1969 Chicago White Sox season

MLB yearly infobox alt
name = Chicago White Sox
season = 1969
misc =

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
division = American League West
y2 = 1969
Uniform
ballpark = White Sox Park
y4 = 1910
city = Chicago, Illinois
y5 = 1900
owners = Arthur Allyn, Jr., John Allyn
general managers = Ed Short
managers = Al Lopez, Don Gutteridge
television = WFLD
Mel Parnell, Jack Drees)
radio =WMAQ (AM)
(Bob Elson, Red Rush) |The 1969 Chicago White Sox season was the White Sox's 70th season. They finished with a record 68-94, good enough for 5th place in the American League West, 29 games behind of the 1st place Minnesota Twins. The Chicago White Sox have nearly left Chicago in 1969. White Sox owner Arthur Allyn considered overtures from Bud Selig and other Milwaukee interests to move the club to County Stadium. [ [http://whitesoxinteractive.com/History&Glory/SaveOurSox.htm WSI's FLYINGSOCK.COM. Chicago White Sox coverage with totally biased attitude! ] ] Instead, he sold to his brother, John.

Offseason

October 15, 1968: Hoyt Wilhelm was drafted from the White Sox by the Kansas City Royals as the 49th pick in the 1968 expansion draft. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/w/wilheho01.shtml Hoyt Wilhelm page at Baseball Reference] ]

Regular Season

eason standings

Move to Milwaukee?

In 1969, the White Sox schedule in Milwaukee was expanded to include 11 home games (one against every other franchise in the American League at the time). Although those games were attended by slightly fewer fans (198,211 fans, for an average of 18,019) they represented a greater percentage of the total White Sox attendance than the previous year - over one-third of the fans who went to Sox home games in 1969 did so at County Stadium (in the remaining 59 home dates in Chicago, the Sox drew 391,335 for an average of 6,632 per game). Selig felt this fan support lent legitimacy to his quest for a Milwaukee franchise, and he went into the 1968 owners meetings with high hopes.

Transactions

*May 14, 1969: Sandy Alomar and Bob Priddy were traded by the White Sox to the California Angels for Bobby Knoop. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/a/alomasa01.shtml Sandy Alomar page at Baseball Reference] ]
*June 5, 1969: Rich Hinton was drafted by the White Sox in the 3rd round of the 1969 Major League Baseball Draft (Secondary Phase). [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hintori01.shtml Rich Hinton page at Baseball Reference] ]

Roster

Starting pitchers

External links

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHW/1969.shtml 1969 Chicago White Sox at Baseball Reference]