Game of My Life Chicago Cubs
Game of My Life Chicago Cubs

Author: Lew Freedman

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2012-07

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1613210698

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Whether they wore white stockings or blue helmets, the baseball players of Chicago's North Side have always had great stories to tell. Now fans of this loveable franchise will finally get to hear from twenty-eight of the best players as they relive that singular moment which defined their Cubs career. In this newly updated edition of Game of My Life Chicago Cubs, veteran sportswriter Lew Freedman brings readers off the bench and onto the field with such greats as Billy Williams, Ernie Banks, Ferguson Jenkins, and more.

Fergie
Fergie

Author: Fergie Jenkins

Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781600781711

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Jenkins' life story--from Chatham, Ontario, to Cooperstown--is compelling, and Fergie tells it himself in his own unique and inimitable style. A tremendous all-around athlete who has always been proud of his roots and representing his country during a lifetime in the game, Jenkins established a reputation as one of the greatest pitchers of not only his era but of all time. A strikeout king who whiffed more than 3,000 batters, Jenkins earned the trust of his managers as a pitcher who completed what he started. This is the story of a man who refused to be leveled by sadness and disappointments away from the playing field. It is also the story of behind-the-scenes good humor in clubhouses and what takes place on baseball teams as they live and play together for months at a time, as only Fergie can tell it.

My Cubs
My Cubs

Author: Scott Simon

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-04-11

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 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.

The Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs

Author: Rich Cohen

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 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.

The Cubs
The Cubs

Author: Glenn Stout

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780618595006

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A narrative history of the Chicago Cubs journeys inside the once-successful baseball team that has not won a World Series in nearly one hundred years, bringing together more than two hundred photographs with essays by noted fans and sportswriters.

Game of My Life Chicago Bears
Game of My Life Chicago Bears

Author: Lew Freedman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-11-13

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1613213808

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Since their founding in 1919, the Chicago Bears have carried the hearts and souls of football fans throughout the country. Now supporters of one of the NFL’s most storied franchises will go into the locker room and onto the turf with over twenty Bears legends in Game of My Life Chicago Bears. In this newly revised edition, sportswriter Lew Freedman opens the doors to players’ private remembrances of how it was and how they reacted to the spotlight. Big touchdowns, career-making moments, and championship glory shared all come to the surface for Bears of the past half-century. Readers will hear tales from Hall of Famers such as Dick Butkus, Gale Sayers, Mike Singletary, Stan Jones, and so many more. Within these pages, Chicago gridiron greats offer glimpses of the National Football League in the 1950s, the 1960s, and right up through present-day play. More than sixty years of Bears experience is represented in this collection of tales told by the men who lived through some of the most memorable moments in franchise history.

Game of My Life Chicago Bears
Game of My Life Chicago Bears

Author: Lew Freedman

Publisher: Sports Pub

Published: 2008-05-29

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781596703391

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GAME OF MY LIFE CHICAGO BEARS: Memorable Stories of Bears Football (Se Part of Sports Publishings successful Game of My Life series. Author Lew Freedman interviews approximately 25 players about the game the player considers his most memorable of his Bears career. Includes background information to set the scene, and memories of the game in the players words. Author has written nearly 20 books and currently works for the Chicago Tribune. Original hardcover printing sold 7,397 copies.

Teammate
Teammate

Author: David Ross

Publisher: Hachette Books

Published: 2017-05-09

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0316559423

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Packed with "compelling inside stories" (Chicago Tribune), Teammate is the inspiring memoir from "Grandpa Rossy," the veteran catcher who became the heart and soul of the 2016 Chicago Cubs championship team and was named manager in 2019. In 2016 the Cubs snapped a 108-year curse, winning the World Series in a history-making, seven-game series against the Cleveland Indians. Of the many storylines to Chicago's fairytale season, one stood out: the late-career renaissance of David Ross, the 39-year-old catcher who had played back-up for 13 of his 15 pro seasons. Beyond Ross's remarkably strong play, he became the ultimate positive force in the Cubs locker room, mentoring and motivating his fellow players, some of them nearly twenty years his junior. Thanks to Cubs Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo, "Grandpa Rossy" became a social media sensation. No one, however, could have predicted that Ross's home run in his final career at bat would help seal the Cubs championship. Now, in Teammate, Ross shares the inspiring story of his life in baseball, framed by the events of that unforgettable November night.

The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Time Machine Book
The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Time Machine Book

Author: Martin Gitlin

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-04-01

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1493051792

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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.

Ernie Banks
Ernie Banks

Author: Lew Freedman

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-05-16

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 147666711X

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Ernie Banks is perhaps the most popular ballplayer in the history of the Chicago Cubs--a man as famous for his personality and trademark phrases as for his accomplishments on the field. Nicknamed "Mr. Cub," Banks won two National League Most Valuable Player awards and slugged 512 home runs, all while battling discrimination and poverty. His conduct away from the field was so exemplary he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Based on extensive research and personal interviews conducted by the author, this biography details the life of the Texas-born shortstop and first baseman, from his childhood playing softball to his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame to his death in 2015.