Chicagoland DUers: why are the White Sox wearing red?

[Bertha Venation]

Their sox, lettering and numbering, undershirts, catcher's gear and caps are red. Why? Did they change their colors without asking me?!

[pinboy3niner]

1. They're 'throwback' uniforms from the '70s

White Sox to wear 1972 unis Sundays at home

CHICAGO -- Fans of the late Chuck Tanner's 1972 White Sox squad, featuring Dick Allen, Bill Melton and Wilbur Wood, to name a few, will get a 40-year memory jog this year on Sundays at U.S. Cellular Field when the 2012 team wears uniforms similar to those that group wore.

The uniforms will feature the red pinstriped jersey with the iconic "Sox" script over the chest, red numbers (front and back) and a White Sox patch on the sleeve, along with the popular red cap with its unique variation of the Sox script. The White Sox will wear the throwback uniforms on 13 Sundays this season, starting with April 15 vs. Detroit.

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http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120125&content_id=26464882&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb

[Bertha Venation]

2. Thanks. I have to ask:

Are you a Sox fan, or did you use Google, which for some reason didn't occur to me?

[pinboy3niner]

4. I remembered seeing stories about this

So I googled to find one of them. Not a baseball fan, though my dad was a Sox fan and long ago you could see the lights flash at Comiskey from my grandfather's stoop in Bridgeport when the Sox scored.

[Curtland1015]

3. Chicagoland DUers: GIVE BACK KEVIN YOUKILIS!