1920 Chicago White Sox season
Major League Baseball season
The 1920 Chicago White Sox season was a season in American baseball.
The team was in contention to defend their American League pennant going into the final week of the season. However, for all intents and purposes, the season ended on September 26, when news of the Black Sox Scandal became public. The team finished with a record of 96-58, which was not only the best record during Comiskey's ownership (and the best finish of the Gleason era), but would remain a franchise record for the next 44 years until 1964 when the Sox won 98 games.
Black Sox Scandal
Owner Charles Comiskey suspended the five players who were still active (the sixth, ringleader Chick Gandil, opted to retire after the 1919 season).
At that time, the White Sox were only a half-game behind the Cleveland Indians, but went 2–2 over their last four games to finish two games out.
They would not finish in the first division again until 1936.
Historic Record in 1920
The 1920 White Sox are one of only two teams in baseball history (The other being the 1971 Baltimore Orioles) to have four 20-game winners: Red Faber, Lefty Williams, Eddie Cicotte, and Dickie Kerr. (The '20 White Sox went one better than the '71 Orioles, in that they had four 21+ game winners.)
Regular season
Shoeless Joe Jackson finished third in AL batting average, and Eddie Collins was fifth. Along with the St.
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