1919 White Sox

 

88 - 52

AL Pennant

Lost the World Series 5 games to 3 to the Cincinnati Reds

 

Highlights:

 

Best known for the Black Sox scandal of 1919 when the team threw the Series for money. Should have been Hall of Famers "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Eddie Ciccotte were banned from baseball for life.

 

Shoeless Joe Jackson batted .351, had 7 homeruns, 14 Triples and 96 Rbis.

 

Eddie Collins batted .319 with 33 Steals.

 

Nemo Leibold also batted over .300 with a mark of .302

 

Eddie Ciccotte had an unbelievable season in 1919. He went 29 - 7, a 1.82 ERA, 30 Complete Games and only gave up 62 Earned runs in 306.7 IP. That season is mindboggling.

 

Ciccotte's season overshadowed Lefty Williams spectacular year. He also had over 20 wins with 23 with 11 losses and 27 Complete Games.

 

No All-Star game prior to 1933.

 

 

 

 

 

1996 Braves

 

96 - 66; First in the NL East

Won NL Division Series (3-0) over Los Angeles Dodgers

Won NL Championship Series (4-3) over St. Louis Cardinals

Lost World Series (4-2) to New York Yankees

 

Highlights:

 

Ryan Klesko led the team in homeruns with 34. He also had 93 Rbis and a .282 avg.

 

Chipper Jones had a spectaculer season with 30 homeruns, 110 Rbis, 14 Steals, 32 Doubles and a .530 Slugging Percentage.

 

Fred McGriff batted .295 with 28 homeruns and 107 Rbis.

 

The Braves rotation had an awesome ERA at the top. Glavine had a 2.98, Maddux with a 2.72 and Smoltz had a 2.94.

 

John Smoltz had the best season of the three overall. His record was 24 - 8 to go along with that great ERA. His 276 strikeouts were very impressive as well.

 

Closer Mark Wohlers had 39 saves, 3.03 ERA and 100Ks in 77 innings.

 

All Stars:

 

Tom Glavine

Chipper Jones

Greg Maddux

Fred McGriff

John Smoltz

Mark Wohlers

Ciccotte is enough for my vote alone.

The Sox.

The Black Sox can rot in hell.

 

Go Braves.

Braves

the chi sox

Try and watch the movie Eight Men Out sometime.. good flick about the '19 scandal.

Socks.

Sox

Sox, if their owner wasn't such a greedy cheap-ass the players wouldn't have had to do that and would've won.