1969 Chicago White Sox season

The 1969 Chicago White Sox season was the team's 69th season in the major leagues, and its 70th season overall. They finished with a record 68-94, good enough for fifth place in the newly-established American League West, 29 games behind the first-place Minnesota Twins.

The White Sox nearly left Chicago in 1969. White Sox owner Arthur Allyn, Jr. considered overtures from Bud Selig and other Milwaukee interests to move the club to County Stadium.^[1] Instead, he sold to his brother, John. The newly established Seattle Pilots would move there a year after their inaugural season.

Offseason

• October 15, 1968: Hoyt Wilhelm was drafted from the White Sox by the Kansas City Royals as the 49th pick in the 1968 MLB expansion draft.^[2]
• December 5, 1968: Jack Fisher was traded by the White Sox to the Cincinnati Reds for Don Pavletich and Don Secrist.^[3]

Regular season

Season standings

Opening Day lineup

• Luis Aparicio, ss
• Carlos May, lf
• Bill Melton, 3b
• Gail Hopkins, 1b
• Duane Josephson, c
• Buddy Bradford, rf
• Ken Berry, cf
• Sandy Alomar, 2b
• Gary Peters, p

Move to Milwaukee?

In 1969, the White Sox schedule in Milwaukee was expanded to include 11 home games (one against every other franchise in the American League at the time). Although those games were attended by slightly fewer fans (198,211 fans, for an average of 18,019) they represented a greater percentage of the total White Sox attendance than the previous year - over one-third of the fans who went to Sox home games in 1969 did so at Milwaukee County Stadium (in the remaining 59 home dates in Chicago, the Sox drew 391,335, for an average of 6,632 per game). Bud Selig felt this fan support lent legitimacy to his quest for a Milwaukee franchise, and he went into the 1969 owners meetings with high hopes.^{[citation needed]}

Notable transactions

• May 14, 1969: Sandy Alomar and Bob Priddy were traded by the White Sox to the California Angels for Bobby Knoop.^[4]
• June 5, 1969: Rich Hinton was drafted by the White Sox in the 3rd round of the 1969 Major League Baseball Draft (Secondary Phase).^[5]

Roster

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Appleton, Duluth-Superior

Notes

References

• 1969 Chicago White Sox at Baseball Reference

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