In January 1963, Aparicio was dealt to the Baltimore Orioles. Aparicio was second to teammate Nellie Fox in the 1959 AL MVP voting as the White Sox won their first pennant in 40 years. He made the first of nine All-Star appearances with Chicago in 1958, the same year he claimed the first of seven Gold Gloves he would win for the franchise. The kid didn’t disappoint, winning Rookie of the Year honors in a landslide in 1956. Mount Rushmore of White Sox shortstops: Luis Aparicioīased in part upon the recommendation of their shortstop at the time, Chico Carrasquel, the Chicago White Sox made the decision to sign a Venezuelan teenager named Luis Aparicio after the Cleveland Indians passed on the 19-year-old because he was deemed too small by general manager Hank Greenberg, according to the Society for American Baseball Research.Īfter two seasons in the minor leagues, the Indians wound up with Carrasquel as the White Sox traded the All-Star and made room in the lineup for Aparicio.

He was 10-30 as interim manager for the A’s in 1967 and worked in the Atlanta Braves organization as a batting instructor until 1990, according to the Society for American Baseball Research. But Chicago never got higher than fourth in the standings.Īppling is the franchise’s all-time leader in Wins Above Replacement among position players (77.1), games played (2,422), at-bats and plate appearances (8,856 and 10,254, respectively), hits (2,749) and despite hitting just 45 career home runs is one of only three White Sox players to drive in more than 1,000 runs for the franchise, joining Frank Thomas and Paul Konerko.Īppling was voted into the Hall of Fame in 1964 and spent seven seasons as a minor-league manager, while also coaching with the Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Athletics. The White Sox were only a serious contender in the American League once during Appling’s long career, getting to within four games of the AL lead in mid-September 1940 before fading with eight losses in their final 12 games. But he finished second each season he won the batting title. A seven-time All-Star, Appling never won a Most Valuable Player award. He missed the 1944 season and most of 1945 while in the military and spent his final season as a reserve before the White Sox released him in November 1950 (for all the sentimentality about the good old days, baseball seems to have always been a business).Īppling was a two-time American League batting champion, hitting. He spent most of the next two decades as a fixture at shortstop for the South Siders.

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