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03017aam a2200421Mi 4500 001 56C8F306524811EB9908E9352EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210109010009 008 190711t20202019nyuaf b 000 0beng d 020 $a 9780316318624 020 $a 0316318620 035 $a (OCoLC)1107811585 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ZPX $d SILO 082 04 $a 796.357092 $2 23 100 1 $a Rapoport, Ron. $e author. 245 10 $a Let's play two : $b the legend of Mr. Cub, the life of Ernie Banks / $c Ron Rapoport. 246 30 $a Legend of Mr. Cub : $b the life of Ernie Banks 250 $a First trade paperback edition. 260 $a New York, NY : $b Hachette Books, $c 2020. 300 $a xi, 452 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index (421-452). 520 $a Ernie Banks was a first-ballot Hall of Famer who played in fourteen All-Star Games, won two MVPs, and outslugged Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Mickey Mantle when they were in their prime. But while they made repeated World Series appearances in the 1950s and '60s, Banks spent his entire career with the woebegone Chicago Cubs, who didn't win a pennant in his adult lifetime. Failing to make the World Series bothered Banks so much that he even consulted a psychiatrist to see if that would help. It didn't. Yet Banks smiled through it all, never uttering a single negative word or complaint. Today, Banks is remembered best for his signature phrase, "Let's play two," which exemplifies the enthusiasm that endeared him to fans everywhere. But Bank's public display of good cheer was a mask that hid a deeply conflicted, melancholy, and often quite lonely man. Drawing on exclusive conversations with Banks and interviews with more than a hundred family members, teammates, friends, and associates as well as oral histories, court records, and many other documents and sources, Rapoport tells the full story. Let's Play Two is a moving portrait of a long-lost baseball era and the man -- and the caricature he invented for himself -- who stood at its center. 600 10 $a Banks, Ernie, $d 1931-2015. 610 20 $a Chicago Cubs (Baseball team) $x History. 650 0 $a African American baseball players $z Chicago $z Chicago $v Biography. 650 0 $a Baseball players $z Chicago $z Chicago $v Biography. 600 17 $a Banks, Ernie, $d 1931-2015. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00337545 610 27 $a Chicago Cubs (Baseball team) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00548369 650 7 $a African American baseball players. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799042 650 7 $a Baseball players. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00828007 651 7 $a Illinois $z Chicago. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204048 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l LHPD057 $d 20230915130137.0 $m B BANKS 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20210109010446.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=56C8F306524811EB9908E9352EECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search