Editing Luke Appling (section)

===Later career===
Appling hit .317 in 1937 as the White Sox finished in third place in the AL. He played in 81 games in 1938, missing much of the season with a broken leg.

In 1940, Appling hit .348 with a career-high 13 [[triple (baseball)|triples]].<ref name=BR/> Although the team finished fourth, they came closer to a league championship than at any point in his career, eight games behind the league champion [[Detroit Tigers]].<ref name=CHW>{{cite web|title=Chicago White Sox Team History & Encyclopedia|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHW/|publisher=[[Baseball-Reference.com]]|access-date=April 7, 2014}}</ref> Appling won another batting title in 1943 with a .328 average and also led the league in OBP that year (.419).<ref name=BR/>

Appling missed the entire 1944 season due to military service in the United States Army, then returned in time to appear in only 18 games the next year.

He hit .309 in 149 games in 1946. Though his seventh and final All-Star Game selection came in 1947 when he hit .306, Appling hit .314 and .301 in 1948 and 1949, respectively.<ref name=BR/> Appling had remained a solid contributor into his forties, but White Sox ownership was dedicated to a youth movement and he retired after the 1950 season.