Major League Baseball interleague play is back this weekend. I'm home watching TV coverage of the visiting Chicago White Sox clobbering the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds playing the Sox brings back some bad memories for followers of the South Siders, in 1919, the heavily favored White Sox lost to Cincinnati--eight Sox players, the "Black Sox," took bribes from gamblers and threw the series.
Since 1919, the White Sox have only appeared in two World Series, the most recent of which was last year; the Sox spanked the Houston Astros in an historic sweep.
Bad memories are being stirred among Cub fans as well.
On the North Side of Chicago this afternoon, the Cubs hosted the Detroit Tigers. The Cubs last appeared in the Fall Classic in 1945, the Tigers military rejects defeated the Cubs armed forces leftovers four games to three.
During World War II, almost all of the good big leaguers served in the military.
The Cubs lost today, too.
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