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Much of the White Sox history is underscored by its sometimes grim tug-of-war with the Cubs for the loyalties of Chicago fans. Even though the Sox earned bragging rights by soundly thrashing their cross-town rivals in a celebrated World Series, the annual post-season City Series, and any number of charity games that followed, the White Sox emerged as the classic underdog following the epochal Black Sox Scandal of 1920. The conspiracy to throw the 1919 World Series was a defining moment in baseball -- and for the fortunes of the beloved Chicago institution in the coming decades.
Much of the White Sox history is underscored by its sometimes grim tug-of-war with the Cubs for the loyalties of Chicago fans. Even though the Sox earned bragging rights by soundly thrashing their cross-town rivals in a celebrated World Series, the annual post-season City Series, and any number of charity games that followed, the White Sox emerged as the classic underdog following the epochal Black Sox Scandal of 1920. The conspiracy to throw the 1919 World Series was a defining moment in baseball -- and for the fortunes of the beloved Chicago institution in the coming decades.
The White Sox Encyclopedia is a comprehensive history of one of the more controversial teams in the American league -- the trials, tribulations and moments of glory of a ballclub interwoven into the fabric of the South Side Irish community that supported it through years of crowning glory, the disgrace of the devastating scandal, and the long, losing seasons that were to follow.
This book brings together, for the first time, 10 decades of baseball on the South Side and will be a wealth of information for White Sox fans, sports mavens, and trivia buffs alike. It includes:
- 700 illustrations, including a 16-page color section
- complete statistics through the 1996 season on hitting streaks and ERA's, box scores, trades, an all-time roster of managers, players and position leaders
- season-by-season descriptions
- game highlights
- over 100 player profiles from Tommie Agee to Richie Zisk and all the great stars past and present
- the managerial strategies, the personalities, honors, and the milestones
- descriptions of unforgettable moments and memories
- The City Series, by Alex Williams
- an immense treasure trove of little-known facts and surprising anecdotes
From the Publisher
An "A to Z" reference of the South Side team that has long been neglected by chroniclers of the National Pastime
Philadelphia Book Clinic Certificate of Award
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- Chicago White Sox: 1959 and Beyond (IL) (Images of Baseball) by Dan Helpingstine in Front Matter
- The Armchair Companion to Chicago Sports by Richard C. Lindberg in Back Matter
- Return to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago by Richard Lindberg in Front Matter
- Through Hope and Despair: A Fan's Memories of the Chicago White Sox 1967-1997 by Dan Helpingstine in Back Matter
- I Remember Harry Caray by Rich Wolfe on page 219
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