Man, it would've been fun to write about that real-time." Sometimes it's about a trade or controversy, but I find myself most interested in the rise of certain players.

After all, it's easy to figure out what happened after guys made it to the big leagues. But back when Geocities was but a glint in some guy's eye and the small-market teams weren't completely resigned to losing their best players, minor-league coverage was hard to find. Aside from the fleeting references to former outposts like Utica (where you can't buy steamed hams) and Hickory and the occasional stat boxes for Calgary in the agate pages of the sports section, players were largely irrelevant until they stuck in the big leagues.

I take the end results for granted most of the time, but sometimes I'll find a player on Baseball-Reference.com, click off his page, and then think, "Hey, wait a minute."

Today's subject is one of those players. And in fact, he might be the double-takeiest player of them all.

His name is Warren Newson, and he might have been born 15 years too early.

cont.
 
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On this day in sports history in...

1979 -- "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park goes awry when Chicago White Sox fans setting fire to disco records between games of a doubleheader with the Detroit Tigers refuse to return to their seats.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpQfCcsqQ0E"]YouTube - ‪1979 Disco Demolition Night, Local News Coverage‬‏[/ame]


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