Ernie Banks Mr. Cub and the Summer of '69

by Rogers, Phil

• ISBN13: 9781600785191
• ISBN10: 1600785190
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-01
• Publisher: Triumph Books

Summary

Respected by his baseball peers, beloved by Chicago fans and teammates, Ernie Banks did everything there was to do in the game he loved. Everything, that is, except play in a World Series. How and why that experience eluded him during one season of particular promise - 1969 - is a key storyline of this fresh look at one of baseball's legendary players. Banks, who had picked cotton outside Dallas as a youth, ascended from a barnstorming semipro team to the major leagues after Kansas City Monarchs manager Buck O#xD5;Neil placed him with the Cubs. During his time in Chicago, Banks won two MVPs and received an education far better than the one he received in the segregated schools he'd attended, gaining important life skills while playing the game he was born to play.

Author Biography

Phil Rogers is the national baseball columnist for the Chicago Tribune. As a beat reporter he has covered the Chicago White Sox and Texas Rangers. His work has appeared on ESPN.com and in Baseball America, Inside Sports, and Sports Illustrated. He is the author of three books, including Say It's So, a look at the 2005 champion White Sox. He lives in Naperville, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Killing With Kindness	p. 1
February	p. 17
Two Different Americas	p. 25
March	p. 45
A Friend for Life	p. 57
April	p. 77
Open Doors into a White World	p. 83
May	p. 113
A Hitter and a Bullshitter	p. 121
June	p. 139
It's Okay to Be Black If You're Willie Mays	p. 149
July	p. 167
Step for Step with the Hammer and the Say Hey Kid	p. 179
August	p. 197
John Boccabella, John Herrnstein, and Other Trespassers	p. 205
September	p. 217
Everything But the Ring	p. 229
Notes	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 245
Index	p. 249
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