{"id":560616,"date":"2026-02-08T03:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/560616\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T03:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:20:33","slug":"today-in-chicago-white-sox-history-february-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/560616\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Chicago White Sox History: February 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

1941
In what turned out to be quite a heist, the White Sox<\/a> sent pitcher Clint Brown to Cleveland for pitcher Johnny Humphries.<\/p>\n

Humphries had been a mediocre reliever for three seasons in Cleveland, amassing nine saves but a 6.37 ERA to boot; the White Sox transitioned him to the rotation, and after a stunning 1941 (get this stat line: 1.84 ERA, 14 games, six starts, seven finishes, FOUR SHUTOUTS, a save … and 2.5 WAR! No White Sox player in history has earned more WAR in so few games) he had a truly miraculous 1942, with a 2.68 ERA in 28 starts, 17 COMPLETE GAMES and 3.9 WAR. Alas, he burned out after that, but still left Chicago in 1945 with 7.3 career WAR.<\/p>\n

Brown had been a superb reliever for the White Sox, leading all of baseball in games finished in four of five seasons from 1936-40, appearances (61) in 1939, and saves (18) in 1937. However, after a decent 1941 he was cooked by the next summer, getting his permanent walking papers out of the majors on June 16.<\/p>\n

1959
Dorothy Rigney, grandaughter of White Sox founder Charles Comiskey and the majority owner of the club, reached an agreement to sell the team to Bill Veeck. After the sale, Dorothy\u2019s brother Chuck Comiskey becomes the largest single stockholder in the club, but at just 46%, not enough to control it. Veeck\u2019s takeover for 1959 makes it the first time in club history a member of the Comiskey familty is not in charge.<\/p>\n

1973
The White Sox acquired pitcher Skip Pitlock from San Francisco in exchange for pitcher Chuck Hartenstein and second baseman Glenn Redmon. Pitlock spent all of 1973 pitching at Triple-A Iowa but saw action in 40 games in 1974. The swingman went 3-3 that year with a 4.43 ERA, five starts, 10 finishes and a save. He faced just one batter for the White Sox in 1975 before being sent west to Oakland with Stan Bahnsen in the Chet Lemon-Dave Hamilton trade.<\/p>\n

Hartenstein had been purchased from Boston in 1970 but never played a single game on the South Side. In fact, he did not resurface in the majors again until 1977, with the expansion Toronto Blue Jays. Redmon was a 19th round pick of the White Sox in 1969 but never played on the South Side, either; he saw just seven games with the Giants in 1973 \u2014 his only time in the major leagues.<\/p>\n

1994
Michael Jordan signed a minor league deal with the White Sox<\/a>, later working out at IIT for invited media. Jordan was invited to Spring Training, and in April started his professional baseball career at Double-A Birmingham.<\/p>\n

2005
After one of the more acrimonious disputes in team history, free agent and four-time All-Star Magglio Ordo\u00f1ez signed with the Detroit Tigers<\/a> for five years and $75 million.<\/p>\n

Ordo\u00f1ez engaged Sox management in a war of words over how he was treated, the contract offered to him, and his health status. Magglio\u2019s agent, Scott Boras, refused to turn over medical information, which infuriated GM Ken Williams and basically sealed Ordo\u00f1ez\u2019s fate. Additionally, manager Ozzie Guill\u00e9n publicly called out Ordo\u00f1ez in no uncertain terms over the contract situation.<\/p>\n

Considering the severity of Ordo\u00f1ez\u2019s knee injury \u2014 which required a secret trip to Austria for experimental surgery \u2014 it was hard to blame the Sox for their stance.<\/p>\n

Ordo\u00f1ez, who was almost traded to the Red Sox<\/a> at the 2003 Winter Meetings for Nomar Garciaparra, played with the team for six full seasons and parts of two others, with 187 home runs and 702 RBIs. In his full seasons, Ordo\u00f1ez never hit worse than .282, and in five of those years he hit better than .300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1941In what turned out to be quite a heist, the White Sox sent pitcher Clint Brown to Cleveland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5568,10420,4738,16540,10778,5,10910,138,49,38554,4726,31244,2561,17995,73944,40626,14349,21683,13406,6252,4,5029,73945,4727,396,38997,2562],"class_list":["post-560616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-5568","tag-10420","tag-4738","tag-16540","tag-10778","tag-baseball","tag-charles-comiskey","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicago-white-sox-prospects-minor-leagues","tag-chicago-white-sox-history","tag-chicago-white-sox-roster","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-chuck-comiskey","tag-clint-brown","tag-dorothy-comiskey","tag-johnny-humphries","tag-ken-williams","tag-magglio-ordonez","tag-michael-jordan","tag-mlb","tag-ozzie-guillen","tag-skip-pitlock","tag-today-in-white-sox-history","tag-white-sox","tag-white-sox-executives","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116032859549799218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}