The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since 1991, the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park. The White Sox last won the World Series in 2005. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Chicago team was established as a major league baseball club in 1900. Originally called the Chicago White Stockings, a nickname abandoned by the Cubs, it was shortened to Chicago White Sox. The team played their home games at South Side Park. In 1910, the team moved into historic Comiskey Park for more than eight decades. The White Sox were strong during their first two decades, winning the 1906 World Series with a defense oriented team known as "the Hitless Wonders", and the 1917 World Series led by Eddie Cicotte, Eddie Collins, and Shoeless Joe Jackson. The 1919 World Series, brought on the Black Sox Scandal, in which several prominent members of the White Sox were accused of conspiring with gamblers to purposefully lose games. New commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis took decisive action, banning players from Major League Baseball for life. A pennant winning did not come until 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years.
The 1973 Chicago White Sox season was the team's 73rd season in the major leagues, and its 74th season overall. They finished with a record 77-85, good enough for fifth place in the American League West, 17 games behind the first-place Oakland Athletics.
1973 Chicago White Sox Roster
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