Say It's So: The Chicago White Sox's Magical Season
by Phil Rogers
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Author: Phil RogersEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-01
ISBN: 1572438703
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Triumph Books
Book Reviews of Say It's So: The Chicago White Sox's Magical Season
Book Review: Exciting but Flawed
Summary: 3 Stars
This book primarily reviews the exciting postseason of the 2005 World Champions. The 2005 White Sox held first place the entire year, posted the league's best record (99-63), went 11-1 in postseason, and swept the World Series. The only other team to lead wire-to-wire, post the top record, and sweep the Series? The 1927 New York Yankees of Babe Ruth and Lou Gherig. As a Sox fan, it's nice to relive those glorious wins against defending-champion Boston, a tough Angels squad, and the hard-fighting Houston Astros, who had the winning or go-ahead run in scoring position in the late inning of every game. I also liked reading player backgrounds on A.J. Piercynski, Paul Konerko, Jermaine Dye, Mark Buerhle, Bobby Jenks, etc. Chicago certainly was proud of its 2005 White Sox, a scrappy underdog team of solid pitching/defense that perservered despite less money and less media coverage than the big-money Cubs. Actually, until 2005 the White Sox had appeared in just one World Series (1959) since the scandal-plagued Black Sox of 1919.
Unfortunately, this book is a rather haphazard rush job in need of serious editing and more information. Chicagoans waited 88 years (since 1917) for a World Series winner; we deserve a better effort.
Summary of Say It's So: The Chicago White Sox's Magical Season
The Chicago White Sox's march to the 2005 World Series title was as surprising as it was dramatic, and in Say It's So: The Chicago White Sox's Magical Season, Phil Rogers delivers the inside story of how it came about. Rogers, senior baseball writer for the Chicago Tribune, describes the gamble general manager Ken Williams took in breaking up a powerful but plodding team in favor of one built around pitching, speed and defense. A team, in other words, that could play the game the way manager Ozzie Guillen wanted it played. In Guillen, the Sox found themselves a charismatic, live-wire leader whose every move seemed golden. Rogers provides a front-row view of the eccentric genius the second-year manager displayed in delivering Chicago its first World Series since 1959 and its first Series title since 1917. There's the rock-steady Paul Konerko, whose big bat and steely clubhouse presence carried the team through the postseason. There's the unsung third basemen Joe Crede, whose spectacular fielding and timely hitting on baseball's biggest stage stamped him as a rising star. There's the irascible catcher A.J. Pierzynski, the "Eddie Haskell" of the clubhouse, who found himself smack in the middle of every controversy. There's the fire of Bobby Jenks and the guile of Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez. And finally there's a deep and talented pitching staff that saw the team through its only rough spot of the regular season and then was simply dominant through all three founds of the postseason. The 2005 White Sox were a uniquely multi-cultural group that reflected their city's ethnic melting pot. They truly were Chicago's team--and they gave their fans a truly magical season.Baseball Books
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