Product Description: Beginning with the premise that there is no other rivalry in team sports like that between the Cubs and the White Sox this work traces the history of the antagonism (and, at times, open hostility) between the fans of the two clubs...read more

Based on interviews with players, coaches, fans, and personnel, an oral history of the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field recounts the 1871 founding of the Chicago franchise and the team's ongoing quest for a World Series championship

Product Description: Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the Chicago White Sox documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly...read more

Product Description: In 1945 the most famous curse in sports was placed on the Chicago Cubs when Bill Sianis and his goat were ejected from Wrigley Field. Though Sianis purchased two tickets for the fourth game of the World Series against Detroit, the goat s stench led to the pair's ouster...read more

Product Description: In 'Classic Cubs: A Tribute to the Men and Magic of Wrigley Field, ' artist John Hanley celebrates the glorious history and milestones of the team and highlights a galaxy of hall of fame ballplayers with more than 125 original oil paintings and drawing created exclusively for this book...read more

''Founded in 1920, the Negro National League comprised teams throughout the Midwest, but the league's groundwork was laid in one city--Chicago. This work presents notable papers delivered at the 2005 Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference in Chicago. The work offers a cohesive history of Chicago's long relationship with Black baseball'--Provided by publisher.

'With a chapter on each World Series involving a Chicago team, this book covers 100 years of October baseball in the Windy City, from the 1906 classicwhich pitted the North Siders against the South Siders-to 2005, when the White Sox ended 88 years of frustration. Contemporary accounts from newspapers and sports publications complement the author's informed commentary'--Provided by publisher.With a chapter on each World Series involving a Chicago team, covers one hundred years of October baseball in the Windy City, from the 1906 classic which pitted the North Siders against the South Siders to 2005, when the White Sox ended eighty-eight years of frustration.

Product Description: The Chicago Cubs of the mid-1920s through 1940 were one of the most talented and exciting ball clubs the city ever produced. The Northsiders enjoyed 14 consecutive winning seasons and claimed the National League pennant four times (1929, 1932, 1935, and 1938), but fell to a dominant American League club in each World Series appearance...read more

Traces the history of baseball in Chicago and explores the traditions and records of their two major league teams.