The White Sox signed former two-sport All-Star Bo Jackson to an incentive-loaded contract, with a $700,000 base salary. Division rival Kansas City had released Jackson two weeks earlier, citing a hip injury suffered playing the NFL that was likely to end his career in both sports.
Jackson would have hip replacement surgery and not make a real impact until 1993, when he hit 16 home runs, but the move was a masterful stroke from a public relations standpoint.
2000
An unexpected division championship season didn’t start off promisingly, as the White Sox were buried in Texas, 10-4.