| 1983 Chicago White Sox | ||
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| American League West Champions | ||
| League | American League | |
| Division | West | |
| Ballpark | Comiskey Park | |
| City | Chicago | |
| Record | 99–63 (.611) | |
| Divisional place | 1st | |
| Owners | Jerry Reinsdorf | |
| General managers | Roland Hemond | |
| Managers | Tony La Russa | |
| Television | WFLD–TV 32 (Don Drysdale, Ken Harrelson) SportsVision (Don Drysdale, Early Wynn, Ken Harrelson, Joe McConnell, Ken Wilson) | |
| Radio | WMAQ–AM 670 (Don Drysdale, Early Wynn, Ken Harrelson, Joe McConnell, Lorn Brown) | |
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The 1983 Chicago White Sox season was a season in American baseball. It involved the White Sox winning the American League West championship on September 17. It marked their first postseason appearance since the 1959 World Series. It was the city of Chicago's first baseball championship of any kind (division, league, or world), since the White Sox themselves reached the World Series twenty-four years earlier.
After the White Sox went through a winning streak around the All-Star break, Texas Rangers manager Doug Rader said the White Sox "...weren't playing well. They're winning ugly."[1] This phrase became a rallying cry for the team, and they are often referred to as the "winning ugly" team (and their uniforms as the "winning ugly" uniforms).