Chicago in the World Series, 1903-2005: The Cubs and White Sox in Championship Play
By Rubenstein, Bruce A.
2006/07 - McFarland & Company
078642575X Find It

When the White Sox met the Astros in the 2005 World Series, it marked only the second time a Chicago team had appeared in a televised World Series. (The first was in 1959 when the White Sox lost to the Dodgers.) Of the other 12 Series involving the Cubs or White Sox, seven occurred before the radio broadcasting of baseball. Five others were broadcast, but because the games were played during the workday, fans continued to get their coverage from newspapers. With a chapter on each World Series involving a Chicago team, this book covers 100 years of championship diamond contests in the Windy City, from the intra-city classic of 1906 to the end of the White Sox's 88-year championship drought in 2005. Contemporary accounts from newspapers and sports publications complement the author's informed commentary, providing two views of the Series: ...More

When Chicago Ruled Baseball: The Cubs-White Sox World Series of 1906
By Weisberger, Bernard A.
2006/05 - William Morrow & Company
0060592273 Find It

Published to coincide with its centennial anniversary, here is an enthralling look at one of the most exciting moments in American sports. ...More

Baseball Chicago Style: A Tale of Two Teams, One City
By Holtzman, Jerome
Vass, George
2005/10 - Bonus Books
1566252334 Find It

For the first time the entire colorful saga of major league baseball in Chicago is wrapped between the covers of a single book sure to appeal to both Cubs and White Sox fans. ...More

Miracle Collapse: The 1969 Chicago Cubs
By Feldmann, Doug
Kessinger, Don
2006/09 - University of Nebraska Press
080322026X Find It

Civil unrest at home, war abroad, and political uncertainty gripped the nation as the 1970s approached. In the summer of 1969, as a tumultuous decade of American history neared its end, Major League Baseball presented sports fans with a thrilling distraction: a pennant race that pitted the Chicago Cubs, those much-loved perennial also-rans, against the defending National League champs, the St. Louis Cardinals, and the upstart New York Mets. "Miracle Collapse" is the story of how one of the most talented Cubs teams ever to take the field--with Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams, and ace pitcher Ferguson Jenkins among their ranks and led by the irascible manager Leo Durocher--raced to an early division lead and a seemingly certain pennant, only to unravel spectacularly at the season's end. ...More

Cubs Essential: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Real Fan!
By Freedman, Lew
2006/03 - Triumph Books
1572438169 Find It

Packed with history, anecdotes, special moments, unforgettable figures, trivia, special lists and much more, this book is created to give Cubs fans an easy-to-read and completely inclusive reference book that will help them become the ultimate fan. ...More

Cubs Nation: 162 Games. 162 Stories. 1 Addiction.
By Wojciechowski, Gene
2005/03 - Doubleday Books
0385513003 Find It

From Ernie Banks, the legendary "Mr. Cub," to Sammy Sosa, today's record-setting sensation, "Cubs Nation" traces the history of a team that often had everything going for it and yet was so hampered by losses that it came to define the term "lovable losers." ...More

Few and Chosen: Cubs
By Santo, Ron
Pepe, Phil
Banks, Ernie
2005/03 - Triumph Books
1572437103 Find It

Chicago Cubs legend Ron Santo lists the five greatest players at every position around the diamond. "Few and Chosen: Cubs" brings together in words and photos the greatest players to ever play for one of the greatest franchises in all of sports. Archival photos. ...More

Wrigley Field: A Celebration of the Friendly Confines
By Green, Stephen
Jacob, Mark
Banks, Ernie
2002/10 - McGraw-Hill Companies
0071385630 Find It

"The park is one of the wonders of the world, like the Taj Mahal and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon."
--Ernie Banks, from the Foreword

To Cubs fans, Wrigley Field is many things: a museum and a hot dog stand; a day at the beach and a night in the rain; a national monument and a neighborhood hangout; a circus and a timeless "edifice of beauty." Simply put, it is a delightful contradiction. Shoehorned into a city showered by sleet and battered by winds, Wrigley Field is an oasis, a refuge from the demands of the workweek, where homework doesn't exist and you can boo, scream, heckle, groan, high-five a complete stranger, eat popcorn, and drink beer--until the balmy days of summer give way to the chill of autumn.

Through glorious photography and evocative essays, this unique pictorial tribute pays homage to the Friendly Confines ...More

Banks to Sandberg to Grace
By Muskat, Carrie
Verdi, Bob
2001/03 - McGraw-Hill Companies
0809297124 Find It

The Chicago Cubs are one of the most beloved teams in all of sports, though not for their success on the baseball field. The post-World War II years have been especially rough for the Cubs: they have been without a pennant since 1945--longer than any team in the major leagues. "Banks to Sandberg to Grace" takes the reader on a nostalgic journey through the triumphs (few), the heartaches (many), and the lighter moments, as told by those who were actually there--on the field, in the front office, or behind the scenes. Each storyteller shares his or her personal, revealing account of what it was like to play or work for the Chicago Cubs. Hank Sauer laughs about fans in the bleachers throwing tobacco at him. The team's longtime equipment manager, Yosh Kawano, talks about gaining the trust and friendship of players like Ryne Sandberg. And WGN- ...More

Sox and the City: A Fan's Love Affair with the White Sox from the Heartbreak of '67 to the Wizards of Oz
By Roeper, Richard
2006/09 - Chicago Review Press
1556526504 Find It

Over the last 40 years, Richard Roeper has attended White Sox games, watching as his team established a losing streak that was almost unparalleled in major league baseball history. In this account of what it was like to grow up a White Sox fan in a Cubs nation, Roeper covers the recent history of the organization, from the heartbreak of 1967 and the South-Side Hit Men to the disco demolition and the magical 2005 season when they became world champions. Encapsulating what it means to be a baseball fan, root for the same sorry team no matter what, and find vindication, this history of the White Sox is flavored with trivia; anecdotes about players, owners, and broadcasters; plus Roeper's own humorous and personal reminiscences.
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Say It's So: The Chicago White Sox's Magical Season
By Rogers, Phil
2006/03 - Triumph Books
1572438703 Find It

Asked why he would give up three of his top minor-league prospects for pitcher Freddy Garcia, Ken Williams answered with two numbers--nineteen-seventeen. The White Sox general manager wasn't referring to the score of that day's game against the Cubs, but rather to the last year in which the White Sox had won the World Series. Heck, this was an organization that had thrown one since it last won one, making its stamp on baseball history with the 1919 "Black Sox" gambling scandal. The White Sox had been back to the World Series only once since then, with the Go-Go Sox losing in 1959. This was the history that Williams and his manager, Ozzie Guillen, a fan favorite from his playing days, were trying to change. They rebuilt their roster--looking for more pitching, speed, and better fielding after years of trying to bully the opposition--and ca ...More

Ron Kittle's Tales from the White Sox Dugout
By Kittle, Ron
Logan, Bob
2005/03 - Sports Publishing
1582615438 Find It

Former Rookie of the Year Kittle tells unique, never-before-told stories about the 1983 American League West champion Chicago White Sox and how they went about "Winning Ugly." ...More

Shoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson
By Fleitz, David L.
2008/01 - McFarland & Company
0786433124 Find It

"Shoeless" Joe Jackson was one of baseball's greatest hitters and most colorful players. Born Joseph Jefferson Wofford Jackson on July 16, 1888, in Pickens County, South Carolina, Jackson went to work in a textile mill when he was around six years old, and got his start in baseball playing for the Brandon Mill team at the age of 13 earning $2.50 a game. He emerged as the star of the team and a favorite of fans with his hitting and throwing abilities, and moved up to play in the Carolina Association, where he received his nickname "Shoeless" because the blisters on his feet forced him to play in his stockings. He then made his move to the major leagues, signing on with the Philadelphia Athletics and rising to fame. This work chronicles Jackson's life from his poor beginnings to his involvement in the scandal surrounding the 1919 World Seri ...More

59: Summer of the Sox: The Year the World Series Come to Chicago
By Vanderberg, Bob
1999/05 - Sports Publishing
1582610363 Find It

The 1999 season marked the 40th anniversary of the Go-Go Sox, the only American League team besides the New York Yankees to play in the Fall Classic during the period from 1955 to 1964. Summer of the Sox describes the '59 season, month by month, from Nellie Fox's game-winning home run in the 14th inning on opening day to Chicago's pennant-clinching victory on September 22 against second-place Cleveland. Included are fascinating sketches of all of the team's key contributors, including Hall of Famers Fox, Early Wynn, and Luis Aparicio. ...More

Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
By Asinof, Eliot
2000/05 - Owl Books (NY)
0805065377 Find It

"As Jackson departed from the Grand Jury room, a small boy clutched at his sleeve and tagged along after him. 'Say it ain't so, Joe, ' he pleaded. 'Say it ain't so.'"

But to the horror of the entire nation -- it was. The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as "the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America!" In this timeless classic, Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire story of the infamous scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation's leading gamblers to throw the Series to Cincinnati. Scene by scene, he vividly describes the tense meetings, the hitches in the conniving, the actual plays in which the Series was thrown, the Grand Jury indictment, and the famous 1921 trial. ...More