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It's hard to believe that 20 years ago, the Chicago White Sox were the championship team, beating Houston Astros in four games to win the
World's Series.

Bobby Jenks was a big guy for a closing pitcher, 275 pounds. Started his
Major League career on another team but was injured and a self-destructive drunk. The White Sox claimed him off waivers in 2004, put him on their
Double-A farm team, then called him up mid-season 2005 and Jenks and the
White Sox thrived together during an amazingly productive period.

Jenks could throw 100 mph fastballs and an unhittable curve ball. He
pitched in each of those four World Series games versus the Astros.

In 2007 he set an American league record of retiring 41 batters in a
row as a closing pitcher.

He played for the Red Sox, then in 2011 had disastrous surgery involving
his spinal column that led to an infection nearly killing him. After the malpractice was apparent, he learned that the surgeon was concurrently operating on a paralyzed man who also received an unacceptable level of
care. Jenks said later had he known, he'd have scheduled his surgery
elsewhere.

The botched surgery forced his retirement.

Earlier in 2025, he was diagnosed with a type of stomach cancer from
which he died 7/4/2025.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2025/07/05/bobby-jenks-dies-obituary-white-sox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jenks
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