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The 1959 Chicago White Sox broke a forty-year pennant
drought on the city’s South Side, begun after the 1919 Black Sox
scandal. The scrappy Go-Go Sox, with pitching, fielding
and timely hitting, finally overcame the New York Yankees’ dominance of the
American League, only to lose to the L.A. Dodgers in the World Series.
Go-Go to Glory is a tribute to the men of that Go-Go Sox team. It is more
than a simple memoir of a memorable season, providing an in-depth look at an
entire era of baseball through the prism of one remarkable team in Chicago.
Here you’ll find original biographies of every single player, coach, broadcaster
and key front-office personnel who contributed to the magical 1959 season, as
well as appreciations of the 1950s White Sox by fans and historians. Featuring
individual lifetime bios on owner Bill Veeck and the following players, coaches,
and management of the 1959 White Sox:
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Luis Aparicio
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Billy Goodman
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Gary Peters
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Rodolfo Arias
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Hank Greenberg
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Bubba Phillips
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Earl Battey
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Joe Hicks
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Billy Pierce
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Ray Berres
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Ron Jackson
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Claude Raymond
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Ray Boone
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Ted Kluszewski
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Jim Rivera
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Johnny Callison
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Jim Landis
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John Romano
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Cam Carreon
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Barry Latman
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Don Rudolph
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Norm Cash
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Sherm Lollar
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Bob Shaw
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Johnny Cooney
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Al Lopez
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Harry Simpson
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Tony Cuccinello
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Turk Lown
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Lou Skizas
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Larry Doby
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J.C. Martin
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Al Smith
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Dick Donovan
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Jim McAnany
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Jerry Staley
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Del Ennis
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Ken McBride
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Joe Stanka
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Sammy Esposito
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Ray Moore
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Earl Torgeson
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Nellie Fox
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Don Mueller
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Early Wynn
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| A project of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), this volume
gathers the collective efforts of more than forty SABR members and friends of
this nonprofit research society. Don Zminda (editor), of California, is the Director
of Research for STATS LLC. R.J. Lesch (associate editor), of Iowa, is a business
analyst. Len Levin (associate editor), of Rhode Island, is a newspaper editor. Bill
Nowlin (associate editor), of Massachusetts, is a record producer and the national
Vice President of the Society for American Baseball Research. |
