Sox postseason run has instilled pride in the South Side
The Chicago White Sox's recent postseason performance has fostered a sense of pride and hope among residents of the city's South Side.
Sometimes baseball has no idea of the power it can wield. How it can ofttimes, depending on the circumstances that surround it, transcend a loss or a win, even one 21 years in the making.“Sport has the power to change the world,” Nelson Mandela once said. “Sport can create hope where there was once only despair.”Welcome to October. Welcome to the South Side, where despair has finally come to die.Two seasons ago, the White Sox represented the bottomless and bottom-feeding “pit” of major-league…
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