(N)opening Day-- Part 3: White Sox Season Openers-- Gullem to Buehrle to Thome

CHICAGO WHITE SOX

APRIL 9, 1990--  The final opening day at the old Comiskey Park. The Sox win 2-1 over the Brewers.  Ozzie Guillen tripled and scored the Sox first run on a wild pitch.  Sammy Sosa score the winning run in the seventh and Bobby Thigpen recorded the final two outs for the first of his then-record 57 saves.

How's this for some famous Sox names?

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APRIL 4, 2005--  Mark Buehrle, making his fourth of his team-record opening-day starts, allowed two hits in the Sox 1-0 victory.  Of course, this was the famous 2005 season when the Sox were in first, a position they never lost that year en route to their first World Series title since 1917.

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APRIL 2, 2006--  The White Sox raised their World Series Championship banners.  After a 4th inning 2 hour and 57 minute rain delay, newcomer Jim Thome hit a 431-foot homer into the right field stands as the Sox won 10-4 over the Indians.

Next, Da Cubs.  --CootSox