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Comiskey park's last world series : a history of the 1959 Chicago White Sox / Charles N. Billington.
LIBRA GV875.C58 B55 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Billington, Charles N., 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chicago White Sox (Baseball team).
- Comiskey Park (Chicago, Ill.).
- World Series (Baseball) (1959).
- World Series (Baseball).
- Comiskey Park (Chicago, Ill.)--History.
- Baseball--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Baseball.
- History.
- Chicago (Ill.)--History.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
- Summary:
- The White Sox are one of the few teams of the power hitting-focused modern era to win a pennant with speed, pitching and defense. In focusing on the 1959 Chicago White Sox, Billington covers the team from a range of perspectives. He examines the club's historical importance to Chicago and the significance of the '59 "South Side Series"-- the first in 40 years. Many behind-the-scenes details are discussed, from the refined media markets of Golden Age baseball to the team's ancillary sources of revenue, to the bitter legal feud between Charles Comiskey and Bill Veeck. -- adapted from back cover
- Contents:
- Introduction
- February: See you in court
- March: "My kingdom... what has become of my kingdom?"
- April: Play ball, but try to play nice
- May: Win some, lose some
- June: Treading water
- July: We might have something here
- August: The South Side rises again
- September: Forty years, but worth the wait
- October: Bridgeport in the spotlight
- October: Let the games begin
- The sadness of fleeting success.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1476676852
- 9781476676852
- OCLC:
- 1049781118
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