| Ernie Banks: Mr. Cub and the Summer of '69 Contributor(s): Rogers, Phil (Author) |
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ISBN: 1600785190 ISBN-13: 9781600785191 Publisher: Triumph Books (IL) OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Sports - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - History - Travel | United States - Midwest - East North Central (il, In, Mi, Oh, Wi) |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2011007966 |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.33" W x 9.28" (1.19 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Midwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Respected by his baseball peers and 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. The life of 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'Neil placed him with the Cubs, is detailed in this biography of Mr. Cub. 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. |
