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quotes[0] = "Random Trivia #1: The Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs first played against each other in the World Series on 1906 with the White Sox winning the series in six games.";

quotes[1] = "Random Trivia #2: Closer Bobby Jenks tied Jim Barrs all-time record of 41 consecutive batters retired.";

quotes[2] = "Random Trivia #3: Bobby Thigpen held the major league record of 57 saves from 1990 to 2008.";

quotes[3] = "Random Trivia #4: In 1994, retired NBA player Michael Jordan played for the Chicago White Sox farm team Birmingham Barons.";

quotes[4] = "Random Trivia #5: Headline editors at the Chicago Tribune sports department immediately began shortening the name from White Stockings to White Sox, and the team officially adopted the shorter name in 1904";

quotes[5] = "Random Trivia #6: In 1951, Minnie Miņoso, a former Negro Leaguer became the first black player to play for the White Sox.";

quotes[6] = "Random Trivia #7: Former Chicago White Sox player Frank Thomas was given the nickname (The Big Hurt) by broadcaster Ken Harrelson.";

quotes[7] = "Random Trivia #8: In 1917, The White Sox finished with a record of 100-54 which is currently still a franchise record for wins and winning percentage";

quotes[8] = "Random Trivia #9: The Chicago White Sox were once formerly known as the Sioux City Cornhuskers in 1894, and St. Paul Saints in 1895 to 1899.";

quotes[9] = "Random Trivia #10: U.S. Cellular Field was previously known as New Comiskey Park and was opened in 1991.  The original Comiskey Park was in use from mid-1910 to 1990.  The original home field in Chicago was called South Side Park.  The previous home field in St. Paul was called Lexington Park.";

quotes[10] = "Random Trivia #11: In 1960, the White Sox became the first team in major sports to put players last names on jerseys.";

quotes[11] = "Random Trivia #12: From 1981 until 1988, the Sox employed a twosome, called Ribbie and Roobarb, as their team mascots.  In the early 1990s the White Sox had a cartoon mascot named Waldo-The White Sox Wolf that advertised the Silver and Black Pack, the team kid's club at the time.  The team's current mascot is called SouthPaw.";

quotes[12] = "Random Trivia #13: The rivals of the Chicago White Sox are the Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Indians.";

quotes[13] = "Random Trivia #14: Before winning the World Series in 2005, the White Sox had not won a World Series since 1906.";

quotes[14] = "Random Trivia #15: In 1980, owners Eddie Einhorn/Jerry Reinsdorf announced a contest for fans to create new uniforms for the White Sox. The winning entry was submitted by a fan where the word (SOX) was written across the front of the jersey, in the same font as a cap, inside of a large blue stripe trimmed with red. The red and blue stripes were also on the sleeves, and the road jerseys were gray to the home whites.";

quotes[15] = "Random Trivia #16: The White Sox are prominently nicknamed the South Siders, Pale Hose, ChiSox, Go-Go Sox, Good guys, and Black Sox.";

quotes[16] = "Random Trivia #17: In 1927, Babe Ruths homerun shot was the first to clear the Comiskey Park 75 feet high right field roof estimating at 520 feet.";

quotes[17] = "Random Trivia #18: In the 1989 feature film Field of Dreams, Ray Kinsella (played by actor Kevin Costner) is instructed to build a baseball field by his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson (played by actor Ray Liotta) and seven other Chicago White Sox players banned for throwing the 1919 World Series.";

quotes[18] = "Random Trivia #17: In 1988, the feature film Eight Men Out focused on the dramatization of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gambers to intentionally lose the World Series.  Actor John Cusack played Buck Weaver and actor D.B. Sweeney played as Shoeless Joe Jackson.";

quotes[19] = "Random Trivia #18: In 1922, Charles Culberston Robertson pitches a perfect game.  The first perfect game recorded for the Chicago White Sox.  In 2009, Mark Buerhle pitches a perfect game.  The second perfect game recorded for the Chicago White Sox.";

quotes[20] = "Random Trivia #19: Ozzie Guillen is the first latin-born manager in the history of the game to have won a World Series.";

quotes[21] = "Random Trivia #20: Shingo Takatsu became the first Japanese player to play for the White Sox in 2004.";


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