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The Year of the Capper

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By Jill Ewert

Posted
May 06, 2009

Southsiders of Chicago will never forget the summer of 2005. It was a season that brought glory to the Windy City as their beloved White Sox crushed the Houston Astros in a World Series sweep.

Fans cheered, brooms were raised, and confetti rained down on LaSalle Street in grand celebration.

Four hundred miles away in Pittsburgh, the silence was deafening.