Here is a comprehensive summary of the Chicago White Sox:

The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team based on Chicago's South Side, where they play their home games at Rate Field and are famously known as the "South Siders." The franchise originated in 1894 as the Sioux City Cornhuskers, moved to Chicago in 1900 under the ownership of Charles Comiskey, and became a charter member of the American League in 1901, officially shortening its name to the White Sox in 1904. They won their first World Series in 1906 as the "Hitless Wonders" against the crosstown Cubs, and again in 1917, but their 1919 appearance was marred by the infamous Black Sox Scandal, in which eight players conspired to fix games and were subsequently banned for life by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Following that scandal, the team endured a long championship drought, making only one World Series appearance in 1959 (a loss to the Dodgers) before finally winning their third title in 2005 against the Houston Astros. That 88-year gap between championships stands as the longest in American League history and the second-longest in MLB, trailing only the Cubs' 108-year wait. As of 2025, the team holds an overall career record of 9,654–9,714–103 (.498).