The weather will warm (won’t it?) and baseball season will arrive in a few weeks but in the meantime, there will be a steady stream of people visiting a grave a few blocks north of Wrigley Field. Many ...

“Let’s Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks” by Doug Wilson, Rowman & Littlefield, 239 pages, $24.95. For more than 60 years Ernie Banks was the face of the Chicago Cubs franchise. In fact, ...

Let’s put this into perspective. During his 19-year Major League career ending in 1971 – all with the Chicago Cubs – Ernie Banks earned an estimated $680,500. Those figures might be incomplete, noted ...

In this exuberant biography, Wilson (Pudge: The Biography of Carlton Fisk) takes an in-depth look at Ernie Banks (1931–2015), the beloved Chicago Cubs player whose trademark phrase “Let’s play two” ...

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