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116 years ago today, the White Sox and Tigers played an 18-error game — 12 by the Sox — that remains a baseball record

The sports writers of 1903 couldn’t have known what significance a sloppy May 6 game between the White Stockings (now White Sox) and Tigers would hold in baseball history, but they knew what they witnessed was far from normal.

“The craziest game that ever disgraced a major-league diamond,” a report said in the May 7 Chicago Daily Tribune.

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The Detroit Free Press called it “a contest that was about as weird a one as was ever played by big-league teams.