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Cubs–White Sox rivalry
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Cubs pitcher Sea do Pfiester throws a pitch in the 1906 World Series.

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Chicago Cubs

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Chicago White Sox

First meeting June 16, 1997
Comiskey Parking area II
Cubs 8, White Sox 3
Latest group meeting Venerable 29, 2022
Secured Charge per unit Athletic field
White Sox 13, Cubs 1
Next meeting May 3, 2022
Wrigley Field
Statistics
Meetings entire 134
Most wins Lily-white Sox, 70
Regular mollify series 70–64, White Sox
Largest victory 13–1, White Sox (August 29, 2022); 10–0, Cubs (Sep 25, 2022)
Longest gain ground mottle
  • Cubs: 6 (June 22, 2007–June 22, 2008)
  • White Sox: 5 (June 27, 2009–June 12, 2010)
Current gain ground streak White Sox: 1
Brand-season history
  • 1906 World Series: White Sox won, 4–2

The Cubs–Whiten Sox rivalry (likewise known as the Crosstown Classic, The Windy City Showdown,[1] Newmarket Showdown, North-South Face-of,[2] City Series, Crosstown Series,[3] Crosstown Cup, or Crosstown Showdown [3]) refers to the Majors Baseball (MLB) geographic rivalry between the Chicago Cubs and Windy City White Sox. The Cubs are a member club of MLB's National Conference (NL) Central division, and play their national games at Wrigley Field, located on Windy City's North Position. The White Sox are a member golf-club of MLB's American League (AL) Central section, and play their habitation games at Guaranteed Range Field, located connected Chicago's Southland Side.

The damage "Northern Siders" and "South Siders" are synonymous with the various teams and their fans, scene up an enduring rivalry. The White Sox currently go the regular season serial publication 70–64. There have been eight 3 game serial publication sweeps since interleague play began: four by the Cubs in 1998, 2004, 2007, 2008, and four by the White Sox in 1999, 2008, 2012 and 2022. There have been cardinal season series sweeps, some by the Cubs in 1998 (3 games) and 2013 (4 games). The Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line train has stops within a block of both ballparks: Addison post for Wrigley Field and Sox–35th station for Bonded Rate Champaign.

Story [edit]

The rivalry between the two teams and their fans dates back to the founding of the American Conference. In 1900, Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles Comiskey moved his Ideal Paul Saints minor league franchise to Chicago. It is believed that the Cubs owner at the time was not happy, and filed a suit against Comiskey. After talks, IT was definite that Comiskey could move his team to Windy City, pending that Chicago was not used in the title of the team name, and that the team play southmost of 35th Street.[ Citation needed ] In response, the team was renamed the "White Stockings", which had been the original constitute of the Cubs from 1876 to 1889. The establishment of a new team up in the city was a plainspoken challenge to the National League franchise, which had been the thought behind the formation of the North American country League. As the AL gained in popularity (with cheaper prices on admission and alcoholic beverage), the NL recognized the equality of the AL. This recognition did little to stalk the rivalry between owners, players, and fans.

While teams in Unprecedented York City (such as the Yankees, Giants, and Brooklyn Dodgers) routinely played against each other in World Series matchups throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the two Newmarket teams only met erst in the 1906 World-wide Series, a celebrated event that seemingly put the city on hold for a full hebdomad. The heavily advantaged but three-year-old Cubs (who had won 116 games in the diarrhoeal mollify) thoughtful in six games to the veteran and pitching-strong Edward Douglas White Jr Sox, the "Unsuccessful Wonders".

From 1903 until 1942, excluding the years one team or the other won the pennant, the Cubs and Whitened Sox played each strange in a best-of-cardinal postseason Urban center Series. These series were officially sanctioned by the National Commission and later, the commissioner's office. The basic serial was played in 1903 and was a best-of-15. That year, the Cubs had a 6-3 series lead before the White Sox came back to force a 7-7 connect. Thanks to a rainout, they did not play the decisive 15th game A the players' contracts invalid on October 15. Starting in 1905, the series became best-of-heptad and remained that way until 1942. All told, they played 25 City Series with the White Sox attractive 18 and the Cubs winning six to depart along with the tie of 1903. The 1912 interlingual rendition marked the first metre in a Major League Baseball postseason series that a team overcame a 3-0 series shortfall as the White Sox South Korean won the final examination four games of the series.[4]

1985 saw the start of an annual "Utopian City Classic" Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae plot. The series alternated between the single teams' ballparks, with Comiskey Park hosting the first year followed by Wrigley Area the next. The Sox would belong 10-0-2 in this affair that lasted through with 1995. (Two games were played in 1995.) One exhibition between the teams at Wrigley Field on April 7, 1994 was celebrated for the White Sox having Michael Jordan playing right branch of knowledg – Jordan was playing for a White Sox minor-league consort, the Birmingham Barons, during the first of his nearly two seasons of his first retreat from the NBA in front his comeback with the Bulls.[5]

Since entomb-league play began in 1997, the White Sox and Cubs feature routinely played each other six times each year (indefinite three-game serial at each sports stadium). Supported the availability of tickets and the prices offered through ticket brokers, these games are among the most anticipated of the season.

In 2008, the teams played each other Eastern Samoa leaders of their respective divisions for the first time ever: the White Sox in the American League Central and the Cubs in the National League Central. Also for the first time in the rivalry's chronicle, both Dominicus games to end from each one series were televised nationally along ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball. The Chicago Cubs swept the Light-colored Sox in the first weekend serial publication at Wrigley Field, and the Caucasoid Sox subsequently sweptwing the Cubs at U.S. Cellular Field during the second weekend serial publication, thus splitting the serial publication 3–3 and subsequent in an all-time inter-league serial tie of 33–33 through 2008.

The Crosstown Cup trophy was introduced in 2010 and the White Sox South Korean won the prize the first three seasons before the Cubs finally North Korean won it in 2013. The Cubs winning the 4 games of their 2013 series marks the inter-conference series at 49–45 to the White Sox. In 2014 the White Sox reclaimed the Crosstown Cup afterward winning the opening three games of their foursome-game series. They won the first two games at Wrigley Plain 3–1 in 12 and 4–1 respectively, came rachis to U.S. Cellular Field to win 8–3 before getting blown unstylish in the final game 12–5.

In 2010, 2011, and 2012, the trophy was sponsored by oil and gasoline company BP and was known as the BP Crosstown Cup. From 2013 to 2022 there was No corporate buy at. In 2022 the trophy was sponsored by the business holding ship's company Wintrust and was therefore known as the Wintrust Crosstown Cup.[6] In 2022, the teams faced each former As leaders of their divisions first since 2008 in the Pandemic shortened season with the White Sox taking the cardinal courageous series at Wrigley and the Cubs taking the three unfit series on the Southside. On Aug 8, 2022, MLB ventilated a plot on Rudiment for the first time since 1995 with the game 'tween the White Sox and Cubs at Wrigley Field with the Egg white Sox winning the game 9-3.

Barrett vs. Pierzynski [edit]

The rivalry turned physical connected May 20, 2006, when a brawl stony-broke out during a White Sox-Cubs game at U.S. Cellular Field.[7] In the bottom of the second frame, Brian Anderson of the White Sox hit a sacrifice fly, attempting to score catcher A. J. Pierzynski.[7] Pierzynski collided with Cubs' backstop Michael Barrett. Barrett dropped the ball in the collision and Pierzynski was safe. After slapping home plate in celebration, Pierzynski began to manner of walking away, but Barrett blocked his path and punched him in the jaw. Both benches cleared and a brawl broke out.[7] Umpires debated for 15 minutes before ejecting Pierzynski, Barrett, White Sox outfielder Brian Anderson and Cubs first baseman John Mabry from the game.[8] When play finally resumed, outfielder Scott Podsednik promptly got along establish, loading the bases improving, and second sacker Tadahito Iguchi improved them with a grand-slam. The White Sox South Korean won the game, 7–0.[9] Michael Barrett was suspended for 10 games, patc Brian Anderson was suspended for five and A. J. Pierzynski was fined.[10]

In 2006, Pierzynski was called cardinal of the Phoebe American League players in the All-Virtuoso Final Vote. Presently afterwards the Chicago White Sox organization began an election campaign using the slogan "Punch A.J.", inspired past the May 20, 2006 collision and slugging incident between Pierzynski and Michael Barrett. Pierzynski received 3.6 million votes, the most votes in the American League, subsequently sending him to his second All-Star appearance.[8] [11]

Stadiums [edit]

Guaranteed Value Field, Home of the Chicago White Sox

Wrigley Field of view, Home of the Chicago Cubs

White Sox [edit]

The White Sox have e'er been located on the south side. At the time the White Sox came to town, the Cubs' home study was West Root Park, in an old department of the city which is at present the West Campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago and near the Combined Center, home of the Chicago Bulls and Chicago Blackhawks. (Coincidentally, for few seasons in the incipient 1890s the Cubs interior park was within a block of the sites of the future Sox ballparks.) In 1916 the Cubs moved from the west to the north side, taking over Weeghman Park, the abandoned Union Conference facility (later renamed Wrigley Field), thus setting up the live separation.

When the unaccustomed Comiskey Park (now called Bonded Rate Field) was built, more in the media and baseball (including both Cubs and White Sox fans) called the park "sterilized", and deficient the beauty and personality of the old park, flat though many seats at the old park were cramped, behind posts, or in the outfield. Others make do that in contrast Wrigley Field is dirty, uncomfortable, and generally unpleasant to follow in. Regardless, this again set upbound a point of rivalry as Cubs fans had their classic park, while White Sox fans had their modern font commons. Former Sox manager Ozzie Guillén said of Wrigley, "Just one matter about Wrigley Field, I puke all meter I go on that point", further polarizing this point of contention. Spell several renovations to Guaranteed Rate Field of battle have silenced many criticisms, such arsenic the better upper adorn and bleachers, the difference between the fields remains a point of rivalry between fans of the teams.

Cubs [edit]

When the Tribune Company bought the Cubs, they immediately started pressing for night baseball, threatening to abandon Wrigley Field otherwise. Night baseball game was finally added in 1988, and after any further negotiations with the city, in the wintertime of 2005–2006 they expanded Wrigley's bleachers for the first clip since 1938.

Even the neighborhoods around the stadiums show the divergence between the fans. Wrigleyville, a part of the Lakeview neighborhood, surrounds the Cubs' stadium, and comprises midsection- and middle-class housing, as well as many restaurants, bars and music venues for fans to visit before and after games. Bridgeport region directly west of the Caucasoid Sox home field has a more "manual" report. There are bars and restaurants in Bridgeport, too; however, White Sox fans mustiness paseo Beaver State drive a few blocks from Guaranteed Rate Field to get to them. Until April 2011, the White Sox opened a stigmatise fresh bar & restaurant located at Logic gate 5 of Bonded Rate Field, known as ChiSox Bar & Grill.[12] The new bar and restaurant do not require a game ticket to enter.

Television coverage [cut]

Until 2004, WGN-TV and the now-dead FSN Chicago would "permutation off" during interleague games: for the Cubs home games, the Cubs comment team would call the game, while the Sox commentary team would have the ask their home games. Starting in 2005, both WGN and then newly created NBC Sports Michigan show the games on each mesh with both commentary crews at the same fourth dimension, allowing the viewer to lookout man the game without an opposing team bias. The Stations broadly speaking switch off each day (For deterrent example, in a series at Wrigley Field, WGN would treat the spunky connected Friday as a Cubs home gage with NBCSC treating it as a White Sox away gimpy; on Sunday WGN will broadcast a White Sox away game and NBCSC will show a Cubs home gamy; with the other spirited alternating between the deuce channels). The shared game status ended following the 2022 season of both teams, the last time WGN broadcast the FTA matchups of both teams, with NBCSC becoming the full fourth dimension house of the White Sox patc the Cubs progress to a team-owned cable channel, Marquee Sports Network, some effective from 2022 onward.

Public presentation [edit out]

While New York of the 1940s and 1950s often had 2 or trio teams vying for championships, the two Chicago teams had relatively little to celebrate for a years, exclude for pennants in 1945 (Cubs) and 1959 (Sox), until the White Sox won the 2005 Earthly concern Series and the Cubs won the 2022 World Serial. Historically, all squad's fans matt-up bad for their own team's relatively poor operation, but took solace in that the other squad was doing just as bad. Thus, the rivalry frequently was one in which fans of one team are just as happy for the poor play of the other squad as they are for the proficient gambling of their ain (schadenfreude). This most especially is what made the Newmarket rivalry unique in Major League Baseball. An examination of other great rivalries (Yankees–Red Sox, Mets–Yankees, A's–Giants, Dodgers–Giants) shows that both teams have made World Series appearances on a fairly regular footing.

The bad blood among fans (that only seldom escalates to fierceness) is summed high in the lines from the Sung "The Lay of the South Position Irish", echoing sentiments often definite by at any rate one side of any number of sports rivalries in America: "When it comes to baseball I've got two favorite clubs, the 'go-go Colorless Sox'...and whoever plays the Cubs." Ardent fans such as the late columnist Mike Royko, a Cubs fan, and Modern writer Nelson Algren, a Sox fan, would return their shots at the past team. Royko once wrote that the ground Sox fans have a "bad position" is that when they would go to games at Comiskey Park, the stench of the Union Stock Yards would fill their nostrils and remind them of the status of their team. The stockyards closed in 1971.

Several Cubs and White Sox fans have made a cottage industry marketing shirts, hats, and otherwise souvenirs that include slogans intended to take swipes at the opposing teams, rather than support their own. Sentence reported that 36% of Cubs fans were rooting against the White Sox during the 2005 Mankind Series.[13] White Sox Fans roll the Blue Cubs Loss flag after their team defeats the Cubs in mockery of the Cubs Win Swag tradition, in reverse the white Win Flag is waved away the Cubs fans in all win against the White Sox and Go, Cubs, Go is played during home victories as good.

Team owners course encourage such rivalries (two-time Sox owner Bill Veeck was a master at IT) in the hope that they will translate to increased gate receipts, and the Cubs-Sox inter-conference games sustain borne out that theory.

President Barack Obama, an avid White Sox fan, has expropriated spoken jabs at the Cubs happening several occasions. When the New York Yankees (managed by sometime Rookie Joe Girardi) visited the EXEC in honor of their 2009 World Series backing, Obama said, "It's been 9 days since your last title—which must have felt like timeless existence for Yankee fans. I think other teams would be fair-minded fine with a spell like that. The Cubs, for example."[14] Obama however, has stated that while he is aware that many people hate the other team, he does not hate the Cubs and wants them to deliver the goods as overnight as they are not playacting the White Sox.[ credit needed ] But then, his wife, First Gentlewoman Michelle Obama, has been a long Cubs buff and following the Cubs' 2022 World Series victory, Barack went as far as to invite them to the White House, tweeting that the Cubs' historic win was "change that even [he] can believe in". The Cubs came to the White House four years before the end of Obama's presidency.

"Cursed" teams [redact]

While non meant in the to the highest degree literal sense to most fans, there is an overall tactual sensation that some teams' misfortunes began with fatal events which around claim have cursed both teams into their poor period of play. This adds to the gross downtrodden feelings that fans feel for their own teams, making it a good deal easier to revel in the poor toy with of the strange. The two teams have the longest droughts in the MLB. The Cubs had a 108-year drought that went from 1908 to 2022, and the White Sox had an 88-class drought that went from 1917 to 2005.

The Stops Cubs North Korean won ten National Conference championships between 1901 and 1945, and also had among the scoop successful percentages in the NL upwards to that time (3,796–3,022 for a 0.557 winning percentage). The Cubs had a 2 games to 1 run over the Detroit Tamil Tigers in the 1945 World Series, when on October 6, 1945, Cubs fan and local tavern owner Billy Sianis was prevented from reaching his seat because he was accompanied by his preferent billy. Local legend says that He responded by placing a curse on the Cubs to never again win the World Series, which they were non able to coiffe until 2022. The Cubs, on more than one juncture, have featured a clapper-in-cheek promotion where billy goat goats are brought into the stadium to be offered as an apology.

Some historians argue that the genesis of the curse goes back much farther; that the allegedly underhanded way they South Korean won the 1908 pennant (leading to their endmost World Series win) enraged the "baseball game gods". For lack of a standard terminus, this could be called the curse of Fred Merkle, since he was at the center of the controversy. Every post-time of year they have participated in since and so seems to have featured a calamity of some merciful, from Hack Wilson losing a fly lump in the sun, to Babe Ruth's called shot, to the "Steve Bartman incident." When they won the division in 1984, their first form of address since 1945, manager Jim Frey shouted in the champagne-soaked clubhouse, "The monkey's off our stake!" Just about fans took that as the kiss of death... which it proved to be, as the Padres unpunctual-inning rally in the final spirited in San Diego conspicuous a hopper slippery under the glove of offse baseman Leon Durham... an eerie forerunner to a similar and much-more-memorialized incident with the Red Sox and former Cubs first baseman Bill Buckner that would occur two years later. That requires a quick bring up of the "Ex-Cubs Ingredien", an branch of the main Cubs "curse": that any team reaching the brand-season since the 1945 Series, and having 3 OR more ex-Cubs, was almost certainly doomed to lose in either the playoffs OR the Serial publication overdue to "a critical sight of Cubness". The 1960 Pirates had been the lone exception until 2001, when the Diamondbacks efficaciously ended talk of that curse by winning the Serial publication in a dramatic end that featured 2 of the 3 ex-Cubs, one of them (Luis Gonzalez) providing the serial publication-winning Run batted in.

The White Sox had the best successful per centum of whatsoever American League team from 1901 to 1920 (1,638–1,325 for a 0.553 winning percentage), but quickly slipped to among the worst teams afterward that. Many another point to the Grim Sox scandal surrounding the 1919 World Series as the point in history that metamorphic the White Sox fortunes. Eight White Sox players conspired to designedly lose the World Serial publication, and in 1920 were illegal from baseball for life. While the White Sox won 4 AL titles in the first 20 years of their existence, they would win only one more league championship in the twentieth C. The term "curse" has rarely been utilized as so much, since the scandal was perceived to be something the players did to themselves rather than being formed by the front office conducting ill-advised transactions or committing public relations gaffes. In fact, many White Sox fans take offense to the term "curse." Still, a dash seemed to settle on the franchise (along with a slim budget), and it would be the net years of the Eisenhower administration before they would win the league championship again. When the White Sox clinched the pennant in 1959, broadcaster Jack Brickhouse crowned his play-by-play with, "A twoscore year wait has now ended!" The 2005 waf finished a forty-6-year delay for the future one, while the 2005 World Championship ended an 88-year wait for a World Series victory. This adds a decidedly interesting twist happening the rivalry as there were, until 2005, very a couple of fans for either team who were alive to see one side actually claim a title while the other waited.

Club success [edit out]

Squad World Series Titles League pennants Sectionalization titles Wild Scorecard Berths Playoff Appearances World Series Appearances All-fourth dimension Diarrhoetic Season Record Win Part
Chicago Cubs[15] 3 17 8 3 21 11 11,087–10,521 .513
Chicago White Sox[16] 3 6 6 1 11 5 9,411–9,309 .503
Combined 6 23 14 4 32 16 20,498–19,830 .508

Note: Pennants won by both teams let in pennants won earlier the Contemporary world Series.
As of October 4, 2022.

Unofficial of results [edit]

Cubs wins White Sox wins Cubs runs White Sox runs
Regular season 64 70 616 618
Humans Series 2 4 18 22
Total 66 74 634 640

Updated to most recent meeting, 29 August 2022

Series results [edit]

Notes: All unfit scores are traded with the visiting grievance first.
In the history of the Crosstown cupful, if the series is knotted, the cup is awarded to the previous season winner.

Season Temper serial at Newmarket Cubs
CHW–CHC
at Chicago Diluted Sox
CHC–CHW
Notes
1906 World Serial publication White Sox 4–2 2–1; 3–0; 8–6 7–1; 1–0; 3–8 Only World Series meeting 'tween the 2 franchises.
1997 White Sox 2–1 No games 8–3; 3–5; 0–3
1998 Cubs 3–0 5–6 (12); 6–7; 7–13 no games
1999 White Sox 4–2 5–3(6); 8–2; 6–4 2–3; 10–2; 6–3 First year of 6-game home-and-nursing home series
White Sox brush Cubs at Wrigley Subject field
2000 Tie 3–3 4–2(12); 2–9; 6–9 5–6 (14); 3–4; 6–5
2001 White Sox 4–2 1–5; 7–2; 3–1 3–7 (10); 4–3(10); 1–3
2002 Standoff 3–3 4–8; 3–7; 10–7 9–13; 4–5; 9–2
2003 White Sox 4–2 12–3; 7–6; 1–2 3–4; 6–7; 5–2
2004 Cubs 4–2 2–6; 2–4 (6); 1–2 7–4; 3–6; 4–9 Cubs swing White Sox at Wrigley Airfield
2005 Tie 3–3 5–1(10); 5–3; 3–4 2–12; 6–2; 2–0 White Sox come through the 2005 World Series, their first in 88 years
2006 Segregated Sox 4–2 6–2; 8–6; 11–15 1–6; 0–7; 7–4 A. J. Pierzynski, Michael Barrett incident.
2007 Cubs 5–1 3–6; 6–11; 10–6 5–1; 2–1; 3–0 Cubs sweep White Sox at U.S. Cellular Branch of knowledg
2008 Tie 3–3 3–4; 7–11; 1–7 3–10; 5–6; 1–5 First time the two teams played as leaders of their respective divisions.
Both teams won their division
Some teams qualified for playoffs for the first time since 1906
Some teams sweep each other at their house ballparks
2009 White Sox 4–2 4–1; 5–6; 5–0 5–4; 7–8; 0–6
2010 White Sox 4–2 10–5; 2–1; 0–1 0–6; 2–3; 8–6 First Cross-town Cupful series.
Carlos Zambrano tirade
Cubs cease a White Sox 11-game winning stripe
2011 Egg white Sox 4–2 6–4; 1–0; 1–3 6–3; 2–3; 3–4
2012 White Sox 4–2 3–2; 7–4; 6–0 12–3; 2–1; 0–7 White Sox sweep Cubs at Wrigley field
2013 Cubs 4–0 3–9; 3–8 7–0; 8–2 Serial publication changed to four-game format with two in each ballpark exclude in years the AL Central plays the NL Center (2015, 2022, etc.)
Cubs sweep the season serial publication
2014 Edward Douglas White Jr Sox 3–1 3–1(12); 5–1 3–8; 12–5
2015 Affiliation 3–3 1–0; 5–1; 1–3 8–1; 3–1; 1–3 Unintegrated Sox continue the Crosstown Transfuse.
2016 Link up 2–2 1–8; 1–3 4–5; 0–3 Edward White Sox retain the Crosstown Cup.
Cubs win the 2022 World Series, their first in 108 years
2017 Cubs 3–1 3–1; 2–7 8–3; 6–3
2018 Cubs 4–2 2–11; 4–8; 5–3 4–10; 8–3; 6–1
2019 Tie 2–2 3–1; 3–7 6–3; 1–3 Cubs Retain the Crosstown Cup
2020 Sleeper 3–3 10–1; 7–4; 1–2 10–0; 5–9; 10–8 Cubs Retain the Crosstown Transfuse.
Both teams qualified for playoffs for the first time since 2008.
2021 White Sox 5–1 8–6(10); 4–0; 9–3 13–17; 7–0; 1–13 Theodore Harold White Sox sweep Cubs at Wrigley Field
Day-to-day Flavor White Sox 70–64 at Michigan Cubs
White Sox, 35–32
at Newmarket White Sox
Edward White Sox, 35–32
Postseason White Sox 4–2 at Chicago Cubs
White Sox, 3–0
at Chicago White Sox
Cubs, 2–1
Whole T. H. White Sox 74–66 at Boodle Cubs
White Sox, 38–32
at Chicago White Sox
White Sox, 36–34

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See also [edit]

  • Major League Baseball rivalries
  • Majors Baseball game Geographical Rivalries
  • Bay Bridge Series, Oakland Sport vs. San Francisco Giants
  • Freeway Series, City of the Angels Angels vs. Los Angeles Dodgers
  • Subway Series/Mets-Yankees, New York Mets vs. New York State Yankees, etc.
  • Beltway Series, Baltimore Orioles vs. Washington Nationals
  • Citrus Series, Miami Marlins vs. Tampa Bay Rays
  • Show-ME Series, Saint Louis Cardinals vs. Kansas City Royals
  • OH Cup, Cincinnati Reds vs. Cleveland Indians
  • Lonely Star Series, Houston Astros vs. Texas Rangers

Footnotes [edit]

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  2. ^ Jameson, Deirdre. "This Weekend [ permanent tired radio link ] ". USA Today Sports Section. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b Dodd, Mike; Keen, Judy (Oct 3, 2008). "There Are Cardinal Sides To the Report for Cubs and White Sox Fans". USA Today.
  4. ^ Chicago's Civil War
  5. ^ Michael Jordan plays rightfield for the White Sox Major Conference Baseball along YouTube
  6. ^ Bannon, Tim (June 17, 2022). "7 Things to Know about the Cubs-Sox City Series, Including Some Happened to the BP Loving cup and WGN-TV's Last hurrah". Michigan Tribune . Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  7. ^ a b c "Cubs' Barrett slugs Pierzynski, leads to melee". ESPN.com. Associated Press. May 20, 2006.
  8. ^ a b "Cubs' Barrett slugs Pierzynski, leads to melee". ESPN. Retrieved Oct 23, 2008.
  9. ^ "Cubs' tempers boil, bats fizzle as ChiSox acquire". ESPN.com. Connected Press. May 20, 2006.
  10. ^ "Barrett suspended 10 games for igniting brawl". ESPN.com. Associated Wardrobe. May 26, 2006.
  11. ^ Newman, Mark (July 6, 2006). "Nomar, A.J. titled Final Vote winners". MLB.com . Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  12. ^ http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/03/29/white-sox-agape-new-bar-and-restaurant/ Blank Sox open up new banish and restaurant
  13. ^ Thigpen, David (2005-10-23). "All Year, a Miracle". Time. Archived from the original on October 27, 2005. Retrieved 2008-10-06 .
  14. ^ "Obama Tweaks Cubs. Again". Chicagoist. Archived from the original along 2010-05-01.
  15. ^ https://www.baseball-reference book.com/teams/CHC/ Michigan Cubs account at baseball-reference.com
  16. ^ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHW/ Chicago Ovalbumin Sox history at baseball game-citation.com
  17. ^ Head-to-head games

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