‘THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE BOOK OF THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX: A DECADE-BY-DECADE HISTORY’

Don’t let the black-and-silver uniforms fool you. From their beginnings as the founding franchise of the American League to the current day, the White Sox have had a wealth of colorful characters and personalities. “Black Jack” and “Jungle Jim.” The “Hitless Wonders” and “Winning Ugly.” Short pants and pinstripes. The Black Sox scandal and the “White Flag” trade. To be a White Sox fan is to know the highest of highs, the lowest of lows and all points in between. “The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago White Sox: A Decade-by-Decade History” touches all those bases and covers more than a century of South Side baseball. It’s the latest in our series of history books on Chicago’s major professional sports teams. At over 300 pages, it’s filled with great features and profiles, plus stunning images from the Tribune’s awardwinning photojournalists. Get a copy for yourself — and maybe another one for that diehard Sox fan in your life — at store.chicagotribune.com/books.

“THE BEST OF ROYKO: THE TRIBUNE YEARS”

“The Best of Royko: The Tribune Years” is a new collection David Royko, Mike Royko’s son, edited of nearly 200 of his father’s later columns. It’s a formidable volume, one that reminds us why Royko was synonymous with Chicago.The book is available now at chicagotribune. com/roykobook or call 877-687-4277.

HOW THE NEWSPAPER GETS PRINTED

Visit the Tribune’s Freedom Center for a two and half hour tour of the printing presses, press plates and enormous paper rolls, and get a taste of the Tribune’s history: 9 a.m. Sept. 14, Chicago Tribune Freedom Center, 777 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago. $25 tickets. Free parking, lot opens 20 minutes before start of tour. For tickets, go to chicagotribune.com/freedomcenter