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The Chicago White Sox (Writing Sports Series)

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A facsimile reproduction of the 1952 history of the White Sox

Warren Brown’s team history of the Chicago White Sox at the beginning appeared in 1952 as a part of the celebrated series of major league team histories published by G. P. Putnam. With their colorful prose and delightful narratives, the Putnam books have been described as the Cadillac of team histories and have change into prized collectibles for baseball readers and historians.

In telling the story of the White Sox, Warren Brown recounts the almost improbable adventures of “the Hitless Wonders” who stole the pennant in 1906 with a team batting average of only .228. A few of the many stories is an account of a round-the-world exhibition tour that Charles Comiskey’s White Sox and John McGraw’s Giants made in 1913. The climax of the tour came when the two clubs played before George V of England, who, after an White Sox rally had been nipped by a pop-up to the Giants’ third baseman, turned to his interpreter and remarked, “A most useful catch, was once it not?”

But it’s the infamous team of 1919 that may be the writer’s major center of attention. This team was once an overwhelming favorite to win the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds, but eight White Sox players accepted bribes from gamblers to fix the Series. The players were eventually banned from baseball and branded by history as the notorious Black Sox.


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