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Author: Dan Gordon
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781932594287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChicago 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.
Author: George Ellis
Publisher: Triumph Books
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1600789404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chicago Cubs tradition is one built on spectacular losing streaks and even more spectacular collapses. Yet despite all the losses and disappointments, an amazing thing happens every summer at the corner of Addison and Sheffield: millions of fans flock to Wrigley Field and millions more fans across the country regularly tune in to watch Cubs games broadcast on television. Exactly why Cubs fans support their squad with such reckless abandon isn’t entirely clear—these people represent a remarkable aberration of human psychology, epitomizing the spirit and experience of dedication to a desperate cause. And the whole time, they’re oddly happy. The Cubs Fan’s Guide to Happiness reveals what makes Cubs fans tick and what keeps them happy. It explains why it’s not over until you’re mathematically eliminated, why winning really isn’t everything, and why it’s perfectly acceptable to blame all your trouble on a scapegoat—which may or may not be an actual goat. The fully revised edition also provides educational sidebars, practical applications, and true words of wisdom from celebrity Cubs fans as well as surviving the planned renovations to the product on the field and Wrigley Field itself.
Author: Tom Verducci
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 0804190011
DOWNLOAD EBOOK-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---
Author: L. Jon Wertheim
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0553447408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe executive editor of "Sports Illustrated" and a psychologist join forces to examine the behavior of those involved in professional sports, explaining how athletes can successfully put aside personal trauma on game day and why people love to root for aloser.
Author: Rich Cohen
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2017-10-03
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0374717311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New York Times bestselling author of Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football “knocks it out of the park” (Vanity Fair) in this captivating blend of sports reportage and memoir, exploring the history of the 2016 World Series champions, the Chicago Cubs. When Rich Cohen was eight years old, his father took him to see a Cubs game. On the way out of the park, 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.” Cohen became not just a Cubs fan but one of the biggest Cubs fans in the world. In this book, he captures the story of the team, its players and crazy days. Billy Sunday and Ernie Banks, Three Finger Brown and Ryne Sandberg, Bill Buckner, the Bartman Ball, Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo—the early dominance followed by a 107 year trek across the wilderness. It’s all here, in The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse—not just what happened, but what it felt like and what it meant. Featuring extensive interviews with players, owners, and coaches, this mix of memoir, reporting, history, and baseball theology—forty years in the making—has never been written because it never could be. Only with the 2016 World Series can the true arc of the story finally be understood.
Author: Jimmy Greenfield
Publisher: Triumph Books
Published: 2016-05-01
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1633194779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Cubs fan should know. More than a look at the century-long wait for another World Series win, the book contains crucial information for Cubs fans, such as important dates, player nicknames, memorable moments, and outstanding achievements by singular players. This guide to all things Cubs also includes a list of must-do Cubs-related activities, which include taking in Wrigley field, traveling to Arizona for spring training, and sipping beers at the best Cubs bars around the country.This new, updated edition features the new generation of Cubs stars, including manager Joe Maddon, sluggers Anthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant, and ace Jon Lester.
Author: Phil Rogers
Publisher: Triumph Books
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1617495131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRespected by his baseball peers, beloved by Chicago fans and teammates, Ernie Banks did everything there was to do in the game he loved. Everything, that is, except play in a World Series. How and why that experience eluded him during one season of particular promise—1969—is a key storyline of this fresh look at one of baseball's legendary players. Banks, who had picked cotton outside Dallas as a youth, ascended from a barnstorming semipro team to the major leagues after Kansas City Monarchs manager Buck O'Neil placed him with the Cubs. During his time in Chicago, Banks won two MVPs and received an education far better than the one he received in the segregated schools he'd attended, gaining important life skills while playing the game he was born to play.
Author: Jim Langford
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Published: 2002-10-22
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 146166182X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first in Diamond Communications' Little Book series, The Cubs Fan's Little Book of Wisdom combines history, quotes, facts, and humor and gives fans of the team 101 reasons to laugh, reminisce, and celebrate the game and the team they love.
Author: Sam Pathy
Publisher: Sports Publishing
Published: 2017-04-11
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781683580119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSo You Think You’re a Chicago Cubs Fan? tests and expands your knowledge of Cubs baseball. Rather than merely posing questions and providing answers, you’ll get details behind each—stories that bring to life players and coaches, games and seasons. This book is divided into multiple parts, with progressively more difficult questions in each new section. Along the way, you’ll learn more about Wrigley Field and the great Cub players and coaches of the past and present, from Billy Herman to Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams, Dave Kingman, Andre Dawson, Fergie Jenkins, Ryne Sandberg, Dennis Eckersley, Greg Maddux, Kerry Wood, Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo, Jake Arrieta, and so many more. Some of the many questions that this book answers include: What was the original name of Wrigley Field when it opened in 1914? On what date did the Cubs play their first Wrigley Field night game? Which Cubs stalwart said, “I didn’t practice singing. I didn’t want to get on key?” In 1992, who were the first four players elected by fans into the Cubs Walk of Fame? In what year did the Cubs become the first team to reach .500 ten times through twenty games? This book makes the perfect gift for any fan of the Cubbies!
Author: Ray Walker
Publisher:
Published: 2020-09-07
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781953563033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalling all Chicago Cubs fans! The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Trivia Book is a staple for anyone who loves baseball, sports trivia, and the Cubbies. You will be tested on your knowledge of mind-blowing facts from the early days of the franchise all the way to the Cubs' first World Series win in over a century. Within these pages, you will find answers to over 350 trivia questions as well as hundreds of interesting facts, including: David Ross was the first MLB contestant on which reality competition show? On December 13, 2010, the Canada Post announced that Fergie Jenkins would be honored with his own postage stamp to celebrate Black History Month. The stamp was issued in February 2011. Former Cub Andre Dawson now owns and operates a ________ in Miami, Florida. (Spoiler alert: It's not somewhere you want to visit.) Which country's team did Anthony Rizzo play for in the 2013 World Baseball Classic? Which Cubs player was named World Series MVP in 2016? Whether you're a lifelong Cubs fan or are simply looking to hit one out of the park on MLB Trivia Night at your local bar, The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Trivia Book is a grand slam.
