Few people grasped the misery of the Chicago White Sox quite like Art Mahaffey, the best player on the only team in modern history to lose more games in a row. And when the White Sox finally snapped their 21-game losing streak Tuesday night in Oakland, Mahaffey’s spirits soared.
“The White Sox are on a roll!” he said by phone Wednesday morning, from his home in Allentown, Pa. “That’s good for them. What they went through, what we went through, it’s really hard. It’s great that they won.”
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Mahaffey, 86, was the Philadelphia Phillies’ top winner in 1961, the summer they stumbled to 23 consecutive losses. He tied for the National
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