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From Black Sox to Three-Peats : A Century of Chicago's Best Sportswriting from the "Tribune," "Sun-Times," and Other Newspapers, Paperback / softback Book

From Black Sox to Three-Peats : A Century of Chicago's Best Sportswriting from the "Tribune," "Sun-Times," and Other Newspapers Paperback / softback

Edited by Ron Rapoport

Paperback / softback

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Bears, Bulls, Cubs, Sox, Blackhawks - there's no city like Chicago when it comes to sports.

Generation after generation, Chicagoans pass down their almost religious allegiances to teams, stadiums, and players and their never-say-die attitude, along with the stories of the city's best (and worst) sports moments. And every one of those moments - every come-from-behind victory or crushing defeat - has been chronicled by Chicago's unparalleled sportswriters.

In From Black Sox to Three-Peats, veteran Chicago sports columnist Ron Rapoport assembles one hundred of the best pieces from the Tribune, Sun-Times, Daily News, Defender, and other papers to tell the unforgettable story of a century of Chicago sports.

From Ring Lardner to Rick Telander, Westbrook Pegler to Bob Verdi, Mike Royko to Wendell Smith, Melissa Isaacson to Brent Musburger, and on, this collection reminds us that Chicago sports fans have enjoyed a wealth of talent not just on the field, but in the press box as well. Through their stories we relive the betrayal of the Black Sox, the cocksure power of the '85 Bears, the assassin's efficiency of Jordan's Bulls, the Blackhawks' stunning reclamation of the Stanley Cup, and the Cubs' century of futility.

Sports are the most ephemeral of news events: once you know the outcome, the drama is gone.

But every once in a while, there are those games, those teams, those players that make it into something more-and great writers can transform those fleeting moments into lasting stories that become part of the very identity of a city.

From Black Sox to Three-Peats is Chicago history at its most exciting and celebratory.

No sports fan should be without it.

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