White Sox lose the best-of-nine World Series to the Cincinnati Reds
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 9, according to Tribune archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 86 degrees (2010)
- Low temperature: 30 degrees (2000)
- Precipitation: 2.27 inches (1954)
- Snowfall: Trace (1925)
Chicago Tribune Archives
Chicago Tribune cartoonist John T. McCutcheon’s response to the White Sox’s victory over the Cubs in Game 6 of the 1906 World Series, published October 15, 1906. (Chicago Tribune)
1906: The Chicago World Series, pitting the Chicago Cubs (“Spuds”) against the Chicago White Sox (“Hitless Wonders”), began with a 2–1 Sox victory at West Side Grounds (also known as West Side Park; formerly at Congress Parkway and Loomis, Harrison and Throop streets). It would be the last series meeting between teams from the same city until the Yankees and Giants, then both playing at the Polo Grounds in New York, met in 1921 for the first of three consecutive Fall Classics.
As Tribune reporter Don Pierson noted in 1996: “Because professional football, basketball and hockey had not yet been invented, the 1906 baseball season had little competition for sporting excitement in a city still rebuilding after the fire of 1871. The World Wars had not even been invented, so a World Series was indeed an event.” »
The Cubs entered the series as 3-1 favorites. Tribune baseball writer Hugh S. Fullerton, however, disagreed and chose the Sox. His editor found Fullerton’s choice so ridiculous that he refused to print the article until after the World Series – when the Sox won the pennant 4 games to 2.
“The Cubs were so upset that they won the next two World Series,” Tribune reporter Bob Verdi wrote in 1996.
1919: The White Sox lost the best-of-nine World Series (Major League Baseball decided to switch from the best-of-seven format due to post-World War I demands) to the Cincinnati Reds.
Eight White Sox players were accused of hosting the World Series. Although they earned the nickname “Black Sox,” the men were acquitted by a jury that deliberated for only 2 hours and 47 minutes.
Chicago White Sox players conspired to throw the 1919 World Series. Here’s how the Tribune reported on it.
However, a day after their acquittal, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis ruled that the players allegedly involved – Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicotte, Oscar Emil “Happy” Felsch, Chick Gandil, Frederick William McMullin, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver and Lefty Williams – were banned for life from baseball. organized.
1922: A memorial to children’s poet Eugene Field has been dedicated at the Lincoln Park Zoo. The monument, depicting a “dream lady” sprinkling flowers on two sleeping children, was revealed by two of Field’s grandchildren 27 years after his death. Field wrote “Wynken, Blynken and Nod” and “The Sugar Plum Tree,” both carved into the granite monument. The memorial was later moved to the northeast corner of the Helen V. Branch Primate House.
2009: President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.”
This happened just 11 months after celebrating his election to the presidency at Grant Park and nine months after his inauguration. Obama was the fourth American president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the third to do so while in office (the other two being Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson).
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The awarding of one of the world’s highest honors to Obama, who has yet to score a major foreign policy success, was met with gasps from the audience at the announcement ceremony in Oslo, Reuters reported.
Obama, as if accepting the unusual nature of this award, accepted it “as a call to action” rather than as a reward for achievements.
2016: Pope Francis has named Blase Cupich a cardinal. Cupich was raised the following month, at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.
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