<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (August 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (August 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team based on the South Side of Chicago . They are one of eight charter members of the American League, having played in Chicago since the inaugural 1901 season . They have won six American League pennants and three World Series titles, most recently in 2005 . Despite long periods of mediocrity, the White Sox have among the most unusual, challenging, and celebrated histories of any Major League franchise . </P> <P> The team began as the minor league Sioux City Cornhuskers and played in the Western League . The WL reorganized itself in November 1893, with Ban Johnson as President . Johnson, a Cincinnati - based reporter, had been recommended by his friend Charles Comiskey, former major league star with the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s, who was then managing the Cincinnati Reds . After the 1894 season, when Comiskey's contract with the Reds was up, he decided to take his chances at ownership . He bought the Sioux City team and transferred it to Saint Paul, Minnesota, where it enjoyed some success over the next five seasons . </P>

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