1968 Chicago White Sox season

MLB yearly infobox-pre1969 alt
name = Chicago White Sox
season = 1968
misc =

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
Uniform
ballpark = White Sox Park
y4 = 1910
city = Chicago, Illinois
y5 = 1900
owners = Arthur Allyn, Jr., John Allyn
general manager = Ed Short
managers = Eddie Stanky, Al Lopez
television = WFLD
[Dave Martin, Jack Drees)
radio =WMAQ (AM)
(Bob Elson, Red Rush) |The 1968 Chicago White Sox season was the White Sox's 69th season. They finished with a record 67-95, good enough for 8th place in the American League, 36 games behind of the 1st place Detroit Tigers.

Offseason

* October 16, 1967: Smoky Burgess was released by the White Sox. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/burgesm01.shtml Smoky Burgess page at Baseball Reference.] ]
* October 26, 1967: Marv Staehle was sent by the White Sox to the Cleveland Indians to complete an earlier deal (the White Sox traded Jim King and a player to be named later to the Indians for Rocky Colavito) made on July 29, 1967. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/staehma01.shtml Marv Staehle page at Baseball Reference.] ]
* November 29, 1967: Don Buford, Roger Nelson and Bruce Howard were traded by the White Sox to the Baltimore Orioles for Luis Aparicio, Russ Snyder and John Matias. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/n/nelsoro02.shtml Roger Nelson page at Baseball Reference.] ]
* December 15, 1967: Tommie Agee and Al Weis were traded by the White Sox to the New York Mets for Tommy Davis, Jack Fisher, Billy Wynne, and Buddy Booker. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/a/ageeto01.shtml Tommie Agee page at Baseball Reference] ]

Regular season

1968 Opening Day Lineup

* Luis Aparicio, ss
* Tommy McCraw, 1b
* Tommy Davis, lf
* Pete Ward, rf
* Ken Boyer, 3b
* Duane Josephson, c
* Ken Berry, cf
* Tim Cullen, 2b
* Joel Horlen, p

eason standings

Games in Milwaukee

To demonstrate there still was support for big-league ball in Milwaukee, Bud Selig's group contracted with Chicago White Sox owner Arthur Allyn to host nine White Sox home games at Milwaukee County Stadium in 1968. A 1967 exhibition game between the White Sox and Minnesota Twins had attracted more than 51,000 spectators, and Selig was convinced the strong Milwaukee fan base would demonstrate the city would provide a good home for a new club.

The experiment was staggeringly successful - those nine games drew 264,297 fans. In Chicago that season, the Sox drew 539,478 fans to their remaining 58 home games. In just a handful of games, the Milwaukee crowds accounted for nearly "one-third" of the total attendance at White Sox games. In light of this success, Selig and Allyn agreed County Stadium would host Sox home games again the next season.

Notable transactions

*June 7, 1968: Rich McKinney was drafted by the White Sox in the 1st round (14th pick) of the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mckinri01.shtml Rich McKinney page at Baseball Reference.] ]

Roster

Starting pitchers

External links

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHW/1968.shtml 1968 Chicago White Sox at Baseball Reference]