Chicago White Sox - The World War II Years (1940-1949)  
   
 
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        Yr P W L   Yr P W L   Yr P W L               1940  
        1940 4 82 72   1943 4 82 72   1947 6 70 84               Decade  
        1941 3 77 77   1944 7 71 83   1948 8 51 101               Click  
        1942 6 66 82   1945 6 71 78   1949 6 63 91               on Logo  
                  1946 5 74 80                            
                                                       
   
  Titles: None Top White Sox Players during the World War II Years  
     
  BallPark: Comiskey Park Pitchers:  
    Orval Grove (2.59) -      41  
  Team Name: White Sox Ed Lopat (10.6) -      40  
    Eddie Smith (8.2) -      39  
  Owner: Grace Comiskey  Thornton Lee (16.42) -      36  
    Joe Haynes (12.21) -      35  
  General Manager: Harry Grabiner (1915-1945) Bill Dietrich (3.45)-      32  
   Leslie O'Connor (1946-1948) Ted Lyons (11.02) -      28  
  Frank Lane (1948-1949) John Humphries (7.18) -      27  
    Johnny Rigney (12.36) -      21  
  Managers: Jimmy Dykes (1940-1946) Bill Wight (4.54)  -      20  
  Ted Lyons (1946-1948) Frank Papish (4.4) -      15  
  Jack Onslow (1949) Gordon Maltzberger (6.76) -   11  
    Randy Gumpert (4.41) -   10  
  No Hitters: (None)    
    Catchers:  
  Hall of Famers: Mike Tresh (2.42) -      32  
  Luke Appling    
  Ted Lyons  First Basemen:  
  Red Ruffing Joe Kuhel (7.02) -      31  
       
  MVP: None Second Basemen:  
    Cass Michaels (9.23) -      24  
  Notable Events: Don Kolloway (2.56) -      21  
       
  1940 - Upon the death of J Louis Comiskey, ownership of the White ShortStop:  
  Sox goes to his widow, Grace. This is a disaster for White Sox fans Luke Appling (40.76) -      97  
  as Grace is pretty clueless about running the club. She retains     
  ownership until her death sixteen years hence. The team J Louis was Third Base:  
  trying to put together holds up for a couple of years, but, by 1942, Chicago Floyd Baker (6.22) -      10  
  was headed back for the league cellar. Luckily for the Sox, teams like    
  the A's, Browns and Senators made hitting total rock bottom difficult. Outfield:  
    Thurman Tucker (6.71) -      39  
  1940 - The only star player of the decade for Chicago is Luke Appling. Wally Moses (11.64) -      39  
  He was a ten year veteran by the time 1940 rolled around, but he  Taft Wright (12.89) -      38  
  played at a high level thru the end of the decade, still hitting over .300 Dave Philley (3.28) -      22  
  in 1949 at the age of forty two. Mike Kreevich (0.31) -      19  
    Guy Curtright (4.44) -   19  
  1943 - Hall of Famer Luke Appling gets his 2000th hit in 1943. He would Ralph Hodgin (5.41) -      14  
  not make it to 3000 ending up with 2749 hits Bob Kennedy (-3.53) -      12  
    Johnny Dickshot (2.62) -      10  
  1944 - Lefty Ed Lopat, 26, is brought up from Little Rock. He had been a  Oris Hockett (1.53) -      10  
  pitcher in the White Sox minor league chain since 1939. Ed was 4F and     
  played in organized ball through the war.  Notable Events:  
     
  1946 - Jimmy Dykes resigns as Sox manager after twelve years. 1949 - In the first of Frank Lane's major thefts, he picks up twenty two year  
  His tenure is a franchise record. old lefty Billy Pierce from Detroit for journeyman catcher Aaron Robinson.  
    Pierce goes on to be the ace of the Sox staff throughout the Fifties  
  1948 - Frank Lane is hired as General Manager. He turns the club Ironically, before Lane arrived, the Sox had sent ace lefty Eddie Lopat to  
   around via his trades in the early Fifties.  the Yankees in a deal for the same Aaron Robinson. Overall, it ended up  
    as a wash, Lopat for Pierce altho' Pierce was a lot younger  
   1949 - Frank Lane purchases slick fielding shortstop Alfonso     
  Carrasquel from Brooklyn where he was blocked by Pee Wee Reese