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Article: WORLD SERIES GAME 4; CHICAGO 1, HOUSTON 0 (WHITE SOX WIN SERIES 4-0); 88 years later, White Sox win; Enough with the Black Sox scandal. The White Sox won their first championship since 1917 by winning the way they did all season, squeaking out a one-run victory against Houston for a World Series sweep.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 27, 2005
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Byline: Joe Christensen; Staff Writer
Houston, Texas -- Silly sportswriters.
All those references to curses - the Bambino, the Billy Goat, the Black Sox.
If baseball has taught us anything the last two Octobers, it's this: When a team's time comes, it comes.
How else to describe Wednesday night, when the Chicago White Sox defeated the Houston Astros 1-0 at Minute Maid Park to win their first World Series since 1917?
How else to describe Freddy Garcia's seven gritty innings, the sequence leading to Jermaine Dye's run-scoring single in the eighth, and those two amazing plays by shortstop Juan Uribe to finish the season?
How else to describe the stretch ...