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1933 Chicago White Sox Season
The 1933 Chicago White Sox season was the team's 33rd season in the major leagues, and its 34th season overall. They finished with a record of 67β83, good enough for 6th place in the American League The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the American League (AL), is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league ..., 31 games behind the first place Washington Senators. Regular season Season standings Record vs. opponents Roster Player stats Batting Starters by position ''Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in'' Other batters ''Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in'' Pitching Starting pitchers ''Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comiskey Park
Comiskey Park was a baseball park in Chicago, Illinois, located in the Armour Square neighborhood on the near-southwest side of the city. The stadium served as the home of the Chicago White Sox of the American League from 1910 through 1990. Built by White Sox owner Charles Comiskey and designed by Zachary Taylor Davis, Comiskey Park hosted four World Series and more than 6,000 Major League Baseball games. Also, in one of the most famous boxing matches in history, the field was the site of the 1937 heavyweight title match in which Joe Louis defeated then champion James J. Braddock in eight rounds that launched Louis' unprecedented 11-plus year run as the heavyweight champion of the world. The Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League also called Comiskey Park home when they were not playing at Normal Park, Soldier Field or Wrigley Field. They won the 1947 NFL Championship Game over the Philadelphia Eagles at Comiskey Park. Much less popular than the Bears, the Cardinals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Haid
Harold Augustine "Hal" Haid (December 21, 1897 β August 13, 1952) was a professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher over parts of six seasons (1919, 1928β1931, 1933) with the St. Louis Browns, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Braves and Chicago White Sox. For his career, he compiled a 14β15 record in 119 appearances, most as a relief pitcher, with a 4.16 earned run average and 103 strikeouts. An alumnus of Belmont Abbey College, Haid was born in Barberton, Ohio and later died in Los Angeles at the age of 54. See also * List of Major League Baseball annual saves leaders The following is a list of annual leaders in saves in Major League Baseball (MLB), with separate lists for the American League and the National League. The list includes several professional leagues and associations that were never part of MLB. ... References 1897 births 1952 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Ohio Belmont Abbey Crusaders baseball players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Dykes
James Joseph Dykes (November 10, 1896 β June 15, 1976) was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a third and second baseman from through , most notably as a member of the Philadelphia Athletics dynasty that won three consecutive American League pennants from 1929 to 1931 and, won the World Series in 1929 and 1930. He played his final six seasons for the Chicago White Sox. Dykes batted over .300 five times during his career and was a member of one of the most feared batting orders in the history of baseball featuring three future Baseball Hall of Fame members (Al Simmons, Jimmie Foxx, and Mickey Cochrane). He also excelled as a defensive player, leading the American League in assists once at second base and twice at third base, ending his career sixth in AL history in games at third base (1,253), and seventh in putouts (1,361), assists (2,403), total chances (3,952) and double plays (199). At the time of his reti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Appling
Lucius Benjamin "Luke" Appling (April 2, 1907 β January 3, 1991), nicknamed "Old Aches and Pains" was an American shortstop in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Chicago White Sox (1930β1950). He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964. Born in North Carolina, Appling briefly attended Oglethorpe University, Oglethorpe College. He was signed by the minor league Atlanta Crackers in 1930 and debuted with the Chicago White Sox later that year. He interrupted his career to serve in World War II in 1944 and 1945. He played for Chicago until 1950, then was a minor league manager and major league coach for many years. He served one stint as an interim major league manager in 1967. He died in Georgia in 1991. Early life and career Appling was born in High Point, North Carolina. He attended Fulton High School in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. He later said that he had been lefthanded, a trait that he shared with his father, until he was in high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Grube
Franklin Thomas Grube (January 7, 1905 β July 2, 1945) was an American professional baseball and professional football player. In baseball, he was a catcher whose career lasted for 14 seasons (1928β1941), including 394 games in Major League Baseball as a member of the Chicago White Sox (1931β1933 and 1935β1936) and St. Louis Browns (1934β1935 and 1941). In football, he played left end for the New York football Yankees of the NFL, appearing in 11 games in 1928. Grove was listed as tall and weighed ; he threw and batted right-handed. Grube was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and attended Lafayette College in that city. In the majors, he collected 274 hits, including 59 doubles and one home run (struck off New York's Ivy Andrews at Yankee Stadium on September 12, , in a rare tie game, called on account of darkness); he batted .244 with 107 runs batted in. Grube was the White Sox' most used catcher in both and . He was shot while visiting New York City, and died July 2, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Berry
Charles Francis Berry (October 18, 1902 β September 6, 1972) was an American athlete and sports official who enjoyed careers as a catcher and umpire in Major League Baseball and as an end and official in the National Football League. His father, Charlie Sr., was a second baseman who played in the Union Association in 1884. Career Born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Berry attended Phillipsburg High School and ultimately accomplished the rare feat of officiating in both the NFL Championship Game and the World Series in the same year. Football While in college as a star on the Lafayette team, he was named to the final Walter Camp All-America football team as an end in 1924. In 1925β26 he starred for the Pottsville Maroons of the NFL, leading the league in scoring in 1925 with 74 points. During the 1925 NFL season, the Maroons played a game against the top college football team, a group of All-Stars from the University of Notre Dame. This team featured the famed Four Horsemen a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whit Wyatt
John Whitlow Wyatt (September 27, 1907 β July 16, 1999) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of sixteen seasons in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers (1929β33), Chicago White Sox (1933β36), Cleveland Indians (1937), Brooklyn Dodgers (1939β44), and Philadelphia Phillies (1945). While injuries sidetracked much of Wyatt's early career, he is most famous for his performance in 1941, when his team (the Dodgers) won the National League pennant. Early years Wyatt was born in Kensington, Georgia, in 1907. As a high school pitching phenom at Cedartown High School, he once struck out 23 college hitters in a game. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1927. Professional career American League In 1928, Wyatt joined the Evansville Hubs in the Three-I League. After nearly two full seasons with Evansville, including a stretch in 1929 where he won sixteen straight games, he was acquired by the major league Detroit Tigers lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Tietje
Leslie William "Toots" Tietje (September 11, 1910 β October 2, 1996) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the Chicago White Sox and St. Louis Browns between 1933 and 1938. Tietje batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Sumner, Iowa. He broke into professional baseball in 1931, pitching for the Waterloo Hawks and going 8β13 with a 5.03 ERA. He spent 1932 with Waterloo, going 8β14, and hitting .212 with four home runs. In 1933, he spent most of the season with the Dallas Steers, going 14β10 with a 3.51 ERA. He earned a call up to the big leagues, and on September 18 he made his debut. He started three games for the White Sox that year, going 2β0 with a 2.42 ERA. As he would throughout his entire career, he walked more batters than he struck out: in 22 innings, he walked 15 batters and struck out only nine. According to John Carmichael, Tietje was on pace for a successful career, but he developed arthritis in his arm and was hampered by that for the res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Murray (baseball)
George King "Smiler" Murray (September 23, 1898 – October 18, 1955) was a baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, and Chicago White Sox. Biography Murray was born on September 23, 1898, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended to North Carolina State College, where he played college baseball for the Wolfpack. In , when he was 23, he broke into the Major Leagues on May 8 with the New York Yankees. He was mainly a relief pitcher, although started two games (out of 22 pitched in all). He was 4-2 with a 3.97 ERA. The next two years Murray spent with the Boston Red Sox On January 30, 1923, Murray was traded to the Red Sox with Camp Skinner and Norm McMillan for star pitcher Herb Pennock and $50,000. In , nearly half of the games he pitched in he started; however, he did worse than he did the year before, going 7-11 with a 4.91 earned run average. His seven wins that season were a career high, though. In 1924, Murray went back to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Miller (pitcher)
Walter Miller (February 28, 1898 β August 20, 1975), known as Jake Miller or J. Walter Miller, was a professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) during 1924β1933. He played mainly for the Cleveland Indians, and one season for the Chicago White Sox. Listed at and , he threw and batted left-handed. Baseball career Miller played five seasons in minor league baseball; 1922β1924 and 1931β1932. He compiled a 39β25 winβloss record in 94 minor league appearances. Miller's major league career spanned 1924 to 1933, with the exception of 1932 when he did not play in the major leagues. He made his debut with the Cleveland Indians late in the 1924 season, and went on to appear in 174 games (125 starts) with the team through the 1931 season. He recorded a career-high 14 wins during the 1929 season. During his eight seasons with Cleveland, he compiled a 55β52 record with 3.92 ERA while registering 275 strikeouts in 964 innings pitched. In July 1932, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Lyons
Theodore Amar Lyons (December 28, 1900 β July 25, 1986) was an American professional baseball starting pitcher, manager and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in 21 MLB seasons, all with the Chicago White Sox. He is the franchise leader in wins. Lyons won 20 or more games three times (in , , and ) and became a fan favorite in Chicago. Lyons was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955. He has the fourth-highest career ERA among Hall of Fame pitchers, and is the only Hall of Fame pitcher to have more walks than strikeouts. In 1981 Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included Lyons in their book ''The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time''. Career Playing career Lyons broke into the major leagues in after playing collegiate baseball at Baylor University. He joined the White Sox on a road trip and never pitched a day in the minors. Lyons recorded his first two wins as a relief pitcher in a doubleheader on October 6, 1923, making him one of the first pitcher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chad Kimsey
Clyde Elias "Chad" Kimsey (August 6, 1906 β December 3, 1942) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played all or part of six seasons in the majors, between and , for the St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, and Detroit Tigers. He was killed in a truck accident at age 36. Kimsey was a strong hitting pitcher in his major league career. He posted a .282 batting average (58-for-206) with 30 runs, 6 home runs and 26 RBI in 227 games. He was used as a pinch hitter 43 times in the major leagues. He made 26 pinch hitting appearances for the 1930 St. Louis Browns The St. Louis Browns were a Major League Baseball team that originated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the Milwaukee Brewers. A charter member of the American League (AL), the Brewers moved to St. Louis, Missouri, after the 1901 season, where they p .... References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
