{"id":22167,"date":"2014-06-24T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=22167"},"modified":"2014-06-21T12:20:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T17:20:20","slug":"northside-or-southside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/northside-or-southside\/","title":{"rendered":"Northside or Southside?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of great championship teams have come out of Chicago – the Bears of Ditka and Peyton, the 2013 Stanley Cup winning Blackhawks, the glory years of Michael Jordan and the Bulls – but baseball (despite the White Sox finally winning the World Series in 2003, just 89 years after their previous victory) has been mostly littered with tears and crushed hopes. Yet we remain loyal fans, clinging to the glory days (even though most of us aren’t old enough to have seen them!) and holding onto the belief that, maybe this will be the year they win it all.<\/p>\n

Well, while you’re licking your wounds yet again (although the Sox are hanging close!), here are some great new titles about Chicago’s boys of summer.<\/p>\n

\"beforeBefore Wrigley Became Wrigley<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by \u00a0Sean Deveney<\/p>\n

This book explores\u00a0the\u00a0early years\u00a0of\u00a0Wrigley\u00a0Field, when it bore a different name and housed a different team. Sean Deveney has mined documents and resources from baseball’s Hall\u00a0of\u00a0Fame in Cooperstown, as well as\u00a0the Chicago History Museum, to supplement\u00a0the\u00a0reports in newspapers and magazines\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0day, giving readers a behind-the-scenes look at\u00a0the\u00a0origins and birth pangs\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0park.<\/p>\n

\"johnny<\/a>Johnny Evers<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Dennis Snelling.<\/p>\n

Johnny\u00a0Evers\u00a0was the heartbeat of one of the greatest teams of the 20th century and the fiercest competitor this side of Ty Cobb. This is the biography of\u00a0a\u00a0man who literally wrote the book about playing his position and set the standard for winning\u00a0baseball.<\/p>\n

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\"turning<\/a>Turning the Black Sox White<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Tim Hornbaker<\/p>\n

Charles Comiskey was a larger-than-life figure – a man who had precision in his speech and who could work a room with handshakes and smiles. While he has been vilified in film as a rotund cheapskate and\u00a0the\u00a0driving force, albeit unknowingly, behind\u00a0the\u00a0actions of the\u00a01919\u00a0White\u00a0Sox who threw\u00a0the\u00a0World Series (nicknamed\u00a0the\u00a0“Black\u00a0Sox” scandal), that statement is far from\u00a0the\u00a0truth.<\/p>\n

\"wrigley<\/a>Wrigley Field: the Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Stuart Shea<\/p>\n

In spring 1914, a new ballpark opened in Chicago. Hastily constructed after epic political maneuvering around Chicago’s and organized baseball’s hierarchies, the new Weeghman Park (named after its builder, fast-food magnate Charley Weeghman) was home to the Federal League’s Chicago Whales. The park would soon be known as Wrigley Field, one of the most emblematic and controversial baseball stadiums in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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