Alright, so you wanna know about them White Sox and their 20-game winners, huh? Well, lemme tell ya, it ain’t as simple as countin’ eggs. But I’ll try to make it plain for ya.
Them White Sox, they had a real good year back in 1920. Real good. They had four fellas winnin’ 20 games or more. Can ya believe that? Four! That’s like havin’ four roosters crowin’ in the mornin’, all at once. Those fellas were Eddie Cicotte, Lefty Williams, Red Faber and that Dickie Kerr fella. They say ain’t no other team done that but them 1971 Baltimore Orioles fellas. That’s somethin’ special, I tell ya. Folks still talkin’ ‘bout it, even now.
- Eddie Cicotte, he won 21 games. That’s a lot of pitchin’, lemme tell ya. My arms get tired just thinkin’ about it.
- Lefty Williams, he had 22 wins. He was a lefty, you know, like his name says. Threw the ball with that wrong hand, but it worked for him, I guess.
- Red Faber, well, he was another one, winnin’ his share too. Don’t rightly remember how many, but it was a bunch, sure enough.
- And that Dickie Kerr, he also helped them Sox get those wins. A good pitcher, he was.
Now, some other fellas won 20 games too, but not all in the same year like them 1920 boys. You had Frank Smith way back when, and Red Faber again in 1915. Clark Griffith, he did it too, and LaMarr Hoyt in 1983. Those are some good pitchers, but that 1920 team, that was somethin’ else.
It’s hard to win 20 games, you know? You gotta be strong, gotta be smart, and gotta have a little luck, I reckon. These fellas, they pitched and pitched, and their arms musta been tired as heck, but they kept goin’. That’s what made them winners, see?
They say other teams had some good pitchers too. Like that Jim Palmer fella for the Orioles, and Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar and Pat Dobson, all winnin’ 20 in ‘71. And that Scott Erickson fella for the Twins, he won 20 in 1991, the year they won the World Series. Good for him, I say. And don’t forget that Dennis Leonard fella, playin’ for the Kansas City Royals, he got 20 wins in ’77.
But we’re talkin’ about the White Sox here, and them 1920 boys, they were somethin’ special. Four 20-game winners. That’s a record that’s hard to beat. It just goes to show ya, when you got a good team, and everyone’s workin’ together, you can do great things. Just like bakin’ a good pie, you need all the right ingredients, and you gotta know how to put ‘em together.
And it ain’t just about them winnin’ 20 games, you see. It’s about how they played, how they fought, how they never gave up. That’s what makes a team great, not just the numbers on the board. It’s the heart, the spirit, the will to win. That’s what them 1920 White Sox had, and that’s why folks still remember ‘em today.
So next time you hear someone talkin’ about baseball, you can tell ‘em about them 1920 White Sox and their four 20-game winners. It’s a story worth tellin’, a story about a team that was truly special. And that’s all there is to it, plain and simple.
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