All Cub fans know from heartbreak and curse-toting goats. Fewer know that, prior to moving to the north side in 1916, the team fielded powerhouse nines that regularly claimed the pennant. <i>Before the Ivy</i> offers a grandstand seat to a golden age: <p>BEHOLD the 1871 team as it plays for the titl
Mr. Wrigley's ball club: Chicago & the Cubs during the jazz age
β Scribed by ebrary, Inc.;Ehrgott, Roberts
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 512
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Machine generated contents note: 1.The Capital of Baseball -- 2.Samples of Baseball -- 3.The Age of Wilson Begins -- 4.The McCarthymen Take the Stage -- 5.My Dad the Sportswriter -- 6.To Paradise and Back -- 7."A Sort of Frenzy" -- 8.McCarthy's Debacle -- 9."I Wanted Wilson" -- 10.The Prime of Mr. Hack Wilson -- 11."A Lousy Outfield" -- 12.Room 509 -- 13.Informants -- 14."Nothing to It" -- 15."No Particular Pal of Mine" -- 16."That Story Is Terrible, Judge" -- 17.The Natural -- 18."Mugs ... Chiselers".
β¦ Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.The Capital of Baseball --
2.Samples of Baseball --
3.The Age of Wilson Begins --
4.The McCarthymen Take the Stage --
5.My Dad the Sportswriter --
6.To Paradise and Back --
7."A Sort of Frenzy" --
8.McCarthy's Debacle --
9."I Wanted Wilson" --
10.The Prime of Mr. Hack Wilson --
11."A Lousy Outfield" --
12.Room 509 --
13.Informants --
14."Nothing to It" --
15."No Particular Pal of Mine" --
16."That Story Is Terrible, Judge" --
17.The Natural --
18."Mugs ... Chiselers".
β¦ Subjects
Manners and customs;History;Chicago Cubs (Baseball team) -- History;Chicago (Ill.) -- Socail life and customs;Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century;Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs;Chicago Cubs (Baseball team);Illinois -- Chicago
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
A riveting historical thriller about a Jewish cigarette girl in 1930s New York who finds the soldier who burned down her Russian village years earlier only to be swept up in a political conspiracy on the eve of World War IIβfrom the #1 bestselling author of The Midwife of Venice. New York, 1939 Gi
<B>A riveting historical thriller about a Jewish cigarette girl in 1930s New York who finds the soldier who burned down her Russian village years earlier only to be swept up in a political conspiracy on the eve of World War IIβfrom the #1 bestselling author of <I>The Midwife of Venice</I>.</B> <i>N