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The Chicago Cubs : story of a curse / Rich Cohen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017Edition: First EditionDescription: x, 273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374120924 (Hardcover)
  • 0374120927 (Hardcover)
Subject(s):
Contents:
"There's no rooting in the press box" -- "Don't hate on '08" -- 1060 West Addison Street -- Big shoulders, tiny feet -- Year of the goat -- The wilderness -- The chemo coach -- The red line -- The big question -- What is the sound of one Cubs fan not clapping? -- Got milk? Got pot. -- Go Cubs go! -- Post-season -- World Series! -- Game seven -- Afterward.
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 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.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 796.357 C678 Available 33111008965978
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The New York Time s 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269).

"There's no rooting in the press box" -- "Don't hate on '08" -- 1060 West Addison Street -- Big shoulders, tiny feet -- Year of the goat -- The wilderness -- The chemo coach -- The red line -- The big question -- What is the sound of one Cubs fan not clapping? -- Got milk? Got pot. -- Go Cubs go! -- Post-season -- World Series! -- Game seven -- Afterward.

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.

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