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Let's Play Two - The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks (Paperback)
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Let's Play Two - The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 530
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Ernie Banks, the first-ballot Hall of Famer and All-Century Team
shortstop, played in fourteen All-Star Games, won two MVPs and a
Gold Glove Award, and twice led the Major Leagues in home runs and
runs batted in. His signature phrase, "Let's play two," has entered
the American lexicon and exemplifies an enthusiasm and optimism
that endeared him to fans everywhere. But Banks's public display of
good cheer was also a mask that hid a deeply conflicted and complex
man. He spent his entire career with the Chicago Cubs, who fielded
some of baseball's worst teams, and became one of the greatest
players never to reach the World Series. He endured poverty and
racism as a young man, and the scorn of Cubs manager Leo Durocher
as an aging superstar. Yet Banks smiled through it all, never
complaining and never saying a negative word about his
circumstances or the people around him. Based on numerous
conversations with Banks, and on more than a hundred interviews
with family, teammates, friends, and associates--as well as oral
histories, court records, and thousands of other documents and
sources--Let's Play Two tells Banks's story along with that of the
woebegone Cubs teams he played for. This fascinating chronicle
features Buck O'Neil, Philip K. Wrigley, the Bleacher Bums, the
doomed pennant race of 1969, and much more from a long lost
baseball era.
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