Game-Changing Pitcher Breaks Yankees' Record!
A challenge trade goes Chicago’s way … eventually
On this day 88 years ago, a challenge trade brought Joe Kuhel to the White Sox. | (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images) 1901 After two seasons with Boston in the National League and ready to take on a bigger role at catcher, Billy Sullivan joined the exodus of players moving from the Senior Circuit to Junior by signing with the White Sox . Sullivan would play with the White Sox for the rest of his career, spanning 13 seasons.
The first 12 was as a regular on the roster, with a 13th coming with a one-game cameo in 1914 after sitting out for a year. His career with the White Sox remained the longest in team history for a player until 1925, when fellow catcher Ray Schalk played his 14th (of 17) seasons with the team. Interestingly, it was Schalk, a teammate of Sullivan, who supplanted the senior player as Chicago’s starting catcher.
And like his mentor, who managed the team in 1909, Schalk would eventually manage the White Sox as well. 1938 It was a challenge trade of first basemen that ended up as a win for the White Sox. Chicago sent 29-year-old Zeke Bonura to Washington for 31-year-old Joe Kuhel .
Bonura’s first four MLB seasons, all on the South Side, earned MVP votes in 1935 and 1936 and amassed 15. 5 WAR and a slash of . 317/.
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