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On April 24, 1901, the Chicago White Sox hosted the first major league game in American League history, defeating the Cleveland Blues 8-2. The game was attended by approximately 9,000 to 14,000 fans and lasted just an hour and a half.
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On this day 94 years ago, Bill Cissell was shipped east to Cleveland. | (Photo by Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images)
1901
It wasnât planned this way, but three games in other cities were postponed by rain, putting the White Sox in position to host the first major league game in American League history. Some 9,000 fans at South Side Park â or maybe it was 14,000, reports conflict â saw the home club beat the Cleveland Blues, 8-2. The White Sox scored five times in the first inning, and ran the score to 7-0 in the first two frames. Still, the win took just an hour-and-a-half to complete.
Roy Patterson started, and got the complete-game win. Outfielder Billy Hoy took the first White Sox at-bat. Fred Hartmanâs single scored the first two runs in (MLB) American League history.
Hoy was deaf and mute, and referred to himself by his nickname, Dummy â correcting people who called him William. In order for Hoy to understand what the umpires were calling, the arbitrators came up with a series of hand signals indicating safe/out and ball/strike.
The ceremonial first ball, by the way, was supposed to be thrown out by Robert Burke, special counsel to the mayor of Chicago. Burke declined, however, stating that he was afraid the ball might get hit back to him. (True story!)
1932
The White Sox traded infielder Bill Cissell and righty reliever Jim Moore to Cleveland for utilityman Johnny Hodapp and outfielder Bob Seeds. For a four-player deal it was a nothingburger of a trade, but the White Sox probably got the short end of the stick: Moore reported to the minors and never played another MLB game but Cissell was great for the remainder of the season (2.4 WAR, .320/.354/.440), while Seeds slashed .290/.342/.372 for 0.8 WAR in full-time play and Hodapp was terrible (-0.6 WAR despite being just two years removed from leading the AL in hits and doubles.
The game marked the first major league game in American League history, with the White Sox defeating the Cleveland Blues.
Roy Patterson was the starting pitcher for the White Sox and earned the complete-game win.
Reports indicate that between 9,000 and 14,000 fans attended the first White Sox game.
Fred Hartman's single scored the first two runs in American League history during the game.

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1946
Ed Walsh, the second-best pitcher by WAR in White Sox history and author of a six-year run in the majors more dominant than anyone, ever, was elected to the Hall of Fame.
1955
In a game at Kansas City just one day after the White Sox set a major league record with 29 runs, White Sox starterDick Donovan was hit early and often by the Athletics. When manager Marty Marion came out to take the ball from him, Donovan â making his starting debut with the White Sox and showing his competitive spirit by being concerned about a possible return trip to the minors â refused to give it up!
Marion had to reassure Dick that heâd remain in the rotation before Donovan would turn the ball over and leave the field. That season, heâd win 13 of 17 decisions before an emergency appendectomy felled him in late July.
That injury may have cost the White Sox the pennant, as Donovan wasnât the same after the surgery and the Sox finished in third place, five games behind the Yankees at 91-63-1.
1994
Still mired in a somewhat slow start for a defending division champion, the White Sox lost to Detroit, 7-6. Chicago blew two leads, and then lost the game itself after rallying to tie in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Why is this loss notable? White Sox No. 4 and 5 hitters, Julio Franco and Robin Ventura, hit back-to-back homers â twice, and in consecutive plate appearances in the game.
In the top of the sixth, tied 3-3, Franco led off with a homer to deep right field, and Ventura repeated the act. In the eighth, down 6-4, Franco again led off with a solo shot, and Ventura tied the game with a homer.
The loss (on a Cecil Fielder single in the ninth) dropped the White Sox to 11-7, tied for first in the AL Central.
2010
With a 7-11 record, it was still far from a magical season. But the White Sox accomplished something that had never happened before in their history: walk-off home runs on back-to-back days. In this game, Alex RĂos clocked a two-out walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Mariners and David Aardsma, 5-4. The Seattle reliever completely melted down in the ninth, entering up 4-2 and giving up a one-out home run to Paul Konerko to move the White Sox closer. An A.J. Pierzynski fly out and Carlos Quentin walk later, the stage was set for RĂosâ record-setter.
On April 23, it was Andruw Jones who achieved the feat, clocking a full-count, two-out pitch out for a 7-6 White Sox win in front of 24,653 happy fans.
Now, this was NOT the first time the White Sox had won consecutive games on walk-off homers, but the previous time, the wins came on the same day. J.C. Martin and Ken Berry upended Cleveland with game-ending homers on July 25, 1967.