Customer Reviews

Chicago White Sox: 1959 and Beyond (IL) (Images of Baseball)

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If you are a fan of the Sox and lived and died with them during the past 45 years you will enjoy this book. The pictures alone make this book worth the price. It has rekindled several memories of my visits to Comiskey park. The writing does look un-edited and has some rough spots. Overall this book is a great keepsake for Sox fans.

The author included some unique observations about the "obvious" significant games in White Sox history as well as some not so obvious. Book includes a fantastic number of original photos. An "easy read" great reading for any Chisox or baseball fan.

It's got typographical errors. It's good poor sentence structure. It's got mediocre anecdotes about mediocre players. In short, it's a perfect book about the Chicago White Sox. (As a passionate White Sox fan, I get to say things like that!) Long before their current 2005 "season to remember," the Chicago White Sox were unforgettable losers -- the kind of team only a die-hard fan could care about, year after year after year. I am one such fan, and so is the author. He's no John Steinbeck; his prose is pedestrian. But he loves this team and his book is a lovable one for anyone else who feels the same.

What can you say? The photos are great and the writing is insightful! What else could a White Sox fan could want?

Even if you love the White Sox like me, you won't like this book.

As another reviewer wrote "It's got typographical errors. It's got poor sentence structure. The author He's no John Steinbeck; his prose is pedestrian."

Stay away from 1959 and Beyond.

This Arcadia entry should fill a need for book-starved White Sox fans... Unfortunately, the writing lacks any verve and the picture selection seems pretty dull. These are THE best pictures the publisher could come up with ? An amateur effort, at best.