On Sunday afternoon, when the Texas Rangers visit Guaranteed Rate Field, Alice Williams, 64, of Crestwood, will settle into her seat in Section 118 as she attends her 302nd consecutive White Sox home game.

“I’ve made a lot of friends here at the ballpark,” Williams told me Wednesday night as the Sox hosted the New York Yankees. “It’s a nice atmosphere.”

Williams’ streak of home-game attendance began in 2013. But her mark of 300 is fewer than half as many as her daughter, Laura Williams, 38, of Oak Forest, who on June 23 attended her 700th consecutive White Sox home game.

“It’s like a family,” Laura Williams said from her seat next to her mother. “A lot of friends from school know we’re here and stop by.”

Laura Williams’ streak began Aug. 13, 2008. While the stretch includes Mark Buehrle’s perfect game in 2009, the Sox haven’t made the playoffs since 2008 and haven’t finished a season with a winning record since 2012.

Through Thursday, the White Sox had a record of 324-402 since the beginning of the 2013 season.

I asked the mother-and-daughter team of season ticket holders what keeps them coming back to every home game.

“You see so many talented players come through,” Alice Williams said. They were excited to see Aaron Judge, the 6-foot-7 rookie right fielder for the Yankees who is among league leaders in batting average, home runs and RBI.

We watched as Judge signed several autographs for fans near the first-base dugout before the start of Wednesday’s game.

Laura Williams said she gets excited about opportunities to meet current and former players. On Tuesday night, she and about 100 other fans were invited to a “chalk talk” before the game with Hall of Fame slugger Frank Thomas.

“I’ve idolized him since I grew up,” she said.

She recalled a recent encounter with third baseman Todd Frazier. Laura Williams saw him signing autographs for kids and approached to see if she could take a selfie with him.

“My hand was shaking,” she said. “He took my phone and took the picture.”

She sometimes gets star-struck when she meets famous players, like Buehrle.

“She doesn’t know what to say,” said her sister, Carrie Williams, 32, of Crestwood. “You can tell she’s a big fan.”

Carrie Williams, who works for Tribune Content Agency, attends many games with her sister and mother, though she doesn’t share the streak of home-game attendance.

“It’s too much for me,” Carrie Williams said. “I don’t know how they go to 81 games a year.”

She prefers to travel and said she has visited 15 of Major League Baseball’s 30 ballparks.

Alice Williams told me she and Laura like to spend their entertainment dollars at the White Sox ballpark.

“Some people save money to go on vacation. We come here,” she said.

Laura and Alice Williams said it hasn’t been too difficult making it to each of the White Sox’s 81 home games for the past several seasons. Most Sox games are at night, so they don’t conflict with their full-time work schedules.

Laura Williams is a medical technologist at Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital near Maywood. Alice Williams is a systems analyst at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey.

“Sometimes, like this 10-game homestand, it’s hard rushing home after work, getting changed and getting here,” Alice Williams said. She usually picks up her daughter and drives to the games, while Laura Williams pays for parking.

Laura Williams said she thought about ending her streak at 591 games when the 2015 season ended. But her sister urged her to at least make it to 600, so they bought single-game tickets to start off the 2016 season.

Carrie Williams said she contacted the White Sox about acknowledging the streak with a scoreboard message, and the team responded with unexpected generosity.

Then-outfielder Adam Eaton presented Laura Williams with a jersey imprinted with the number 600, and the team gave Laura and Alice Williams tickets for the rest of the 2016 season.

“We bought season tickets this year,” Laura Williams said. “It wasn’t season tickets for life or anything.”

They’ve moved their seats over the years. They’ve now settled in a spot under an overhang — out of the sun and rain — but still with a clear view of all the action, 33 rows up from the field.

“Most games, this row is empty except for them, so I can buy a ticket next to them,” Carrie Williams said. “This is the last section before ticket prices go up.”

A Money magazine report in late March found the White Sox had the most affordable tickets among MLB teams for 2017, with an average retail sales price of $30.26. The Chicago Cubs had the most expensive average ticket at $150.63.

Laura Williams said she used to watch some Cubs games on TV when she was a kid but has favored the White Sox since she went to her first game at the old Comiskey Park in the 1980s. She thinks the South Side ballpark has many advantages over Wrigley Field.

“It’s so much easier to get here,” she said. “The food is better. You can tailgate.”

When Laura Williams began her streak in 2008, the White Sox drew more than 2.5 million fans for an average attendance of 30,496, according to Baseball Reference. Attendance has slipped to about 1.7 million for each of the past four seasons, averaging about 21,000 per game.

Cubs attendance has ranged from a high of 3.3 million to a low of 2.6 million over the past decade. Average attendance for that period bottomed out at 32,626 in 2013.

“(The White Sox) have always been (Chicago’s) second team,” Alice Williams said.

Laura Williams said she first bought White Sox season tickets in 2005 when a team promotion guaranteed World Series tickets if the club made it to the Fall Classic. The Sox, of course, appeared in the Series that year for the first time since 1959.

Laura Williams had tickets to Game 6 and Game 7, but the Sox swept the Houston Astros in four games.

She was back for 2006 and subsequent seasons but missed a few games due to illness. She was diagnosed as an infant with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that causes persistent lung infections.

“I get sick pretty easily. I take antibiotics,” Laura Williams said. “I don’t have the most severe case. I’ve been really lucky.”

Laura Williams said that despite the diagnoses, her mother allowed her to play 16-inch softball as a youth. She was cautioned to take it easy on the basepaths and avoid exerting herself too much while running.

“I was a pitcher. Pitchers aren’t supposed to hit,” Laura Williams said. “My nickname when I played softball was Little Hurt,” a nod to Thomas’ Big Hurt moniker.

While attending Mother McAuley High School in Chicago’s Mount Greenwood neighborhood and later earning a degree from Loyola University, Laura Williams said she worked at Baseball Dreams & Memories, a memorabilia shop at 5435 135th St. in Crestwood.

As a diehard Sox fan, she’d sometimes buy items before the shop owner could even put them on display. One of her cherished pieces is a ball signed by all but three members of the 2005 World Series championship team.

Alice and Laura Williams said they typically don’t spend a lot of money at the ballpark. Occasionally they’ll buy beers or vodka lemonades. Laura Williams said she likes Italian beef sandwiches and lemon chills. Alice Williams said she prefers the cold turkey sandwich on marble rye.

I asked if they ever felt like they missed out on other things by being at so many games: concerts, TV shows or other events.

“Not really,” Laura Williams said. “I DVR shows.”

“We get together with friends just as much as other people when the Sox are on the road,” Alice Williams said.

When Laura Williams began her streak in 2008, she was sure she’d miss at least one home game. Four of her friends got married that summer, but all the weddings took place when the Sox were on the road.

“Miraculously not one of them happened during a home game,” Laura Williams said.

The sisters’ longtime boyfriends occasionally come to games. Carrie Williams is engaged and planning a December wedding.

“He’s a Cubs fan,” Laura Williams said of her sister’s fiance.

While their streaks are impressive, I found media accounts of other superfans with even longer streaks. Last year, the Austin American-Statesman profiled Scott Wilson, an attorney who at the time had attended 1,039 consecutive Texas Rangers home games.

In 2013, according to court documents and several media accounts, Joseph Neubauer lost his job with the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission for taking an unexcused day off to keep alive his 38-year streak of attendance at Yankees games. He skipped work to attend a makeup day game after the previous night’s contest was rained out.

The Williams family doesn’t expect to shatter any superfan records, but the women do plan to continue coming to White Sox games.

“Our motto is we take one game at a time and live life to the fullest,” Alice Williams said.

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