1973 Chicago White Sox season

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1973 Chicago White Sox
Major league affiliations
American League (since 1901) American League West (since 1969)
Location
Comiskey Park (since 1910) Chicago, Illinois (since 1900)
1973 information
Owner(s)	Arthur Allyn, Jr. and John Allyn
Manager(s)	Chuck Tanner
Local television	WSNS-TV (Harry Caray, Bob Waller)
Local radio	WMAQ (AM) (Harry Caray, Gene Osborn)
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The 1973 Chicago White Sox season was the team's 73rd season in the major leagues, and its 74th season overall. They finished with a record 77-85, good enough for fifth place in the American League West, 17 games behind the first-place Oakland Athletics.

Contents

1 Offseason
2 Regular season
3 Player stats
- 3.1 Batting
- 3.2 Pitching
4 Farm system
5 Awards and honors
6 Notes
7 References

Offseason

October 19, 1972: Walt Williams was traded by the White Sox to the Cleveland Indians for Eddie Leon.^[1]
February 1, 1973: Jim Lyttle was traded by the White Sox to the Kansas City Royals for Joe Keough.^[2]
February 7, 1973: Chuck Hartenstein and Glenn Redmon were traded by the White Sox to the San Francisco Giants for Skip Pitlock.^[3]

Regular season

July 20, 1973: Wilbur Wood became the last pitcher in the 20th century to start both ends of a doubleheader.^[4]

Opening Day lineup

Season standings

AL West	W	L	GB	Pct.
Oakland Athletics	94	68	--	.580
Kansas City Royals	88	74	6	.543
Minnesota Twins	81	81	13	.500
California Angels	79	83	15	.488
Chicago White Sox	77	85	17	.475
Texas Rangers	57	105	37	.352

Notable transactions

August 15, 1973: Jim Kaat was selected off waivers by the White Sox from the Minnesota Twins.^[5]
August 29, 1973: Eddie Fisher was purchased by the St. Louis Cardinals from the Chicago White Sox. ^[6]

Roster

1973 Chicago White Sox

Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Other batters

46 Joe Keough

Manager

7 Chuck Tanner

Coaches

Player stats

Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; BB = Base on balls; SO = Strikeouts; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	SB
Cy Acosta, PH	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	0
Dick Allen, 1B	72	250	39	79	20	3	16	41	33	51	.316	7
Hank Allen, 1B,LF	28	39	2	4	2	0	0	0	1	9	.103	0
Luis Alvarado, 2B,SS,3B	80	203	21	47	7	2	0	20	4	20	.232	6
Mike Andrews, DH,1B,2B,3B	52	159	10	32	9	0	0	10	23	28	.201	0
Buddy Bradford, CF	53	168	24	40	3	1	8	15	17	43	.238	4
Chuck Brinkman, C	63	139	13	26	6	0	1	10	11	37	.187	0
Bucky Dent, SS	40	117	17	29	2	0	0	10	10	18	.248	2
Brian Downing, C,3B,RF,LF	34	73	5	13	1	0	2	4	10	17	.178	0
Sam Ewing, 1B	11	20	1	3	1	0	0	2	2	6	.150	0
Terry Forster, PH	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Jerry Hairston, LF,1B,DH	60	210	25	57	11	1	0	23	33	30	.271	0
Ken Henderson, CF,DH,LF	73	262	32	68	13	0	6	32	27	49	.260	3
Ed Herrmann, C	119	379	42	85	17	1	10	39	31	55	.224	2
Johnny Jeter, OF	89	300	38	72	14	4	7	26	9	74	.240	4
Pat Kelly, RF	144	550	77	154	24	5	1	44	65	91	.280	22
Joe Keough, PH	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Eddie Leon, SS,2B	127	399	37	91	10	3	3	30	34	103	.228	1
Carlos May, DH,LF	149	553	62	148	20	0	20	96	53	73	.268	8
Bill Melton, 3B	152	560	83	155	29	1	20	87	75	66	.277	4
Rich Morales, 3B,2B	7	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	.000	0
Tony Muser, 1B,DH	109	309	38	88	14	3	4	30	33	36	.285	8
Jorge Orta, 2B,DH	128	425	46	113	9	10	6	40	37	87	.266	8
Rick Reichardt, LF,CF,DH	46	153	15	42	8	1	3	16	8	29	.275	2
Bill Sharp, CF,LF	77	196	23	54	8	3	4	22	19	28	.276	2
Pete Varney, C	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	0
Team totals	162	5475	652	1400	228	38	111	598	537	952	.256	83

Pitching

Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; HR = Home runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K
Cy Acosta	10	6	2.23	48	0	18	97.0	66	30	24	8	42	60
Stan Bahnsen	18	21	3.57	42	42	0	282.1	290	128	112	20	119	120
Dave Baldwin	0	0	3.60	3	0	0	5.0	7	2	2	0	5	1
Eddie Fisher	6	7	4.88	26	16	0	110.2	135	64	60	12	39	57
Terry Forster	6	11	3.23	51	12	16	172.2	174	69	62	7	84	120
Ken Frailing	0	0	1.96	10	0	0	18.1	18	6	4	1	7	15
Jim Geddes	0	0	2.87	6	1	0	15.2	14	6	5	0	14	7
Goose Gossage	0	4	7.43	20	4	0	49.2	57	44	41	9	39	33
Bart Johnson	3	3	4.13	22	9	0	80.2	76	39	37	6	40	56
Jim Kaat	4	1	4.22	7	7	0	42.2	44	23	20	4	4	16
Steve Kealey	0	0	15.09	7	0	0	11.1	23	22	19	2	8	4
Jim McGlothlin	0	1	3.91	5	1	0	18.1	13	8	8	2	13	14
Denny O'Toole	0	0	5.63	6	0	0	16.0	23	11	10	3	3	8
Steve Stone	6	11	4.24	36	22	1	176.1	163	87	83	11	82	138
Wilbur Wood	24	20	3.46	49	48	0	359.1	381	166	138	25	94	199
Team totals	77	85	3.86	162	162	35	1456.0	1484	705	625	110	593	848

Farm system

Level	Team	League	Manager
AAA	Iowa Oaks	American Association	Joe Sparks
AA	Knoxville White Sox	Southern League	Jim Napier
A	Appleton Foxes	Midwest League	Deacon Jones and Bert Thiel
Rookie	GCL White Sox	Gulf Coast League	Joe Jones

Awards and honors

All-Star Game

Pat Kelly, reserve^[8]

Notes

^ Walt Williams page at Baseball Reference
^ Joe Keough page at Baseball Reference
^ Chuck Hartenstein page at Baseball-Reference
^ Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p. 136, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, NY, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0
^ Jim Kaat page at Baseball Reference
^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fisheed02.shtml
^ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball. Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, 1997
^ http://www.baseball-almanac.com/asgbox/yr1973as.shtml

References

1973 Chicago White Sox at Baseball Reference

v t e 1973 MLB season by team

AL East	Baltimore Boston Cleveland Detroit Milwaukee New York

AL West	California Chicago Kansas City Minnesota Oakland Texas

NL East	Chicago Montréal New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Louis

NL West	Atlanta Cincinnati Houston Los Angeles San Diego San Francisco

1973 All-Star Game 1973 World Series

Chicago White Sox

Formerly the Sioux City Cornhuskers, St. Paul Saints, and the White Stockings • Based in Chicago, Illinois

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Retired numbers

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Key personnel

Owners: Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn • General Manager: Kenny Williams • Manager: Robin Ventura • Team Captain: Paul Konerko

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