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How would you describe the White Socks franchise for people that aren't familiar with it?

Like what's the experience of being a White Socks fan?

We'll be gone. It's like what now? What can fall on our head today?

That's Bob Strunk. He's a retired public defender and he's been rooting for the

Chicago White Socks baseball team for more than 60 years. Since 1959.

From the point of view of a diehard fan, the most important thing to understand about the White Socks

is that they are not the Chicago Cubs. The working class city people were the Socks fans.

Whereas the Cubs fan is some creature that was dropped into the Chicago area that's all happy and

giddy and he had a team actually marketing losing, lovable losers. They'd feel part of some sort of

cult like a save the whales bunch to me. The Cubs play on the north side of Chicago in old time

you wriggly field with its hand-operated scoreboard and Ivy covered outfield walls.

The White Socks play on the south side. Their old stadium, Komiski Park, got demolished in 1991,

which was maybe for the best. Concrete falling, moldy, smelt, they had some silly rock concert

there once where part of the upper deck was inflamed. The place was falling apart for sure.

One of the franchises many low points came in 1976. The White Socks had the worst record

in the American League and their badness was all encompassing. They couldn't hit and their

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