About this ebook
Contents
Introduction by Stuart Shea
Sputtering Towards Respectability: Chicago’s Journey to the Big Leagues by Brian McKenna
The Windy City – Collar City Connection:The Curious Relationship of Chicago’s and Troy (NY)’s Professional Baseball Teams (1870–82) by Jeff Laing
Mike González:The First Hispanic Cub by Lou Hernández
Bibb Falk: The Only Jockey in the Majors by Matthew M. Clifford
Ted Lyons: 300 Wins—Closer with a Closer? by Herm Krabbenhoft
Mel Almada: The First Hispanic to Homer at Several Historic American League Stadia by Lou Hernández
Andy Pafko: Darling of the 1945 Cubs by Joe Niese
Bill Murray’s Prediction by Rob Edelman
The Top 10 Chicago White Sox Games of the 1950s by Stephen D. Boren
Mr. Cub by Joseph Wancho
How Good Was the White Sox’ Pitching in the 1960s? by Brendan Bingham
The ’67 White Sox: “Hitless” Destiny’s Grandchild? by Bryan Soderholm-Difatte
The Chicago White Sox, 1968–70: Three Years in Hell by Sam Pathy
Black Sox on Film by Rob Edelman
If Gil Hodges Managed the Cubs and Leo Durocher the Mets in 1969, Whose “Miracle” Would it Have Been? by Mort Zachter
Split Season 1981, Chicago Style by Jeff Katz
Palmer House Stars by Leslie Heaphy
The Peculiar Professional Baseball Career of Eddie Gaedel by Eric Robinson
When They Were Just Boys: Chicago and Youth Baseball Take Center Stage by Alan Cohen
Stories of the White Sox: Farrell, Lardner, and Algren by James Hawking
Curse of the Billy Goat: An Adaptive Coping Strategy for Cubs Fans by Jeremy Ashton Houska, Ph.D.
Of Black Sox, Ball Yards, and Monty Stratton: Chicago Baseball Movies by Rob Edelman
Memories That Will Never Go-Go by Francis Kinlaw
Chicago Goes Hollywood: The Cubs, Wrigley Field, and Popular Culture by David Krell
Buying the White Sox: A Comic Opera Starring Bill Veeck, Hank Greenberg, and Chuck Comiskey by John Rosengren
William Hulbert: Father of Professional Sports Leagues by David Bohmer
The Western Baseball Tours of 1879 by Brock Helander
The Legacy of the Players League’s 1890 Chicago Pirates by Gordon Gattie
There Was Almost No World Series in 1905, Too: How Charlie Comiskey Could Have Ended the Fall Classic Before it Started by Chuck Hildebrandt
The Last Best Day: When Chicago Had Three First-Place Teams by Mark S. Sternman
Why did Wrigley, Lasker, and the Chicago Cubs Join a Presidential Campaign? by Mark Souder
Silas K. Johnson: An Illinois Farm Boy Who Made Baseball History by Matthew M. Clifford
A Fall Classic Comedy, Game Six, 1945 by John Rosengren
Bears, Cubs, and a Moose, Oh My by Joseph Wancho
Dean of Chicanery: Jerry Reinsdorf’s Plan to Enlist Hank Greenberg to Umpire the Northwestern Law School Student-Faculty Game and How it Backfired by John Rosengren
“Don’t Tell Them Any Different”: ‘Don Kessinger Night’ Caps a Long Career by Mark Randall
Lasting Impressions of Harry Caray by Suzanne Wright
The Game That Was Not: Philadelphia Phillies at Chicago Cubs, August 8, 1988 by Steven Glassman
The Chicago History Museum’s Baseball Photo Treasure Trove: The Chicago Daily News Glass Plate Negative Collection by Mark Fimoff
From the North Side to the Deep South by Francis Kinlaw
About the author
STUART SHEA has been writing professionally about baseball for more than 20 years and has authored or co-authored nine books about the game, including Wrigley Field: The Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines (University of Chicago Press). He served as editor of Fantasy Baseball Index for four years, worked as an MLB.com game reporter for a decade, and co-created the successful FAQ series of music and entertainment titles for Backbeat Books. A proud SABR member, he lives in Chicago.
