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The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs is a decade-by-decade have a look at certainly one of baseball’s most beloved if hard-luck teams, starting with the franchise’s beginnings in 1876 as the Chicago White Stockings and ending with the triumphant 2016 World Series championship.
For more than a century, the
Chicago Tribune has documented each Cubs season through original reporting, photography, and box scores. For the first time, this mountain of Cubs history has been mined and curated by the paper’s sports department into a single one-of-a-kind volume. Every era in Cubs history includes its own timeline, profiles of key players and coaches, and feature stories that highlight it all, from the heavy hitters to the no-hitters to the one-hit wonders.And of course, you’ll’t talk about the Cubs without talking about Wrigley Field. On this book, readers will find a complete history of that most sacred of American stadiums, where Hack Wilson batted in 191 runs—still the major-league record—in 1930, where Sammy Sosa earned the moniker “Slammin’ Sammy,” and where fans congregated, even if the team used to be at the road, all the way through its scintillating championship run.
The award-winning journalists, photographers, and editors of the
Chicago Tribune have produced a comprehensive collector’s item that each Cubs fan will love.
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