I grew up in Denver prior to 1960 the closest ball club to Denver was the southside of Chicago - simple as that. It also happened to coincide with a 1959 world series. I didn't know at the time - that the Sox get to the World Series once every 45 years.
and wasn't denver a white sox affiliate for a time?
Not as far as I know Iddy - in 57 and 58 the Denver Bears were affiliated with the NY Yankees - Tony Kubek was a guy I saw come up. By 1960 the Tigers had a long run with the Bears as their AAA affiliate - which brought Dick McAuliffe - Phil Niekro - Joe Niekro - Sandy Alomar - Bill Freehan - Denny McLain - Mickey Lolich, Don Wirt, Willie Horton and Jake Wood. In the later 60s the Bears were a Twins affiliate.
Damn. Let's hope it's not anything serious.
SHIT!
So i checked it out. The “sky sox” from Colorado springs were affiliated with the sox from ’50 to ’58. The denver bears in ’75, ’83 and ’84 included … if I read this right. List of Chicago White Sox minor league affiliates - Wikipedia
No doubt iddy you are the unofficial White Sox historian on this board. Good stuff!!
I left Denver in 68 and lived in Southern California until 77 (Elvis died) and I moved to Texas.
so, when elvis died you felt you had to move to texas? :P
i remembered they were there at least for a time because i met some of the players there when i played in denver (continental hotel). was surprised it was only the one year in '75.
He died along the way
So a little bit of an update here makes it sorta good news/bad news, with a healthy lean on the good news side:
thebaseballkid98.blogspot.com
Two hitters I'm gonna follow this Spring are Burger and Sheets. As you already alluded, Burger is indeed the feel-good story of this Spring. The man can rake and I suspect might be a bit better with the glove than perhaps his rep currently carries. And what I like about Sheets is he's dedicated himself to try and be more than just another 1b/DH player in this organization - he sees that we already have enough of those. He wasn't invited to the alternate training site this past summer, so he dedicated himself on his own practice time to hone his OF skills to at least offer a bit more versatility to the team.
This explains why @Jiddy often posts 3 sheets to the wind. If Vaughn doesn't make it at DH to start the season Sheets is a likely candidate -being a coveted lefty.
I'm still not convinced that Vaughn goes north with the team when the season begins. But as that video indicates, it's not due to lack of talent by any stretch. The Sox will have to prove to us fans that they'll disregard the service time issue. And unless they sign him to a Jimenez/Robert type of extension which would take any service time issues out of the equation, they'll have to forgo an extra year of having Vaughn under contract by taking him north immediately. I find it hard to believe that they'll take this latter course.
I used to feel this way and I suspect the Hahn is trying to get Vaughn to sign a contract, but he may go north anyway - as he is already staggered a year down the road from the rest of the roster which is almost as important as the years of control. Another factor is the league will have to come to agreement with the players union by next year and the player's union will address this issue and may free Vaughn anyway with the agreement.
