White Sox fever has Catholic school children dancing in the street

Published: 2005-10-17

VALPARAISO, Ind. (CNS) -- This has been a memorable season for Chicago White Sox fans like Lynn MacLean. The second-grade teacher at St. Paul School has indoctrinated her class in the fun art of baseball as practiced on Chicago's South Side. On Oct. 14, two days before the White Sox baseball team won the American League Championship Series over the Los Angeles Angels, MacLean's class was decked out for the Sox. MacLean, a die-hard Sox fan whose love of the game and that team goes back to her grandmother, has a Sox teddy bear and a 1959 Sox World Series shirt on her chair. A display includes a box score and updated statistics on the Sox during the playoffs. When the Sox win, the teacher has promised, there's no homework the next day. MacLean also made the promise that her class could go dancing in the street if the Sox won in the playoffs. The Sox did, and so did the classroom. MacLean's class assembled in the street in front of school Oct. 14 and, with supervision, danced, yelled, got drivers to honk their horns and sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame."

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