Doc White Stats & Facts
Doc White Essentials Positions: Bats: L Throws: L 73 Weight: 150 Born: 4 9, 1879 in Washington, DC USA Died: 2 19 1969 in Silver Spring, MD USA Debut: 4/22/1901 Last Game: 10/4/1913 Full Name: Guy Harris White
Doc White Essentials Positions: Bats: L Throws: L 73 Weight: 150 Born: 4 9, 1879 in Washington, DC USA Died: 2 19 1969 in Silver Spring, MD USA Debut: 4/22/1901 Last Game: 10/4/1913 Full Name: Guy Harris White
On April 20, 1910, Addie Joss of the Cleveland Naps pitches his second career no-hitter. A busy Joss helps himself by recording 10 fielding assists during the 1-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
In front nearly 30,000 very enthusiastic fans at South Side Park in the season finale, the White Sox start Doc White, coming off a complete game, on only two days rest in an attempt to thwart the Tigers’ from clinching the pennant. Chicago’s efforts will fail with a 7-0 defeat to Detroit, who capture the AL flag by a half of a game ahead of the Cleveland Naps thanks to a rule that doesn’t require a team to make up a rainout game from earlier in the season.
1907 – Chicago’s Doc White blanks the Browns, 2 – 0. However, his one base on balls ends his American League record run of 65 1/3 innings pitched without issuing a walk. He will win a career high 27 games and walk only 38 in 291 innings.
The White Sox, known as baseball’s ‘hitless wonders’, complete their unbelievable World Series upset of their powerful crosstown rivals, beating the Cubs, 8-3, at South Side Park. The Cubs had won a record 116 regular season games.
1906 – In an all-Chicago World Series, Ed Reulbach’s no-hit bid is broken by Jiggs Donahue’s single in the 7th inning, but the Cubs beat the White Sox, 7 – 1. The next World Series one-hitter will come in 1945, by another Cubs pitcher, Claude Passeau.
Doc White tosses his fifth shutout in eighteen days when he blanks New York at Chicago’s South Side Park, 4-0. The White Sox southpaw will pitch six of his season total of seven shutouts in the month of September.