Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club write by Roberts Ehrgott. This book was released on 2013-04-01. Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Chicago Cubs
Chicago Cubs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chicago Cubs write by Jim Vitti. This book was released on 2010. Chicago Cubs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It's not quite like today's spring training: one might find a rookie ballplayer (nicknamed Hack) uprooting trees with his bare hands or a future president of the United States getting into a barroom brawl with some grizzled sportswriters. The team was the Chicago Cubs, and the place was Santa Catalina Island-through the Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, and World War II. William Wrigley owned both island and ballclub; from 1921 to 1951, they came together. There were movie stars, like Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe. There were grand steamships, big bands, hopes and dreams, and World Series rings. It's Chicago Cubs: Baseball on Catalina Island, and it's a trip like no other.
The Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chicago Cubs write by Rich Cohen. This book was released on 2017-10-03. The Chicago Cubs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs write by Chicago Tribune (Firm). This book was released on 2017. The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. --
Northsiders
Northsiders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Northsiders write by Gerald C. Wood. This book was released on 2008-08-21. Northsiders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
