The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Chicago White Sox: Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments from Chicago White Sox History (Good, the Bad, & the Ugly)

by Mark Gonzales

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Mentions
13	2	1,522,178	(3.5)	1
Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the Chicago White Sox documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly. In entertaining--and unsparing--fashion, this book sparkles with White Sox highlights and lowlights, from wonderful and wacky memories to the famous and infamous. Such moments include the magical run to the 2005 World Series title, as well as the notorious "Black Sox Scandal" that rocked the foundation of the sport. Whether providing fond memories, goose bumps, or laughs, this portrait of the team is sure to appeal to the fan who has been through it all.… (more)

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

hardtwiney, rjcook27, Big_Bang_Gorilla, Darasuum, AndreLorenz, emeadors, fuzzy_patters

▾Tags

22405_Baseball (1) 796.357 (1) baseball (4) Chicago White Sox (3) history (1) non-fiction (3) sports (1)

▾Lists

None

▾Will you like it?

▾Conversations (About links)

No current Talk conversations about this book.

» See also 1 mention

▾Member reviews

date ▼ | votes

Showing 2 of 2

Being a disorganized grabbag of anecdote concerning the fortunes of the Chicago White Sox, principally during the final quarter of the last century and the first decade of our own. To me, the lack of chronological, or any other, organization is slightly offputting, but I suppose that doesn't really matter in a book which is informative and depends heavily upon the reminiscences of individuals who were there at the time. I also wish that he had included more from the older years which I am more interested in, but, again, the author was a beat writer who drew upon sources that he knew. The Black Sox get a quick chapter, and older players show up when he enumerates Hall of Famers, but this is mostly for fans of the team around the turn of the century. (

)

Big_Bang_Gorilla | Dec 17, 2023 |

I read this with baseball season just around the corner. It was enlightening about some of the things that have gone on behind the scenes with the White Sox. I think it helps that Gonzalez is a White Sox beat reporter and likely witnessed a lot that was mentioned in the book. (

)

fuzzy_patters | Apr 15, 2012 |

date ▼ | votes

Showing 2 of 2

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors

▾Series and work relationships

▾Awards and Honors

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical title

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Original language

Canonical DDC/MDS

Canonical LCC

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾Book descriptions

Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the Chicago White Sox documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly. In entertaining--and unsparing--fashion, this book sparkles with White Sox highlights and lowlights, from wonderful and wacky memories to the famous and infamous. Such moments include the magical run to the 2005 World Series title, as well as the notorious "Black Sox Scandal" that rocked the foundation of the sport. Whether providing fond memories, goose bumps, or laughs, this portrait of the team is sure to appeal to the fan who has been through it all.

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Haiku summary