"1910 It was a noteworthy publicity stunt. With the White Sox in Washington, D.C., catcher Billy Sullivan caught a ball tossed off of the top of the Washington Monument from pitcher Ed Walsh. Sullivan caught three balls in 11 attempts, with each ball whistling down 555 feet at faster than 100 mph. Two months later, Sullivan opted out of a challenge to catch a baseball tossed from an airplane flying at a thousand feet."
"On this day, a 4-1 victory over the Yankees ran Chicago's winning streak to a season-high 10 games, landing the team at 72-39 - on pace to sneak ahead of 1917 as the best-ever Sox club. The win kept the future Black Sox six games on top of the American League, and while that lead would melt to 3 1⁄2 by season's end, this hot streak essentially assured the Pale Hose a second pennant in three seasons."
In 1910 catcher Billy Sullivan caught three balls dropped from the top of the Washington Monument, each falling 555 feet and exceeding 100 mph, then refused an airplane challenge. In 1919 the White Sox compiled an 88-52 record and produced a season-high 10-game streak that put them atop the American League and nearly secured a pennant, ultimately contributing to a second pennant in three seasons. In 1985 George Bell hit a massive roof-clearing home run off Tom Seaver as the Blue Jays overwhelmed the Sox, who later responded with three ninth-inning solo homers. A.J. Pierzynski relied on mental tactics to unsettle opponents.
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