Stan Mikita was one of my sports heroes when I was growing up in Chicago. I was talking with a couple of buddies of mine from the old neighborhood on the north side of Chicago this afternoon, and I recalled we had seven big-time sports heroes at that time: Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Ron Santo from the Cubs; Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita from the Hawks; and Gale Sayers and Dick Butkus from the Bears. (We were north side, so we didn’t care too much about the Sox.)
Stan was also an assistant pro golfer at Kemper lakes when it was being built.
And had you been lucky enough to be born on the South Side (and lived to tell about it!), you could add Billy Pierce, Minnie Minuses and Nellie Fox to the list.
But I do have to agree with the rest of your list, especially Ernie Banks, despite my antipathy for the Cubbies. And I’m still amazed the Bears were able to get Butkus and Sayers in the same draft (having had the good sense to pass on Tucker Fredrickson) - and then never win anything with them.
Too bad, because if you were a Sox fan instead, your list would be twice as big as it is now. /s
Congrats on the WS win.