[PDF] The Cubs eBook

Author : Rich Cohen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0374120927

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After his first Cubs game when Rich Cohen was eight, his father asked him to make a promise. "Promise me you will never be a Cubs fan. The Cubs do not win," he explained, "and because of that, a Cubs fan will have a diminished life determined by low expectations. That team will screw up your life." Here he captures the story of the team, its players and crazy days-- not just what happened, but what it felt like and what it meant. He searches for the cause of the famous curse, and came to see the curse as a burden but also as a blessing.

Author : Tom Verducci
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0804190011

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-With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their epic journey to become World Series champions---

Author : Roberts Ehrgott
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 080326478X

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Chicago in the Roaring Twenties was a city of immigrants, mobsters, and flappers with one shared passion: the Chicago Cubs. It all began when the chewing-gum tycoon William Wrigley decided to build the world’s greatest ball club in the nation’s Second City. In this Jazz Age center, the maverick Wrigley exploited the revolutionary technology of broadcasting to attract eager throngs of women to his renovated ballpark. Mr. Wrigley’s Ball Club transports us to this heady era of baseball history and introduces the team at its crazy heart—an amalgam of rakes, pranksters, schemers, and choirboys who take center stage in memorable successes, equally memorable disasters, and shadowy intrigue. Readers take front-row seats to meet Grover Cleveland Alexander, Rogers Hornsby, Joe McCarthy, Lewis “Hack” Wilson, Gabby Hartnett. The cast of characters also includes their colorful if less-extolled teammates and the Cubs’ nemesis, Babe Ruth, who terminates the ambitions of Mr. Wrigley’s ball club with one emphatic swing.

Author : Chicago Tribune (Firm)
Publisher : Agate Midway
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781572842175

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A decade-by-decade look at Chicago Cubs history collecting original photography, box scores, reproduced articles, new essays, timelines, and more from the Chicago Tribune's vast archives. Curated by Chicago Tribune sports editors, this book covers important moments from the team's beginnings in 1876 to the triumphant 2016 World Series Championship. --

Author : Gerald C. Wood
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786436239

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This collection of 19 essays examine the role of baseball's Cubs in the history and politics of Chicago. They focus on topics such as the rise of a nationwide fan base through the long reach of superstation WGN; the local uses and views of icons Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, and Ryne Sandberg; historical divides along lines of race (on the field) and class (in the stands); Wrigley Field as a public space both sacred and cursed; the importance of local and nationwide media coverage; and the Cubs' impact on Chicago music and literature.

Author : Scott Simon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0735218048

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NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured—and now triumphant—franchise. Heartbreak and hope. Charmed and haunted. My Cubs is Scott Simon’s love letter to his Chicago Cubs, World Series winners for the first time in over a century. Replete with personal reflections, club lore, memorable anecdotes, and tales of frenetic fandom, My Cubs recounts the franchise’s pivotal moments with the wise and adoring intimacy of a long-suffering devotee and Chicago native. Simon illustrates how the condition of “Cubness” has defined the life of so many Chicagoans and how the team’s fortunes became intertwined with the aspirations of its faithful. With the curse finally broken on November 2, 2016, My Cubs is the perfect portrayal of paradise lost and found.

Author : Roger Snell
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781893239951

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The story of Charlie Root and the 1929 Chicago Cubs -- Root holds the record for the most wins, games, and innings pitched in Cub history. He also happens to be the pitcher that gave up the highly controversial "called shot" to Babe Ruth in the 1932 World Series.

Author : George R. Matthews
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 2009-09-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786454121

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In the fall of 1908, no one could have guessed that the Chicago Cubs, a team that had dominated the National league three straight years, would for a century be shut out in its efforts to reclaim the world championship. Stars like Frank Chance, Ed Reulbach, and Three Finger Brown were still in their prime, and the Cubs had just emerged the winner in the most remarkable pennant race in history. In the decades since, the achievement of the 1908 Cubs has been overshadowed first by the events of the season, which included the Merkle Game and a playoff that pitted two all-time great pitchers against each other, and more recently by the calendar, as the centennial anniversary of the last Cubs championship closed in. This book rescues the 1908 team from its status as footnote to baseball history, following one of the all-time great clubs on a thrilling, season-long march toward the World Series.

Author : Dan Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Baseball fans
ISBN : 9781932594287

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Chicago Cubs fans offer a unique conduit for understanding how our brain lets us believe in a "curse", and what makes a day at the ballpark so enjoyable. For the players, brain research offers insight into what makes it possible to hit a fastball traveling 95-miles an hour.

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Publisher : Skybox Press
Page : pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 2016-12-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780996455329

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World Champion Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series Commemorative Book