White Sox Redemption: The Road to World Series Victory in 2005

by Dan Helpingstine

Overview

Going into the 2005 season, the Chicago White Sox had been to only one World Series in 86 years. Haunted by the 1919 Black Sox scandal and the Disco Demolition disaster in 1979, the team had a recent history of near misses where it lost opportunities to appear in the World Series. These historical nightmares and mishaps hovered over the team as it attempted to finally win a world championship in 2005.

As a hot Cleveland Indian squad attempted to take the AL Central championship away, the White Sox team and fans worried that past disappointments would be repeated. Not only did the team fight off the Indians, it had an incredible post-season where it lost only one game. In the past, everything went wrong. In 2005, everything went right. The Chicago White Sox finally give their fans something they never thought they'd experience: a world championship. This book covers this earthshaking 2005 victory in fine detail, chronicling the build-up, execution, and aftereffects of an unforgettable series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476695839
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	07/18/2025
Pages:	215
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.43(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Dan Helpingstine is a job placement counselor. He lives in Highland, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section One—Overcoming History
 1. Curses
 2. New Beginnings
 3. Saying ­Good-Bye
 4. Ushering in a New Stadium
 5. Bo Knows Baseball
 6. A New Way of Not Going to the World Series
 7. Backlash
 8. Overcoming Backlash
 9. The Wells Season
10. Us vs. Them
11. Ozzie Guillén: Player and Then Manager
Section Two—Making History
12. Exceeding Expectations
13. The American League in the Post-Season
14. One Last Stop to the World Series
15. Game Three: Anaheim
16. Game 4: Almost as If It Was Fixed—In a Different Way
17. Game Five: On the Verge of Making History
18. The Last World Series
19. Houston Astros
Section Three—The World Series
20. Game One
21. Game Two
22. Game Three
23. Game Four
24. Aftermath
25. Decline
26. Legacies
27. Final
Addendum: Roland Hemond, the Man Who Saved the Sox
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index