Brett Ballantini has written about baseball, basketball and sometimes hockey for the NBA, MLB, NHL, and Slam, Hoop, Sporting News, the Athletic, Sports Illustrated, South Side Hit Pen, Sox Populi, SB Nation and others. He was CSN Chicago’s Blackhawks beat writer when their 49-year Stanley Cup drought ended in 2009-10, and moved to the White Sox beat after that. Brett has run South Side Sox since 2018.
1923
The man who would grow up to be nicknamed “Moose,” Walt Dropo, was born in Moosup, Conn.
Dropo would grow to 6´5´´, 220 pounds (gargantuan for the time, still pretty big today!