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Paul Sullivan: Selling fans on the White Sox in 2019 will be no easy task

When the White Sox began their final three home games against the Indians, they ranked 24th in the majors with an average attendance of 20,103 per game.

Thanks to a pair of weekend sellouts against the Cubs, their first two of the season, they'll finish in the same vicinity as 2017, when the Sox ranked 27th at 20,626 per game.

That's only about 500 fewer fans per game, which is amazing when you think about it.

The Sox were coming off a 95-loss season in '17

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