Hartford Courant

‘Let’s Play Two’: A new biography goes behind the sunny smiles of Ernie Banks

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 ...
National Review

Ernie Banks’s Life of Sunshine and Shadows

Emma Watson Cannot Have It Both Ways in Her Feud with J. K. Rowling The Great Relearning Happy Gilmore 2: Golf and Unity Five Problems with Blaming the Guns Let’s Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the ...
Forbes

Ernie Banks Was Never Paid Well By The Chicago Cubs, Even In His Own Era, New Book Reveals

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 ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Author recalls Ernie 'Mr. Cubs' Banks' pain at never playing in World Series

CHICAGO (WLS) -- This season marks the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Cubs, Chicago's most beloved second place team that wilted down the stretch. The team featured four Hall of Fame players, including ...
Los Angeles Times

Mike Trout doesn’t want to become the next Ernie Banks

While the Angels and their fans open the baseball season breathing a sigh of relief because Mike Trout is not going to leave them, I find myself reacting to the news with one terrifying thought: What ...