The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Time Machine Book
The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Time Machine presents a timeline format that not only includes the Cubs’ greatest moments—including their World Series appearance in 2016 and individual achievements—but also focuses on some very unusual seasons and events, such as the 1872 season when the Great Chicago Fire destroyed their stadium and uniforms. There are dozens of impressive, wild, wacky, and wonderful stories over the years regarding Cubs history, and Gitlin is the perfect person to write it with his trademark humor and thorough knowledge of team lore.
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The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Time Machine Book
The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Time Machine presents a timeline format that not only includes the Cubs’ greatest moments—including their World Series appearance in 2016 and individual achievements—but also focuses on some very unusual seasons and events, such as the 1872 season when the Great Chicago Fire destroyed their stadium and uniforms. There are dozens of impressive, wild, wacky, and wonderful stories over the years regarding Cubs history, and Gitlin is the perfect person to write it with his trademark humor and thorough knowledge of team lore.
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The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Time Machine Book

The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Time Machine Book

by Martin Gitlin
The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Time Machine Book

The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Time Machine Book

by Martin Gitlin

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Overview

The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Time Machine presents a timeline format that not only includes the Cubs’ greatest moments—including their World Series appearance in 2016 and individual achievements—but also focuses on some very unusual seasons and events, such as the 1872 season when the Great Chicago Fire destroyed their stadium and uniforms. There are dozens of impressive, wild, wacky, and wonderful stories over the years regarding Cubs history, and Gitlin is the perfect person to write it with his trademark humor and thorough knowledge of team lore.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493051793
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date: 04/01/2021
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Martin Gitlin is a veteran author and sportswriter. He has had about 150 books published since 2006, including A Celebration of Animation; The 100 Greatest Cartoon Characters in Television History (Lyons Press, 2018) with Joe Wos. His Great American Cereal Book soared to No. 1 in both the Americana and Breakfast Book categories on Amazon.com immediately upon release and remained there for several months, while his Powerful Moments in Sports: The Most Significant Sporting Events in American History earned critical acclaim. Gitlin won more than 45 awards as a sports journalist from 1991 to 2002, including first place for general excellence from the Associated Press for his coverage of the Indians-Braves World Series in 1995. AP also selected him as one of the top four feature writers in Ohio. Gitlin lives in North Olmsted, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Chapter 1 Birth of Baseball and Beyond in Chicago 1

Chapter 2 Spalding's Crown and Cap's Crews 8

Chapter 3 Double-Play Dynamos and Three-Finger Stud 15

Chapter 4 From Weeghman to Wrigley 23

Chapter 5 Hippo, Hartnett, Hack, Hornsby, and Herman 33

Chapter 6 Cause of a Curse 43

Chapter 7 Let's Play Two! 51

Chapter 8 The Barren Years 61

Chapter 9 One Sad Death and One Sorry Swap 69

Chapter 10 The Hall of Famers 74

Chapter 11 Black Cat and Big Collapse 81

Chapter 12 Infighting and Frustration 89

Chapter 13 Passing the Torches 95

Chapter 14 So Close, Yet So Far 104

Chapter 15 Super Sandberg and the Hawk 112

Chapter 16 Super Season and Sad Staffs 119

Chapter 17 The Saga of Sammy Sosa 128

Chapter 18 Strikeout King and Run to the Playoffs 138

Chapter 19 "Hey Hey!" and "Hello Again Everybody" 144

Chapter 20 "Don't Touch That Ball!" 151

Chapter 21 The Piniella Era 158

Chapter 22 The Theo Plan 166

Chapter 23 Destroying the Demons 174

Notes 187

Sources 193

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