
September 24, 1920: Duster Mails outduels Red Faber as Cleveland increases lead amid fix rumors
The September 24, 1920, edition of the Akron Beacon Journal blared…

April 12, 1918: Red Faber, White Sox win exhibition game in epicenter of influenza pandemic
The Chicago White Sox are pictured on April 12, 1918,…

September 24, 1919: White Sox clinch AL pennant on Shoeless Joe Jackson walk-off single
With 29 wins under his belt, Chicago White Sox ace Eddie Cicotte…

September 27, 1920: ‘The end of some inevitable chain’: Chicago’s final Black Sox game
“Major leaguers were our gods. We weren’t worshipful. We…

October 1, 1919: Favored White Sox, Cicotte pummeled by Reds in World Series opener
When Eddie Cicotte's first pitch crossed the middle of home plate…

October 2, 1919: Reds take advantage of Lefty Williams’s wildness in Game 2
After the Cincinnati Reds stunned the “baseball dope” in…
October 3, 1919: White Sox rookie Dickey Kerr turns tables on Reds, gamblers in Game 3
After the Chicago White Sox lost the first two games of the 1919…

October 4, 1919: Ring’s pitching, Cicotte’s errors lead Reds over White Sox in Game 4
Thanks to Dickey Kerr serving his teammates a dose of rejuvenating…

October 6, 1919: Hod Eller scatters three hits, fans nine to lead Reds in Game 5
Boasting a three-games-to-one lead after four tilts, the Reds…
October 7, 1919: Rookie Dickey Kerr keeps White Sox alive in Game 6
The Cincinnati Reds could be forgiven for celebrating too hard…

October 8, 1919: Eddie Cicotte returns to form in Game 7
Optimism was in short supply among Cincinnati Reds fans on the…

October 9, 1919: Cincinnati Reds beat the Black Sox to win first World Series championship
After wins in Games Six and Seven in Cincinnati by scores of…

August 14, 1919: Babe Ruth hits 17th home run to set new American League single-season record
“How many home runs did Babe Ruth make today?”
This question…

July 21, 1919: Horrified White Sox fans witness Wingfoot Express blimp disaster in Chicago
The Wingfoot Air Express lands at Grant Park in Chicago during…

May 31, 1919: Gandil, Speaker drop gloves for ‘old time fistfight’ as White Sox top Indians
Chick Gandil and Tris Speaker were cut from the same cloth. They…

May 14, 1919: Chicago’s Eddie Cicotte begins scoreless streak by shutting out Red Sox, 1-0
Entering a summer when the boxing world famously crowned a new…

April 23, 1919: Lefty Williams, White Sox win in Kid Gleason’s managerial debut
When the Chicago White Sox took the field for Opening Day in…

April 14, 1917: White Sox ace Eddie Cicotte hurls no-hitter at Sportsman’s Park
Chicago Tribune sportswriter I.E. Sanborn confidently predicted…

October 6, 1912: Chief Wilson, Shoeless Joe Jackson set triples records in NL, AL
Pittsburgh’s Chief Wilson set the major league single-season…
June 29, 1905: Moonlight Graham’s only major-league game
If not for W.P. Kinsella, it’s likely that Archibald "Moonlight"…

May 11, 1919: Hod Eller tosses first no-hitter at Crosley Field
Hod Eller displayed a “splendid exhibition of perfect hurling,”…