Today in White Sox History: December 27

Dec 28 2022 by South Side Sox

 
Arguably, there was no one who rocked the late-1980s curly-C White Sox uniforms better than Iván Calderón. | Ron Vesely/Getty Images

Farewell to a light in the late-1980s darkness

2003

In a case that remains unsolved to this day, White Sox outfielder Iván Calderón was murdered in a bar in his hometown of Loiza, Puerto Rico, dead at age 41.

Calderón was the best straight-up deal made during Ken Harrelson’s yearlong GM tenure, snatched from Seattle for Scott Bradley in midseason...

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