Herzog, Brad

Summary: For 108 years, fans of Chicago Cubs baseball suffered every playofff season, with mishap after mishap each being traced back to 1945 when a friendly goat was kicked out of a World Series game. But the 2016 season felt different. Would this finally be the year that the Billy Goat Curse was reversed? Author Brad Herzog tells the story of the curse's origin and follows the Cubs right through that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HER

Cohen, Rich

Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

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Cohen, Rich

Summary: For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the Chicago Cubs have always been more than a team: they've been the protagonists of a King Arthur epic, in search of the Holy Grail that is winning the World Series. A chronicle of the last few miraculous seasons as experienced through the prism of Cubs history, The Chicago Cubs tracks the famous curse, which was placed on the team in 1945 by the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017

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Will, George F.

Summary: Chronicling a century of highs and lows at Wrigley Field, a leading columnist explores the home of the hapless Chicago Cubs in relation to his upbringing, the growth of Chicago, the history of baseball, and the nature of sports fandom.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 WIL