The 1959 pennant-winning White Sox, a club he always claimed was the best team in the majors that season, only to fall short in the Fall Classic against the Los Angeles Dodgers in six games. He cherished his days as a baseball beat writer and magazine editor with exciting days covering some of Chicago’s best teams.
When that young boy grew up into a respected writer, husband, father and friend, he would witness many other World Series games, including two other Cubs defeats in 1938 to the New York Yankees and 1945 to the Tigers.
that wonderful time when life was simple and baseball its mainspring.” and even Charlie Root who was an ancient 36 then. “Jurges, Billy Herman, Galan, Lon Warneke, Stan Hack, Frank Demaree, a teenager named Phil Cavarretta. And now when baseball comes alive over the prospects of another World Series, I think back fondly to that happy day in 1935 when a skinny, redheaded kid saw his heroes in the flesh for the first time. “The trip back home has been lost in memory, and I don’t recall too much about the many other games we later saw together. The ball landed a few rows in front of us. “I remember Gabby Hartnett hitting a home run. ‘They are usually excellent fielders,’ dad said. “The Tigers scoring the winning run on two errors-one by left fielder Augie Galan and the other by shortstop Billy Jurges. I don’t remember all the details, but I do remember some of them. ‘See,’ he said, ‘there’s Mickey Cochrane and Charlie Gehringer and Billy Rogell and Tommy Bridges.
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