with a side of deceptive marketing.  Perhaps you've heard of, or seen the commercial for Wheat Thins in which a Wheat Thins fan posts a twitter comment about Wheat Thins, and receives a pallet load of Wheat Thins in her driveway.  (I guess she can use them to re-shingle her roof).  Well, Teahenny Penny mentioned liking my BACON stat in yesterday's Links column, which means I shall now drop a pallet load of White Sox BACON stats on this website.

For those (most) of you unfamiliar with BACON, it is my attempt to come up with a simple way to measure batting consistency.  The notion is that a player who goes 1 for 4 in four straight games is more helpful than a player who goes 4 for 4 in one game, and then 0 for 4 in the next 3.  Both players have a .250 batting average over that span, but one is more consistent.  So I take total batting average and divide it by batting average in games in which the player got a hit - and then give it the delicious sounding name BACON, for batting consistency.

Below are the career BACON numbers for every White Sox player since 1919 (which is as far back as Retrosheet has the day by day stats to allow me to do this), who had at least 1000 ABs with the team.

Players in italics are those for whom the data is incomplete - they started before 1919, and the number of missing seasons from their career BACON calculation is in parenthesis.

Rank	Batter	BACON	Hits	BACONxH
1	Joe Jackson 1919-1920 (11)	.818	398	325.4
2	Eddie Collins 1919-1926 (13)	.807	1410	1138
3	Al Simmons 1933-1935	.791	532	420.7
4	Happy Felsch 1919-1920 (4)	.789	326	257.3
5	Rip Radcliff 1934-1939	.785	861	675.5
6	Zeke Bonura 1934-1937	.781	664	518.8
7	Gee Walker 1938-1939	.773	309	238.9
8	Mike Kreevich 1935-1941	.771	930	716.9
9	Carl Reynolds 1927-1931	.767	603	462.5
10	Magglio Ordonez 1997-2004	.765	1167	892.6
11	Dick Allen 1972-1974	.764	374	285.9
12	Harry Hooper 1921-1925 (10)	.761	757	576.2
13	Ralph Garr 1976-1979	.759	529	401.7
14	Buck Weaver 1919-1920 (7)	.755	380	287
15	Taffy Wright 1940-1948	.754	834	628.6
16	Minnie Minoso 1951-1976	.754	1525	1149.5
17	Alex Metzler 1927-1930	.750	484	362.9
18	Luke Appling 1930-1950	.749	2749	2059.3
19	Eddie Robinson 1950-1952	.748	472	352.9
20	Evar Swanson 1932-1934	.747	307	229.4
21	Lance Johnson 1988-1995	.746	1018	759.4
22	Nellie Fox 1950-1963	.746	2475	1845.9
23	Frank Thomas 1990-2005	.746	2136	1592.8
24	Earl Sheely 1921-1927	.746	1051	783.7
25	Scott Podsednik 2005-2009	.744	499	371
26	Mike Caruso 1998-1999	.743	292	217.1
27	Albert Belle 1997-1998	.741	374	277.1
28	Dave Martinez 1995-1997	.739	377	278.7
29	Johnny Mostil 1921-1929 (1)	.739	1045	772.3
30	Bibb Falk 1920-1928	.739	1219	900.6
31	Dave Gallagher 1988-1990	.733	286	209.7
32	Bill Barrett 1923-1929	.732	581	425.6
33	Chet Lemon 1975-1981	.729	804	586.2
34	Carlos Lee 1999-2004	.728	957	697
35	Wally Moses 1942-1946	.727	667	484.7
36	Tadahito Iguchi 2005-2007	.726	380	276.1
37	Tony Bernazard 1981-1983	.723	305	220.6
38	Mule Haas 1933-1937	.723	496	358.4
39	Jorge Orta 1972-1979	.721	1002	722.9
40	Ray Durham 1995-2002	.720	1246	897.7
41	Lamar Johnson 1974-1981	.720	671	483.4
42	Ivan Calderon 1986-1993	.720	572	411.9
43	Alexei Ramirez 2008-2010	.720	454	326.9
44	Jermaine Dye 2005-2009	.720	742	534.1
45	Ernie Johnson 1921-1923 (5)	.719	344	247.5
46	Jackie Hayes 1932-1940	.718	820	588.9
47	Johnny Watwood 1929-1932	.718	333	239
48	Harold Baines 1980-2001	.717	1773	1270.7
49	Dave Philley 1941-1957	.716	755	540.4
50	Guy Curtright 1943-1946	.714	294	209.8
51	Jimmie Dykes 1933-1939 (1)	.713	551	393
52	Al Smith 1958-1962	.712	699	497.9
53	A.J. Pierzynski 2005-2010	.712	821	584.7
54	Bill Cissell 1928-1932	.712	541	385.2
55	Aaron Rowand 2001-2005	.712	466	331.6
56	Tim Raines 1991-1995	.711	697	495.6
57	Bill Hunnefield 1926-1930	.710	376	267.1
58	Don Kolloway 1940-1949	.710	708	502.6
59	Bud Clancy 1924-1930	.709	432	306.5
60	Chris Singleton 1999-2001	.709	396	280.8
61	Carlos May 1968-1976	.709	1000	708.8
62	John Kerr 1929-1931	.709	304	215.4
63	Luis Aparicio 1956-1970	.708	1576	1116.3
64	Floyd Robinson 1960-1966	.705	875	617
65	Paul Konerko 1999-2010	.704	1813	1277.1
66	Pat Kelly 1971-1976	.702	648	454.8
67	Tom Paciorek 1982-1985	.699	371	259.2
68	Rudy Law 1982-1985	.697	472	328.8
69	Alan Bannister 1976-1980	.695	383	266.4
70	Ralph Hodgin 1943-1948	.695	471	327.2
71	Ken Henderson 1973-1975	.693	373	258.4
72	Willie Kamm 1923-1931	.692	1136	786.1
73	Mike Hershberger 1961-1971	.691	412	284.8
74	Joe Kuhel 1938-1947	.689	874	602.6
75	Bill Skowron 1964-1966	.689	317	218.6
76	Robin Ventura 1989-1998	.687	1244	854.5
77	Chico Carrasquel 1950-1955	.687	830	569.9
78	Joey Cora 1991-1994	.683	326	222.8
79	Bill Melton 1968-1975	.682	901	614.2
80	Bucky Dent 1973-1976	.681	462	314.6
81	Carlton Fisk 1981-1993	.679	1259	855
82	Walt Williams 1967-1972	.678	481	326.1
83	Don Buford 1963-1967	.678	571	386.9
84	Wayne Nordhagen 1976-1981	.677	344	233
85	Ozzie Guillen 1985-1997	.675	1608	1085.6
86	Jose Valentin 2000-2004	.674	602	405.8
87	Jim Morrison 1979-1982	.673	342	230.2
88	Steve Lyons 1986-1990	.672	351	236
89	Thurman Tucker 1942-1947	.672	441	296.4
90	Greg Walker 1982-1990	.670	741	496.2
91	Luke Sewell 1935-1938	.670	389	260.5
92	Pete Ward 1963-1969	.668	753	503.4
93	Greg Luzinski 1981-1984	.668	496	331.5
94	Eric Soderholm 1977-1979	.667	300	200.2
95	Cass Michaels 1943-1954	.666	705	469.7
96	Duane Josephson 1965-1970	.666	291	193.8
97	Tommie Agee 1965-1967	.664	299	198.7
98	Bubba Phillips 1956-1959	.662	304	201.3
99	Jim Rivera 1952-1960	.658	810	532.9
100	Sherm Lollar 1952-1963	.656	1122	736.2
101	Vance Law 1982-1984	.655	321	210.1
102	Jim Thome 2006-2009	.653	469	306.3
103	Walt Dropo 1955-1958	.649	290	188.3
104	Ken Berry 1962-1970	.649	679	440.7
105	Roy Schalk 1944-1945	.648	256	165.9
106	Jim Landis 1957-1964	.647	892	577
107	Joe Crede 2000-2008	.646	712	459.7
108	Bob Kennedy 1939-1956	.644	615	395.9
109	George Bell 1992-1993	.641	249	159.7
110	Juan Uribe 2004-2008	.640	572	366.3
111	Carlos Quentin 2008-2010	.640	331	211.9
112	Larry Rosenthal 1936-1941	.638	330	210.7
113	Buck Crouse 1923-1930	.637	342	218
114	Ray Schalk 1919-1928 (7)	.637	749	477
115	Harvey McClellan 1919-1924	.633	256	162.2
116	Mike Squires 1975-1984	.630	411	259.1
117	Scott Fletcher 1983-1991	.629	490	308.2
118	Tim Hulett 1983-1987	.625	279	174.4
119	Mike Tresh 1938-1948	.625	780	487.4
120	Skeeter Webb 1940-1944	.619	269	166.4
121	Greg Pryor 1978-1981	.618	287	177.3
122	Tommy McCraw 1963-1970	.617	675	416.6
123	Ron Kittle 1982-1991	.615	517	318.1
124	Floyd Baker 1945-1951	.615	423	260
125	Daryl Boston 1984-1989	.610	323	197.1
126	Brian Downing 1973-1977	.607	309	187.5
127	Ron Hansen 1963-1969	.605	594	359.6
128	Dan Pasqua 1988-1994	.594	451	268.1
129	Buddy Bradford 1966-1976	.594	283	168.1
130	Ed Herrmann 1967-1974	.593	484	286.9
131	Craig Grebeck 1990-1995	.589	273	160.8
132	Jerry Hairston 1973-1989	.575	428	246.1
133	Julio Cruz 1983-1986	.568	267	151.6
134	Ron Karkovice 1986-1997	.562	574	322.7
135	J.C. Martin 1959-1967	.553	338	186.9
136	Ted Lyons 1923-1946	.545	363	198

The post-1919 single season BACON record for the White Sox (500 AB minimum) is held by Frank Thomas, who posted an .867 BACON in 1996. That broke Happy Felsh's 76 year old record of .853, recorded in 1920. And by recorded, I mean retroactively made up last month when I did the math. Disclaimer: Most of the information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet, although the chance remains that I somehow screwed it up between their site and here. I claim no copyright on my mistakes. Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at "www.retrosheet.org".