A look at what happened on this date (Oct. 21) in White Sox history:
*1959, CHAMPS HONORED: Nellie Fox, Sherm Lollar and Early Wynn, key members of the White Sox pennant winners, were named to the Associated Press’ Major League Baseball All-Star team, which was printed in the Tribune’s editions on this date in 1959.
Fox, a second baseman, would win the AL MVP award for that season while Wynn would earn the Cy Young award. Lollar, a catcher, led the Sox with 22 home runs.
Sox making the second team were outfielder Jim Landis and shortstop Luis Aparicio, who was edged out by the Cubs’ Ernie Banks by three votes for first-team honors.
*1976, THE BRIDGEPORT BEARS? With Soldier Field scheduled to be renovated in 1978, the Chicago Tribune published an article on this day headlined “Bears may play 1978 season in Comiskey Park.”
The first paragraph read “The CHICAGO Bears probably will be playing in Comiskey Park in 1978.”
History tells us that the Bears never graced the arches at 35th and Shields in ‘78. In fact, the team played every home game in 1978 at Soldier Field.
A home slate at Comiskey Park would have been the Bears’ first appearance there since a 14-6 win over the Chicago Cardinals before a crowd of 43,375 on Dec. 8, 1957.
The Cardinals called Comiskey Park home from 1922 to 1958.
Also on this date in 1976, the White Sox sold catcher Phil Roof to the Toronto Blue Jays. Roof played in just four games for the 1976 White Sox after five seasons in Minnesota.
*1994, ARB NEWS: The White Sox declined to offer salary arbitration to pitcher Jose DeLeon, DH Julio Franco, catcher Bob Melvin and outfielder Dan Pasqua, making them free agents. Franco, a key part of that excellent 1994 club, eventually signed to play in Japan. Only DeLeon would be brought back for the 1995 season.