The Cubs: The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball

The Cubs: The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball
by Glenn Stout

The Cubs: The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball
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Author: Glenn Stout
Photographer: Richard A. Johnson
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-01
ISBN: 0618595007
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Book Review: The BEST Cubs book ever
Summary: 5 Stars

I think I have read every Cubs book ever published and, without question, this is by far the best, best looking, and most comprehensive history of the team i have ever read. It has a little of everything, well, actually alot of everything - hundreds of new pictures, stats and essays plus a narrative history that reads like a PBS special, smart, thorough and thought provoking. Unlike so many other Cubs books this doesn't just focus on 1969, or all the billy goat bs, but tells Cub history as one big story, from the beginning to the start of the 2007 season. It looks like a coffee table book (and is BIG) but reads like something David McCullough might have written. Good to read straight through, like I did, or to flip through and look at the pictures like my son did with his grandfather. After reading this book you'll love the Cubs just as much as ever but you'll win any argument with other Cubs fans.

The only thing I didn't like was the ending. If the Cubs could only win a World Series, this book would be perfect.

Summary of The Cubs: The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball

The definitive narrative history of the Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs have won the hearts of generations of fans, even if they haven?t always won those pivotal games. They were America?s most successful baseball club at the turn of the twentieth century, but by the turn of the twenty-first, things had changed. The Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908, and the last time they clinched the National League Pennant was in 1945. Yet the Cubs have some of the most devoted fans in all of sport. As Glenn Stout writes in the introduction, “They are the game?s last unsolved mystery, the final conundrum, a historical enigma, baseball?s oldest story, with an ending that has yet to be written.? The Cubs chronicles the long, rich, counterintuitive history of this team in all its depth, nuance, and color. We catch a rare glimpse of the early days of Chicago baseball in the 1860s and 1870s and witness the magical 1906 season, with its 116 wins, still the most in major league history. Ernie Banks?s legendary career is covered in detail, as are decisive seasons, such as 1969?s heartbreaking loss to the Amazin? Mets. Sammy Sosa?s sixty-plus home runs are here too — together with later allegations regarding corked bats and steroids. The authors cast an analytical eye on the tumultuous reign of chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley and his son Philip, as well as the Tribune Company's planned sale of the Cubs. And we hear the true story behind the “Curse of the Billy Goat? — what has really “cursed? the Cubs all these years.
A must-have for Cubs fans past and present, The Cubs tells the complete story in a single narrative for the first time since 1945.

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