Play ball! Author and baseball historian Charles Billington returns to the Brookfield Public Library on Tuesday, April 24 at 7:00 p.m. to present a look at Comisky Park’s last World Series. Popularly known as the “Go-Go Sox”, the 1959 Chicago White Sox were the South Side’s first pennant winners in 40 years, but their success played in front of a tragic backdrop: one of Chicago’s first families locked in a bitter legal battle for control of a prized heirloom, the team itself. Billington delves into this history, which includes a film analysis of the 1959 World Series as well as a legal and business history of the 1950s-era baseball industry. Learn how the White Sox used clutch pitching, defense, and speed to “go-go” on to win the American League Pennant.
For more information or to register to attend, please call the Brookfield Public Library at 708-485-6917 x 130 or sign up online at www.brookfieldpubliclibrary.info/calendar.
