When Chicago Ruled Baseball

Author:

By Bernard Weisberger

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Paperback

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Baseball, Baseball Teams, Chicago, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox

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Further Details

• Published: 1st May 2007
• ISBN: 0060592370
• Pages: 256

From the Publisher:

In 1906 the baseball world saw something that had never been done. Two teams from the same city squared off against each other in a World Series that pitted the heavily favored Cubs of the National League against the hardscrabble American League champion White Sox. Now, more than a century later, noted historian Bernard A. Weisberger tells the tale of a unique time in baseball, a unique time in America, and a time when Chicago was at the center of it all.

When Chicago Ruled Baseball brings to life a dazzling epoch in a land of the self-made man - where A. G. Spalding helped establish baseball as both a national pastime and a thriving business, where Mordecai "Three-Finger" Brown overcame a horribly disfiguring injury and pitched his way into the Hall of Fame..... and Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance proved that you could use teamwork to stand out as stars.

Weisberger brings to life an unforgettable story of how a city that had rebuilt itself from the ashes of the Great Fire thirty-five years earlier became the focal point of an entire baseball-loving country, and one grand sporting contest staked its claim as one of the most remarkable and electrifying World Series ever to be played.