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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Chapter 1
Dead-Ball White Sox
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Beginnings
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Hitless Wonders
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Spitball Man
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Chapter 2
Prosperity and Scandal
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Around the World
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Red Faber, Spitball Man II
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The Black Sox Scandal
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Chapter 3
Roaring '20s and Depressing '30s
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Shoeless Joe Never Forgets
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A Lion on the Mound
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More Stars Than the Night Sky
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Bucketfoot Al
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Junior Tried to Be Like Dad
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Chapter 4
Stuck in the Second Division
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City Series Pleasures
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Shortstops Need Not Apply
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Street Smarts, Not Book Learning
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Bargain Pickup
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Dykes's Tight Ship
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Chapter 5
1950s Rejuvenation at Last
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The Go-Go White Sox
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Forever Is a Long Time
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El Senor
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The Third Fielder Up the Middle
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Chapter 6
The Hard-Throwing Lefty from Detroit
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Growing Up with the White Sox
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Steady Improvement
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Chasing Perfection
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Camaraderie
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The Man Who Turned It Around
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Waking Up the Fans
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Chapter 7
Old Sportshirt
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Veeck-as in Laughs
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The American Way
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Practice What You Preach
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Chapter 8
Throwing Piercing Stuff
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The Little Left-Hander
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Billy's Other Favorite Sport
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Winning the Pennant
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Chapter 9
Cy Young Reincarnated
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The Man of the Hour
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Better with Age
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Winning When Others around You Are Losing
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Going After 300
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Chapter 10
Top of the Mountain and the New-Look White Sox
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World Serious
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Trader Bill
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A 1960s Instant Replay
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New Slugger on the Block
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"Auld Lang Syne"
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Chapter 11
Wild Hair and Wild Doings on the South Side
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Veeck-as in Back
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The South-Side Hitmen
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A Slugger Emerges
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Fluttering to Success
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Disco Demolition Fame and Flames
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Chapter 12
Characters
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Richie Allen or Dick Allen?
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A Corker
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Orta Just What Was Ordered
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Double-Duty DeBusschere
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Everything Ventured, Everything Gained
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Chapter 13
Bright Spots Shy of Glory
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The Best There Is-for a Year
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Bo Knows Baseball
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Making Beautiful Music
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The Unlikely Big Banger
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Comiskey I and Comiskey II
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Chapter 14
Stars of Their Time
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The Big Hurt
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Maybe He Could Have Pitched Forever
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Fleet-Footed Luis
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Chapter 15
The 21st-Century Sox Unlimited
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The Bronzed Catcher
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Ozzie Stops Talking
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You Can Go Home Again
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The Big One That Got Away
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He's Seen the White Sox from Both Sides Now
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Chapter 16
World Series Champs...at Last
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The Impossible Dream Becomes Reality
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Four of a Kind
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Stepping Up Big Time
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A Second-Life Championship
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Everyone Loves a Parade
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Epilogue: Immortalized in Bronze
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Notes
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