{"id":10735,"date":"2016-08-25T08:09:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T14:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=10735"},"modified":"2016-08-25T19:46:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T01:46:50","slug":"71-george-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/71-george-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"#71 &#8211; George Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/71-george-bell\/baseball-chicago-white-sox-george-bell\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10777\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gbell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gbell.jpg 446w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gbell-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong>\u00a0George Bell<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rank:<\/strong>\u00a071<\/p>\n<p><strong>Position:<\/strong>\u00a0DH<\/p>\n<p><strong>Years With White Sox:<\/strong>\u00a01992-1993<\/p>\n<p>George Bell came to the White Sox following the 1991 season in a trade with the Cubs for Sammy Sosa and Ken Patterson. \u00a0Bell posted a steady, if unspectacular, season for the White Sox in 1991, finishing the year with 25 home runs and a .255 average, driving in 112.<\/p>\n<p>Things started to go south for Bell in 1993, as a knee injury limited his effectiveness and his playing time. \u00a0Splitting time at DH with Bo Jackson, Bell appeared in only 102 games, with only 13 home runs and a career low .217 average. \u00a0Despite the White Sox facing Bell&#8217;s former team, the Blue Jays, in the ALCS, Bell did not make an appearance. \u00a0He was released following the season and quickly announced his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Bell\u2019s\u00a0numbers in a White Sox uniform were:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<caption><b>Career Batting<\/b><\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">BA<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">At Bats<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Runs<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Hits<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">RBI<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Walks<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Strike Outs<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Doubles<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Triples<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">HR<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">SB<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">GIDP<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Errors<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Games<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">0.240<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">1037<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">110<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">249<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">176<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">44<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">146<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">44<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">2<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">38<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">6<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">43<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">1<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">257<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<tfoot><\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name:\u00a0George Bell Rank:\u00a071 Position:\u00a0DH Years With White Sox:\u00a01992-1993 George Bell came to the White Sox following the 1991 season in a trade with the Cubs for Sammy Sosa and Ken Patterson. \u00a0Bell posted a steady, if unspectacular, season for the White Sox in 1991, finishing the year with 25 home runs and a .255 average, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2790,119,2825,120,2213,2212,397,49],"class_list":["post-10735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-alcs","tag-blue-jays","tag-bo-jackson","tag-cubs","tag-george-bell","tag-ken-patterson","tag-sammy-sosa","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10735"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10780,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10735\/revisions\/10780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}