Chicago White Sox
2025 Chicago White Sox season
Logo Cap insignia
Established in 1894 Based in Chicago since 1900
Major league affiliations
American League (1901–present) Central Division (1994–present) West Division (1969–1993)
Current uniform
Retired numbers	2 3 4 9 11 14 16 19 35 56 72 42
Colors
Black, silver, white[a][2][3]
Name
Chicago White Sox (1904–present) Chicago White Stockings (1900–1903) St. Paul Saints (1895–1899) Sioux City Cornhuskers (1894)
Other nicknames
The Sox The Chi Sox The South Siders The Pale Hose The Good Guys The Black Sox (1919)
Ballpark
Rate Field (1991–present) Comiskey Park (1910–1990) Milwaukee County Stadium (1968–1969)[b] South Side Park (1900–1910) Lexington Park (1897–1899)
Major league titles
World Series titles (3)	1906 1917 2005
AL Pennants (7)	1900[c] 1901 1906 1917 1919 1959 2005
WL Pennants (1)	1894
AL West Division titles (2)	1983 1993
AL Central Division titles (4)	2000 2005 2008 2021
Wild card berths (1)	2020
Front office
Principal owner(s)	Jerry Reinsdorf
General manager	Chris Getz
Manager	Will Venable
Website	mlb.com/whitesox

The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The White Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central Division. The club plays its home games at Rate Field, which is located on Chicago's South Side. They are one of two MLB teams based in Chicago, alongside the National League (NL)'s Chicago Cubs. The White Sox are known as the "South Siders", a reference to the location of their home park.

The White Sox originated in the Western League, founded as the Sioux City Cornhuskers in 1894, moving to Saint Paul, Minnesota, as the St. Paul Saints, and ultimately relocating to Chicago in 1900. The Chicago White Stockings were one of the American League's eight charter franchises when the AL asserted major league status in 1901. The team, which shortened its name to the White Sox in 1904, originally played their home games at South Side Park before moving to Comiskey Park in 1910, where they played until 1990. They then moved into a new home, which was also known as Comiskey Park like its predecessor and later carried sponsorship from U.S. Cellular, for the 1991 season.^[4]

The White Sox won their first World Series, the 1906 World Series against the Cubs, with a defense-oriented team dubbed "the Hitless Wonders", and later won the 1917 World Series against the New York Giants. Their next appearance, the 1919 World Series, was marred by the Black Sox Scandal in which eight members of the White Sox were found to have conspired with gamblers to fix games and lose the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. In response, the new Commissioner of Baseball, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, banned the players from the league for life. The White Sox have only made two World Series appearances since the scandal. The first came in 1959, where they lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers, before they finally won their third championship in 2005 against the Houston Astros. The 88 seasons it took the White Sox to win the World Series stands as the longest MLB championship drought in the American League, and the second longest in both leagues, to the Cubs' 108 seasons.

From 1901 to 2024, the White Sox have an overall win-loss record of 9,599–9,628–103 (.499).^[5]

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