Today in White Sox History: August 25, 1913 and the purchase that launched Red Faber’s Hall of Fame career
On August 25, 1913, Chicago’s American League club made a deal built on potential, buying the contract of pitcher Urban “Red” Faber from Des Moines for $3,500. The move would ripple into one of the franchise’s most productive pitching careers, highlighted by dominant postseason work in 1917.








