If your Dad loved the White Sox around the 50's I can understand why Nellie Fox was his favorite player. He was the face of the Sox for many years, always with a very large wad of chewing tobacco in his cheek. He was not very tall or very powerful or very fast, but he was able to get the maximum out of his abilities by hustle and determination. Never seemed to commit an error. Nellie used a bat with a very broad handle and choked up, so he was impossible to strike out and always seems to be the one to get a key single. He and his shortstop teammate Luis Aparicio put the "go" in the "go-go Sox" pennant winner of 1959 to break the Yankee string of pennants. They are both now in the Hall of Fame
Left us much too soon due to cancer.
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