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Respected By His Baseball Peers And Beloved By Chicago Fans And Teammates Ernie Banks Did Everything There Was To Do In The Game He Loved. Everything That Is Except Play In A World Series. How And Why That Experience Eluded Him During One Season Of Particular Promise1969Is A Key Storyline Of This Fresh Look At One Of Baseball’S Legendary Players. The Life Of Banks Who Had Picked Cotton Outside Dallas As A Youth Ascended From A Barnstorming Semipro Team To The Major Leagues After Kansas City Monarchs Manager Buck O’Neil Placed Him With The Cubs Is Detailed In This Biography Of Mr. Cub. During His Time In Chicago Banks Won Two Mvps And Received An Education Far Better Than The One He Received In The Segregated Schools He’D Attended Gaining Important Life Skills While Playing The Game He Was Born To Play. Hardcover By Phil Rogers 272 Pages Isbn-13: 978-1600785191 By Triumph Books
