This weekend, the Chicago White Sox return home to Minnesota for a big four-game series against the Twinkies.
Home? Why, yes — the White Sox were Minnesota’s team 61 years before the former Washington Senators came to town!
We’re going back a bit, but the legendary Charles Comiskey bought the Western League’s Sioux City franchise in 1894 and moved them to St. Paul, becoming the St. Paul Apostles. In 1900, when the league announced its intentions to become the American League, officials decided they didn’t want teams in St. Paul, Buffalo or Kansas City, so Comiskey pulled up the carpet tacks and moved the squad to the South Side, becoming our beloved—and currently rebuilding—White Sox.