Besides today's parade in downtown Chicago to honor the Chicago Blackhawks' Stanley Cup victory, we have another really fun time getting underway and that is the beginning of the annual Crosstown Series for city bragging rights between the White Sox and Cubs.
The interleague play between American and National is one of the greatest ideas MLB has come up with in many years. Before this, the teams often played a single exhibition game that wasn't much fun as they would bring up mostly minor leaguers to play. There was not much satisfaction in, "Our minor leaguers can beat your minor leaguers."Since inception in 1887, the two teams play a three-and-three series at each others' ballparks: three at Wrigley and three at Comiskey (I don't call it that other name).
Overall, the Sox have won 37 and Cubs 34 so it is almost evenly split. However, the Cubs swept the series in '98, 04, '07 and '09. The Sox swept in '99 and '08.
The very first game between the two teams was in 1903.
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I Wonder: If corn oil is made from corn and vegetable oil from vegetables, then, what is baby oil made from?
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