(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 1904 1920 1906 1917 1981 2005 White Stockings to Shortened Nickname White Sox Headline editors at the Chicago Tribune sports department immediately began shortening the name to “White Sox”, and the team officially adopted the shorter name in 1904. The name change to the White Sox was brought on after scorekeeper Christoph Hynes wrote White …