CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 As the White Sox were slugging their way to a 22-1 victory over the Royals on Friday night, former player Ron Kittle was getting married in a ballpark suite with Chicago chairman Jerry Reinsdorf officiating.<\/p>\n
Kittle tied the knot with his girlfriend, Barbara, in Reinsdorf\u2019s suite during Chicago\u2019s 10-run third inning. The White Sox went on to score their most runs since a 22-13 victory at Boston on May 31, 1970.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s so superstitious he might marry somebody today in the bottom of the third,\u201d Kittle, the 1983 AL Rookie of the Year, said Saturday about Reinsdorf.<\/p>\n
Harold Baines and Greg Walker, Kittle\u2019s teammates on the 1983 White Sox squad, and their spouses also attended the quick ceremony.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy better half doesn\u2019t want any notoriety, recognition. She wants to keep it to herself,\u201d Kittle said. \u201cBut I invited Harold Baines and his wife and Greg Walker and his wife, and we did it and I was pretty excited. I think Jerry is excited. We\u2019ve become a family over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 1983 White Sox, who won the AL West, were honored before Saturday\u2019s game between Chicago and Kansas City.<\/p>\n
Kittle said he also is ordained and that he officiated a wedding in the outfield last season on Bill Veeck Day.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow I\u2019m the only player to marry someone at the park and get married at the park,\u201d Kittle said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other members of the 1983 team who attended the pregame reunion at Rate Field were Hall of Famer Tony La Russa, who serves as a White Sox special adviser, Richard Dotson and Greg Luzinski.<\/p>\n
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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n
Sarah Trotto, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 As the White Sox were slugging their way to a 22-1 victory over the Royals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-765677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}