And so it came down to...Game 7. For all, do you hear me ALL of the marbles...the 1969 Chicago Cubs versus the 1964 Chicago White Sox. Two teams, one city. Both coming close to the Promised Land of the pennant. Both falling just short. BOTH locked in mortal, blood combat-Gladiators in the arena, Soldiers on the battlefield, Bareknuckled brawlers in the ring, Gangs on a rumble, the Jets and Sharks in a sissy-slap fight...
Two teams-one memorialized in songs, plays, poems, books, rhapsodies,...

Game 2
at old Comiskey Park


Game Summary

Lineups:

Cubs

Don Kessinger, SS
Glenn Beckert, 2B
Billy Williams, LF
Ron Santo, 3B
Ernie Banks, 1B
Jim Hickman, RF
Randy Hundley, C
Don Young, CF
Ken Holtzman, P

White Sox

Jim Landis, CF
Don Buford, 2B
Floyd Robinson, LF
Pete Ward, 3B
Bill Skowron, 1B
Mike Hershberger, RF
Ron...

There are only so many "game summaries" I can post in "newspaper" form and only so many times I can poke fun of Sox fan-Cub fan stereotypes before the jokes get old. So for this one I'll just post some game stats and a few "tidbits."

Game 1 "Why Us? Series"


Lineups

1969 Cubs

Don Kessinger, SS
Glenn Beckert, 2B
Billy Williams, LF
Ron Santo, 3B
Ernie Banks, 1B
Jim...

Thread on White Sox fan message board:

This Date in White Sox History:

October 5, 1964 The White Sox hook up with the Yankees in a one-game playoff at Comiskey Park to decide the AL pennant after both teams finish the season in a 99-63 tie. Al Lopez taps lefty Juan Pizarro to start the game, Yankee manager Yogi Berra rolls the dice and goes with Whitey Ford on two days' rest in an effort to neutralize a White Sox hitting "attack" that couldn't hit left handers....

Excerpt from SOX! A Fan's Memoir by Dick Dopey (Diamond Communications, South Bend, IN. 2006)

My entire neighborhood was abuzz with excitement that weekend when the White Sox tied the Yankees, which would mean a one game playoff for the pennant. I was the envy of every kid on my block when I announced that my mom had scored three tickets for the game, and I would be playing hooky from school in order to attend the game with my mother and four year old brother. Even then, I was superior...