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The
Chicago White Sox are a Major League
baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois.
The White Sox are a member of the Central
Division of the American League. From
1991 to the present, the White Sox have
played in U.S. Cellular Field (previously
known as New Comiskey Park).
They are most prominently nicknamed
"the South Siders",
differentiating from the North Side
dwelling Chicago Cubs; "the Pale
Hose"; and sometimes by the national
media as "the ChiSox", a
combination of "Chicago" and
"Sox" (as opposed to the
BoSox). Other nicknames include "the
Go-Go Sox, a reference to 1959 AL
Champions, who got that nickname;
"the Good Guys", a reference to
the team's one time motto "Good guys
wear black", coined by Ken
"Hawk" Harrelson; and "the
Black Sox", the name attributed to
the scandal-tainted 1919 team. Most fans
refer to the team as simply "the
Sox".
One of the American League's eight
charter franchises, the club was founded
in Chicago in 1901. Then the Chicago
White Stockings, after the original White
Stockings vacated the name to become the
Cubs. At this time, the team inhabited
South Side Park. In 1910, the team moved
into historic Comiskey Park, which they
would inhabit for more than eight
decades. It was there that, in 1919, the
infamous Black Sox Scandal occurred.
Afterwards, the team would endure 88
years of hardship, attributed to the
Curse of the Black Sox, that would end
when the team won the World Series in
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