Chicago White Sox shortstop prospect Colson Montgomery spent almost two weeks in Arizona working on his swing.

On a wet, breezy evening just off Pete Rose Way — with a BetMGM billboard beckoning beyond right field — ballplayers, coaches and fans welcomed a new MLB policy that wipes out bans for disgraced players after they die.

Tim Elko’s first big league hit was a homer. And a decisive one at that. Elko’s three-run shot in the bottom of the sixth inning put the Chicago White Sox ahead to stay.

Something like this is a nice little shot in the arm for the organization,” said chief revenue and marketing officer Brooks Boyer.

The Chicago Cubs and White Sox will renew acquaintances this weekend, and the history of the Crosstown Classic has been a vivid one.

Jackson and the rest of the Black Sox are being reinstated from baseball's lifetime ban list with immediate effect, according to baseball commissioner Rob Manfred. Manfred made the announcement in a Tuesday letter, as first reported by ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr.

Chicago White Sox fans say the hope of Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican will help usher in winning ways on the field, given that the pope, born on the South Side of Chicago, is said to be a Sox fan himself.

Former Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson, who now plays for the Los Angeles Angels, and his wife, Bria, in February sold their seven-bedroom, 3,597-square-foot house in Flossmoor for $855,000 to a local school superintendent.