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Article: Why don't White Sox wear white socks? Simple: Because they don't match Yes, the Black Sox team threw the 1919 World Series. It is our most infamous team, a black mark in history. Yet the modern Sox have marketed that good guys wear black. Are the black socks some sort of sports devil worship?
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- September 18, 2005
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The White Sox are not who they say they are. They are dying in
this pennant race, and I don't know if this is some kind of curse or
something -- or maybe it's just about freaking out over how bad
everything looks now -- but why the black socks? Don't they know what
black socks mean to their history?
I mean, why don't the White Sox wear white socks? Somehow, that
seems like a trick question, like asking who's buried in Grant's
tomb.
But I took it to the greatest Sox historian, the greatest
authority on baseball uniforms, Sox management, manager Ozzie Guillen
and a couple of Sox players.
I don't know," pitcher Bobby Jenks said. Maybe it has something to
do with that World Series team a long ...