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The Good, The Bad, &
The Ugly: White Sox
Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching
Moments From White Sox History
By Mark Gonzales/Foreword by Bill Melton
What fans don't love to relive the good times of their favorite team? Likewise, in a twisted sort of way, what fans can really resist a self-pitying look back on some of those times that tested their allegiance? Those forgettable games, seasons, and plays that made the good times even better?
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Chicago White Sox by Mark Gonzales (foreword by Bill Melton) presents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the White Sox. It also unmasks, but doesn't revel in, the bad, the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly.
In entertaining-and unsparing-fashion, this book sparkles with White Sox highlights, lowlights, wonderful and wacky memories, legends and goats, the famous and the infamous. You'll relive the magical run to the '05 World Series title, but also the notorious Black Sox Scandal that rocked the foundation of the sport.
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Chicago White Sox includes the best and worst White Sox teams and players of all time, the most clutch performances and performers, the biggest choke jobs and chokers, great comebacks and blown leads, plus overrated and underrated White Sox players and coaches. There are White Sox you loved for all the right reasons, and those you couldn't stand, sublime and embarrassing records, and trades, both savvy and savagely bad.
If you're a through-thick-and-thin Sox follower, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: White Sox is definitely for you. It will remind you of the good and great teams and bring a knowing smile about some of those other times, when you proved yourself to be a loyal fan. For everyone else, this warts-and-all portrait of the Sox will provide countless fond memories, goose bumps, and laughs.
About the author:
Mark Gonzales has been covering sports since Barry Bonds was a skinny high school outfielder in the early 1980s. His work has appeared in the Peninsula (CA) Times Tribune, the San Jose Mercury News, the Arizona Republic, Sports Illustrated, Baseball America, The Sporting News, and other publications. He currently reports on the White Sox for the Chicago Tribune.
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