were the white sox originally called black sox?
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no, they were only called the black sox after they threw the 1919 world series.
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I would like the Red Sox. It will be tough to unseat the White Sox. They are essentially the same team that won the WS last year *plus* they added Jim Thome and Javier Vazquez. Thome's been hotter than hell and Vazquez pitched a great game yesterday against KC.
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The World Series began in 1903.  At that time, the entire baseball world was the U.S.  We've kept the name because of inertia/tradition/laziness or whatever reason you like.
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baseball:\nBoston Red Sox\nChicago White Sox\n\nbasketball:\nOrlando Magic\nMiami Heat\nUtah Jazz\n\nhockey:\nColorado Avalanche\nMinnesota Wild\nTampa Bay Lightning
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These two URL's will help you....\n\nYankees\nhttp://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/\n\nRed Sox\nhttp://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/\n\nClick on the year you want and from there you can easily click on the names one by one to see where they played the year prior.
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The 1919 White Sox are a much-overrated team by historians (and ESPN). \n\nEveryone seems to think that they would have easily beaten the Reds in the World Series that year.\n\nIt so happens that the best single season won/loss percentage during the 1910's decade was by the 1912 Boston Red Sox, who finished 105-47 (.691).\n\nGuess which team had the SECOND best won/loss percentage of any single-season team of that decade?\n\nThat would be the 1919 Cincinnati Reds, who finished 96-44 (.686)  Fewer games were played in seasons during some of the World War I years, which deprived them of the distinction of winning over 100 games.\n\nThe 1919 White Sox finished 88-52 (.629), only 3 and 1/2 games ahead of second place Cleveland... the White Sox were hardly a dominant team. \n\nTheir greatness was quite exaggerated in the "Eight Men Out" film (a movie which I enjoyed, btw).\n\n\nWe could nominate the 1906 Cubs, who finished 116-36, a full 20 games ahead of the 2nd place NY Giants, and 23 ahead of third-place Pittsburgh. This was by far the best W/L Pct of any team of the 20th (or 21st) centuries.\n\nThat Cubs team featured four Hall of Famers (Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, Frank Chance and Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown"), plus a fifth player, pitcher Ed Reulbach, who would have been a H o Famer had the Veteran's Committee of the 1940s done their job properly.\n\nThe Cubs also outscored their opponents that year 705 to 381.\n\nThe 1906-1910 Chicago Cubs had the best 5-year W/L record in history, by far...no one else approaches it, not even the best 5 year streak of the Yankees.\n\nThe Cubs lost the World Series to the cross-town White Sox in 1906 in a major upset, won the series in 1907 and 1908, and lost the series in 1910 to Connie Mack's Philadelphia A's.\n\nHeck, even in 1909, the Cubs went 104-49, but finished 6 and 1/2 games behind Honus Wagner's Pittsburgh Pirates, who won 110 games that year.
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HECK NO!!  GO WHITE SOX!!!!
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No, I couldn't name them all. But I know quite a few, and I do know where to find the complete roster and stats:\nhttp://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/2004.shtml
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the White Sox the 2005 World champs of Baseball
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Jonathan Pabelbon. Boston Red Sox.
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Boston Red Sox\nChicago White Sox\nMaimi Heat\nOrlando Magic\nUtah Jazz\nTampa Bay Lightning\nColorado Avalanche\nMinnesota Wild
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When the World Series was first played in 1903 other countries weren't playing baseball.  It may have been presumptuous then to call it the "World" Series but, considering the high percentage of international players in the U.S., I think it is very appropriate now.  As for the racist comment:  in 1903, yes it was, not even African Americans played in the major leagues.  Now the best of the best from all over the world play & become millionaires here.  So it could hardly be considered racist now.
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England.  I borrowed this from another answer: 'The earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "base-ball," showing a set-up roughly similar to the modern game, and a rhymed description of the sport.'\n\nIn the United States, the rules were first codified in 1845.  It is based on two English games, rounders and cricket.  There are references to baseball in the USA going back to 1791.  Baseball as we know it was also once called the "New York" game, there being a variant more like cricket that was called the "Massachusetts" game.  Nonetheless, these developments were American in origin.\n\nChina isn't even in the running.  There wasn't even that much direct trade with China when baseball was developed, though it was growing.  India was the big market.  Whatever the Chinese were playing, it was their own game, not baseball, which was introduced later.
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Black and White (chi sox colors).\nBabe Ruff is their mascot
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The Chicago white sox was the first.........................\n\nWinning team to ever grace chicago. they even beat the cubs in the only crosstown world series.
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Louis Sockalexis, a Penobscot Indian, was believed to be the first Native American in the major leagues, signed in 1897 by the Cleveland Spiders, later the Cleveland Indians.\nJim Thorpe was also a native american and played in the MLB for 6 years.\n\n\nThis is the only thing that I could find:   Dr. Jeffrey Powers-Beck's, The American Indian Integration of Baseball, detailing the entrance of Native Americans in Major League Baseball
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*****************************************\nwhy would you hate the white sox.\nthey are a bunch of guys no one wanted.  that won the world series.\n-Contreras - Yankees could not wait to get rid of him.  "Take a hike Contreras"\n-Bobby Jenks - was released by the Angels.  no one wanted him.  \n-Mark Buehrle / Jon Garland - loosers in the white sox minor league.  could not hack it in the big league.\n-A.J. Pierzynski - lets not go there.  a trouble maker.  given to the sox.\n-Scott Podsednik - played in the minors  for texas, seattle and milwaukee.  no one really wanted him.\n\nand we can go on and on...\n\n******************************************************