In a rare Sunday game (Sunday games are not outlawed in Chicago) before an estimated 20,000 fans, the largest American League crowd of the year, White Sox OF Dummy Hoy laces a 2-run single in the bottom of the 9th off Boston’s Cy Young to give Chicago a 4 – 3 win.

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On September 8, 1901 — In a rare Sunday game (Sunday games are not outlawed in Chicago) before an estimated 20,000 fans, the largest American League crowd of the year, White Sox OF Dummy Hoy laces a 2-run single in the bottom of the 9th off Boston’s Cy Young to give Chicago a 4 – 3 win.

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