· For celebrated sportwriter Peter Golenbock, Wrigleyville is a symbol of America's fidelity to its greatest sport. As he did with classics of sports literature, Bums (a history of the Brooklyn Dodgers) and Dynasty (a history of the New York Yankees), Golenbock turns to a team that has won and broken the hearts of generations of fans; the Chicago Cubs.4/5. 7 rows · For baseball fans, Wrigleyville means green grass and ivied walls, long summer afternoons in the Author: Peter Golenbock. So the subtitle A Magical History Tour of the Chicago Cubs is a more accurate title of this book. Some reviews complain that there is not enough coverage of the more recent www.doorway.ru I have read Cub histories and other team histories that seem to elaborate on the more recent- what is more familiar. This book contains pages of text. It starts the Cubs History from through the early 's. This Cited by: 6.
An okay history of the hapless but beloved Chicago Cubs, a baseball team that hasn't won a World Series since or played in one since Though this takes the form of an oral history, Golenbock (Wild, High and Tight: The Life and Death of Billy Martin, , etc.) has to borrow heavily from long-published sources to tell the story of the early years, starting with Albert Spalding's Wrigleyville: A Magical History Tour of the Chicago Cubs by Peter Golenbock. Fodor's Baseball Vacations, 3rd Edition: Great Family Trips to Minor League and Classic Major League Ballparks Across America by Bruce Adams and Margaret Engel. The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip: A Fan's Guide to Major League Stadiums by Joshua Pahigian and Kevin O'Connell. A mecca for baseball fans, a Chicago landmark, and the heart of "Wrigleyville," fabled Wrigley Field originated in as home of the Chicago Whales in the short-lived Federal League. When that league folded in , owner Charles Weeghman bought the National League Chicago Cubs, moving them from the West Side to his new ballpark at Clark and Addison Streets.
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