Yes --he was. Nellie Fox was at second. They ran all the time , but their pitching was not up to the Dodgers. Can't recall that announcer...but remember watching on TV. It was all black and white in those days.
This sox team has SOME SERIOUS PITCHERS that can match those Houston, if it them.
This sox team has SOME SERIOUS PITCHERS that can match those Houston, if it them.
early's in the HOF. i remember when he was at the end of his career, trying to pick up his 300th win. he might of been w/someone like cleveland. took him abt 6 tries. i do remember the 59 sox. i was a kid and spent abt a buck when i sent away for 15 black and white photos. off the top of my head , lets see how i do. of course, they had the aforementioned, aparicio-fox combo. at first, they had The Klu, big ted kluzuski. huge arms and it was like he cut off the sleeves of his jersey and turned it into a muscle shirt. catcher they had smokey burgess, this dumpy guy with an unconventional swing. he at one time in his career was the alltime leading pinch hitter. outfield they had jim landis & a guy named rivera. maybe minnie minoso was on the 59 sox. i saw him on tv the other night, the sox brought him out. lefty billy pierce joined early wynn. that's all i remember. i was eight years old at the time. the 1st world series i can remember.
I was 7 and remember watching the pennate clincing game. The last play was a double play, Apraricio to Fox, or the other way around. The city set off the air raid sirens which caused an uproar and many people didn't know what it was all about. Must have been all the Cub fans. I can remember the lineup without looking it up.
1B Ted Kaslusky (sp)
2B Nellie Fox
SS Louie Apraricio
3B Sammy Esposito
C Sherm Lollar
LF Al Smith
CF Jim Landis
RF Jungle Jim Rivera
Early Wynn, Jim Pierce, and I belive Dick Donovon were the starters with Gerry Staley in the pen.
1B Ted Kaslusky (sp)
2B Nellie Fox
SS Louie Apraricio
3B Sammy Esposito
C Sherm Lollar
LF Al Smith
CF Jim Landis
RF Jungle Jim Rivera
Early Wynn, Jim Pierce, and I belive Dick Donovon were the starters with Gerry Staley in the pen.
acosta said:
What wonderfull memories. My dad always rooted against the Yankees and this Sox team was a rare American League representative, back then. Wow--had forgotten some of those names and I was a teenager. Big Ted K at 1st base. Arms the size of tree trunks!
That team had speed to burn.
Some great memories in this thread...I was a Cleveland Indian fan at that time and listened to almost every Indian game on the radio that year, still can hear announcer Jimmy Dudley say, "3 and 2, the big one due"...the Indians gave the White Sox a good run for the pennant that season. I rooted for the Sox in the Series; I remember my little blue transistor radio with an earpiece which I used to sneak into class to listen to the day game World Series. All the bats and gloves were autographed by players in those days, I remember my mitt was Eddie Matthews and I had a Mickey Mantle and Rocky Colavito bat. I had a whole wagon full of baseball cards, it seemed like everyone did in those days, and why not??? A pack of 6 cards and one slab of gum cost a nickel, but you could buy 6 packs for a quarter. And we actively traded those cards....gosh, I wish I would have saved mine....a friend of mine sold his 50's collection of cards for a dime a few years back. We used to have a collection day, it was always on Friday (payday), where we stood in front of banks and A&P stores and collected money for the little league, and the highest collectors got to ride the bus to either an Indian or a Tiger game...99 bottles of beer on the wall...gosh what fun those trips were.
On the night the Sox won the pennant in '59 some "genius" employed by the city set off the air raid sirens on the southside. Remember this was just a few years before the Cuban Missile Crisis and, of course, led many ethnic old ladies who didn't have a clue as to what was going on to run out of their bungalos screaming and pulling their hair. My mom got a bunch of frantic phone calls that night.
doug stewart said:
Wish--I had saved my baseball cards too. Used to trade them when I was a kid also. Like so much stuff we never knew their value. I remember a Hank Aaron card..and an Eddie Matthews, Nellie Fox cards. What would they be worth today. I have a very strange feeling that this is the year of the White Sox. Yes, I think Houston is a team of destiny as well...but Clemons and Pettite already have series rings from the Yankee years.
The White Sox have had a great run from the starting gate and their pitchers win the OLD FASHIONED way too.
Go-GO White Sox and thanks for the memories of how the game used to be.
bob elson,thanks mr jones,i can hear his voice as plainly as if the games were played an hour ago,,,i was a farmboy in ky & i would have dreams about cws,,i was always the shortstop & i must say a damned good one,hehehe,,,,what a thread,90% of the guys on this board probably werent even born in 59.
happy 100TH bday to former white sox anoouncer JACK BRICKHOUSE
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Hey! Hey! Happy 100th, Jack Brickhouse
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Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack Brickhouse, one of the most celebrated and beloved Chicago broadcasters of the 20th century.
Born January 24, 1916, in Peoria, Illinois, John Beasley Brickhouse joined WGN AM 720 in 1940 and spent the next four decades as the eternally optimistic voice of the Chicago Cubs. His “Hey! Hey!” home run call became the clarion of summer.
“He set records that will never be matched,” Brickhouse’s widow, Pat, said in a 2014 remembrance. “Because a guy doesn’t hang around for 40 years with the same team . . . and he had way over 5,000 broadcasts.”
Jack BrickhouseIn addition to Cubs baseball, Brickhouse also called Chicago White Sox baseball, Chicago Bears football and Chicago Bulls basketball, among many other sports. His was the first voice heard in 1948 when the Chicago Tribune launched WGN-Channel 9, for which Brickhouse interviewed presidents, prime ministers and popes, and covered five national political conventions.
He was inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Radio Hall of Fame in 1996. He died of cardiac arrest on August 6, 1998, at age 82.
“Jack Brickhouse helped raise a generation of young people with his daily broadcasts,” said longtime friend and former CNN correspondent Dan Ronan, who called him “Chicago’s greatest and most versatile broadcaster.”
“He’s part of the soundtrack of my life,” Ronan said. “Let’s always remember the many joys and sometimes the heartaches he shared with us during the ups and downs of his years behind the microphone.”
What’s your favorite memory of Jack Brickhouse?
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happy 100TH bday to former white sox anoouncer JACK BRICKHOUSE
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Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack Brickhouse, one of the most celebrated and beloved Chicago broadcasters of the 20th century.
Born January 24, 1916, in Peoria, Illinois, John Beasley Brickhouse joined WGN AM 720 in 1940 and spent the next four decades as the eternally optimistic voice of the Chicago Cubs. His “Hey! Hey!” home run call became the clarion of summer.
“He set records that will never be matched,” Brickhouse’s widow, Pat, said in a 2014 remembrance. “Because a guy doesn’t hang around for 40 years with the same team . . . and he had way over 5,000 broadcasts.”
Jack Brickhouse
In addition to Cubs baseball, Brickhouse also called Chicago White Sox baseball, Chicago Bears football and Chicago Bulls basketball, among many other sports. His was the first voice heard in 1948 when the Chicago Tribune launched WGN-Channel 9, for which Brickhouse interviewed presidents, prime ministers and popes, and covered five national political conventions.
He was inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Radio Hall of Fame in 1996. He died of cardiac arrest on August 6, 1998, at age 82.
“Jack Brickhouse helped raise a generation of young people with his daily broadcasts,” said longtime friend and former CNN correspondent Dan Ronan, who called him “Chicago’s greatest and most versatile broadcaster.”
“He’s part of the soundtrack of my life,” Ronan said. “Let’s always remember the many joys and sometimes the heartaches he shared with us during the ups and downs of his years behind the microphone.”
What’s your favorite memory of Jack Brickhouse?
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That brings back some fond memories, thanks 5team.
