The Yankees make their only appearance of the season on the South Side this weekend, beginning Thursday night when Ivan Nova faces his former team.
Though they haven’t been classic rivals since baseball split into a divisional format in 1969, the Yankees traditionally have been one of the biggest draws in Chicago — six of the top nine regular-season attendance totals at old Comiskey Park were Yankees-White Sox games.
They come to town only once a year now because of the unbalanced schedule, and the Sox are expecting strong crowds for the four-game series.