Go-Go to Glory

Go-Go to Glory
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Total Pages : 247
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ISBN-10 : 0879463864
ISBN-13 : 9780879463861
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Book Synopsis Go-Go to Glory by : Don Zminda

Download or read book Go-Go to Glory written by Don Zminda and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go-Go to Glory celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the scrappy Go-Go Sox of 1959--a team that broke a forty-year pennant drought in Chicago's South Side by overcoming the New York Yankee's dominance of the American League. Histories of Comiskey Park and the lead-up to the 1959 season, coupled with original biographies of all the players, coaches, broadcasters, and key front-office personnel, are accompanied by fan memoirs. A project of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), Go-Go to Glory book gathers the collective efforts of more than forty SABR members and friends of this nonprofit research society.


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