On this day 79 years ago, Ed Walsh was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. | Buyenlarge/Getty Images
Ed Walsh gets the call to the Hall
1901
It wasn’t planned this way, but three games in other cities were postponed by rain, putting the White Sox in position to host the first major league game in American League history. Some 9,000 fans at South Side Park — or maybe it was 14,000, reports conflict — saw the home club beat the Cleveland Blues, 8-2. The White Sox scored five times in the first inning, and ran the score
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