The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs
Title | The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs PDF eBook |
Author | Chicago Tribune (Firm) |
Publisher | Agate Midway |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9781572842175 |
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. --
The Chicago Cubs
Title | The Chicago Cubs PDF eBook |
Author | Rich Cohen |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2017-10-03 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0374120927 |
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.
The Cubs Way
Title | The Cubs Way PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Verducci |
Publisher | |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0804190011 |
-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---
Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club
Title | Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club PDF eBook |
Author | Roberts Ehrgott |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 511 |
Release | 2013-04-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 080326478X |
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.
Cubs Nation
Title | Cubs Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Gene Wojciechowski |
Publisher | Doubleday Books |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780385513005 |
From Ernie Banks, the legendary "Mr. Cub," to Sammy Sosa, today's record-setting sensation, "Cubs Nation" traces the history of a team that often had everything going for it and yet was so hampered by losses that it came to define the term "lovable losers."
Your Brain on Cubs
Title | Your Brain on Cubs PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Gordon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Baseball fans |
ISBN | 9781932594287 |
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.
Root for the Cubs
Title | Root for the Cubs PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Snell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2009-04-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9781893239951 |
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.