{"id":641565,"date":"2026-03-24T23:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/641565\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:12:21","slug":"today-in-chicago-white-sox-history-march-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/641565\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Chicago White Sox History: March 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

1962
White Sox<\/a> third baseman Andy Carey, traded to Philadelphia on December 15, is instead dealt to the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> after refusing to report to the Phillies<\/a>. (The White Sox ended up sending pitcher Cal McLish to Philadelphia for minor league second baseman Lou Vassie to offset the Phillies not getting Carey.)<\/p>\n

Carey, just 30 but a veteran having played for nearly all of the 1950s with the New York Yankees<\/a>, didn\u2019t want to be shuttled (with no say) to his fourth team in four years. As he was a California native, the White Sox obliged him with the Dodgers deal.<\/p>\n

Carey, who was a -0.1 WAR part-timer for the South Siders in 1961, played a single season with L.A. before retiring.<\/p>\n

ALSO ON THIS DAY … the White Sox saw their biggest attendance ever at Payne Park in Sarasota, 5,712, for a Spring Training game against the New York Yankees. (One year later, again against the Yankees, the White Sox would break that mark.)<\/p>\n

1971
Defensive whiz Bobby Knoop was traded to Kansas City for cash and a player to be named later, who on March 30 turned out to be infielder Luis Alcaraz.<\/p>\n

Knoop came over from California in a midseason 1969 deal and played relatively well (0.9 WAR) for the godawful, 68-95 White Sox. The next year, Knoop contributed to a record 106 losses with a -0.5 WAR over 130 games. The 31-year-old surely was on the wrong side of the calendar for any youth movement the White Sox were creating into the 1970s.<\/p>\n

The infielder returned to Chicago to begin his coaching career in 1977 and worked for two years with the White Sox. He then returned to California and was a base coach for an amazing 23 three seasons, all told. Knoop was inducted into the Angels Hall of Fame before his coaching career was even finished!<\/p>\n

Alcaraz never saw the majors with the White Sox, but had a strong season at Triple-A Tucson (.290\/.370\/.498 in 102 games) before getting snatched away by Atlanta in the November 1971 Rule 5 draft.<\/p>\n

2001
Longtime hurler Tim Belcher announced his retirement, after 146 wins compiled over 14 seasons with seven teams.<\/p>\n

Half of one season and three of the wins came with the White Sox, as Belcher was the key 1993 deadline acquisition for the playoff-bound South Siders. Belcher went 3-5 with a 4.40 ERA (0.5 WAR) down the stretch and was not in the ALCS rotation, but did bail out a shelled Jason Bere in Game 4.<\/p>\n

With the bases loaded and one out in the third inning, Belcher coaxed a strikeout and ground out to keep the Blue Jays\u2019 lead at 3-2; Belcher threw 3 2\u20443 innings of one-run ball, himself aided on his final out by Tim Raines throwing out Roberto Alomar at home to end the sixth inning. The White Sox went on to win, 7-4, evening the series at two games apiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1962White Sox third baseman Andy Carey, traded to Philadelphia on December 15, is instead dealt to the Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,4726,31244,2561,4,4727,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-641565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicago-white-sox-history","12":"tag-chicago-white-sox-roster","13":"tag-chicagowhitesox","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-today-in-white-sox-history","16":"tag-white-sox","17":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116286688625024150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641565","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=641565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}