Here’s a look at what happened on this date (Nov. 2) in White Sox history:
*1937, LUKE GETS VOTES: Catcher Luke Sewell was the White Sox leading vote getter in the voting for the 1937 American League MVP voting, the results of which were released on this date.
Sewell finished fifh with 22 points (Detroit’s Charlie Gehringer won the award with 78 points). Other Sox players getting votes were Mike Kreevich, 10th; Rip Radcliff, 15th and Luke Appling, 17th.
*1938, STRATTON THE ONLY ONE: Pitcher Monty Stratton was the only White Sox player who received votes in the 1938 American League MVP voting, the results of which were released on this date.
Stratton finished 15th with 15 points, which was third among pitchers. Jimmie Foxx won the award with 305 points.
*1960, MINNIE IS NO. 4! White Sox outfielder Minnie Minoso finished fourth in the American League MVP voting, garnering 141 points, including two first place votes.
Minoso, who hit .311 with 20 home runs and 105 RBIs in 154 games, finished behind winner Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle and Brooks Robinson.
Other Sox showing up on ballots were Al Smith, who was sixth; Roy Sievers, who was seventh; Nellie Fox, who was 18th; Luis Aparicio, who was 21st and Gerry Staley, who was 23rd.
*1988, ROOKIE RESULTS: The White Sox Dave Gallagher and Melido Perez both received votes in the American League Rookie of the Year balloting, the results of which were released on this day.
Gallagher, an outfielder, finished fifth with 18 points. He earned two first place votes after hitting .303 in 101 games. Perez, a pitcher, finished sixth with nine points. The right-hander was 12-9 with a 3.79 ERA in 32 starts for the Sox.
Oakland shortstop Walt Weiss won the award with 103 points.
*1993, CY MCDOWELL: Jack McDowell was rewarded for a phenomenal season with the American League’s Cy Young Award, the results of which were released by the Baseball Writers Association of America on this date.
McDowell went 22-10 with a 3.37 ERA as the ace of the staff which was a driving force behind the White Sox charge to the American League West title.
“I just keep grinding away day to day,” said McDowell, who was in the midst of involved contract negotiations with the Sox. “I’ve been at the top of the heap for a few years now and that takes a while to sink in.”
“Black Jack,” who led the A.L. in wins and shutouts, received 21 of the 28 first-place votes in easily outpointing runnerup Randy Johnson.
McDowell was the third Cy Young winner in Sox history, joining Early Wynn in 1959 and LaMarr Hoyt in 1983.
“I’m thrilled for Jack,” Sox general manager Ron Schueler said in the Chicago Tribune. “I think he fully deserved it. And the way he won it — impressively — I thought he should have. He’s just been so consistent the last four years.”