Author : Bob Vorwald
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1633191117
Cubs Forever celebrates the 60-year romance between the team, the superstation, and the fans. It brings to life some of the great games and moments in the team's history, such as Ernie Banks' 500th home run, the first night game at Wrigley Field, and four no-hitters. Add in stories from the men who work behind the scenes at Wrigley and WGN, plus interviews with the team's many stars over this six-decade period, and you have a baseball bonanza for fans of all ages.
Author : L. Jon Wertheim
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1328637247
A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports The summer of 1984 was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player to professional athlete and star. That summer also saw ESPN's rise to media dominance as the country's premier sports network and the first modern, commercialized, profitable Olympics. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's rivalry raged, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe reigned in tennis, and Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon made pro wrestling a business, while Donald Trump pierced the national consciousness as a pro football team owner. It was an awakening in the sports world, a moment when sports began to morph into the market-savvy, sensationalized, moneyed, controversial, and wildly popular arena we know today. In the tradition of Bill Bryson's One Summer: America, 1927, L. Jon Wertheim captures these 90 seminal days against the backdrop of the nostalgia-soaked 1980s, to show that this was the year we collectively traded in our ratty Converses for a pair of sleek, heavily branded, ingeniously marketed Nikes. This was the year that sports went big-time.
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Publisher : Skybox Press
Page : pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2016-12-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780996455329
World Champion Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series Commemorative Book
Author : George Castle
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1629688177
Inside MLB profiles each of the 30 franchises in Major League Baseball. Chicago Cubs is a beginner's history of the Cubs, covering the beginnings of the franchise, the greatest and lowest moments of the team, and the best players and managers. Fun facts, anecdotes, and sidebars round out the story of each club, allowing your readers to get Inside MLB! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Carrie Muskat
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1641255897
The Big 50: Chicago Cubs is an extensive and dynamic look at the 50 top moments and figures that make the Cubs the Cubs Longtime MLB scribe Carrie Muskat recounts the living history of the team. Learn about and revisit the remarkable stories, featuring greats like Ernie Banks, Ryne Sandberg, Ron Santo, Anthony Rizzo, and more. With dozens of interviews compiled over years of intimate access to the team, this is the perfect primer for new Cubs fans and an essential addition to a seasoned fan's collection. The Big 50 series take a deep dive into the fifty best figures and historical moments that make a team. Other Big 50 titles on Chicago sports include: The Big 50: Chicago Bears The Big 50: Chicago Blackhawks
Author : Les Krantz
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1623686695
Originally called Weeghman Park, Wrigley Field hosted its first game in 1914, and the 2014 season marks the 100th anniversary of baseball's second oldest ballpark. In Wrigley Field: The Centennial, Les Krantz tells the story of Wrigley's first 100 years—from the origins of the ivy on the outfield walls and ballpark traditions such as throwing back home run balls to Ruth's called shot in the 1933 World Series and unforgettable moments featuring stars Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams, Ryne Sandberg, Greg Maddux, and more. Featuring numerous photographs, Wrigley's first century is beautifully documented and an originally produced DVD narrated by Lou Boudreau Jr. and Ron Santo Jr. features footage from throughout the stadium's history and interviews with Jack Brickhouse, Ron Santo, Ernie Banks, and others.
Author : Candace Fleming
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823443183
Fred and Helen Martini longed for a baby, and they ended up with dozens of lion and tiger cubs! Snuggle up to this purr-fect read aloud about the Bronx Zoo's first female zoo-keeper. When Bronx Zoo-keeper Fred brought home a lion cub, Helen Martini instantly embraced it. The cub's mother lost the instinct to care for him. "Just do for him what you would do with a human baby," Fred suggested...and she did. Helen named him MacArthur, and fed him milk from a bottle and cooed him to sleep in a crib. Soon enough, MacArthur was not the only cub bathed in the tub! The couple continues to raise lion and tiger cubs as their own, until they are old enough to return them to zoos. Helen becomes the first female zookeeper at the Bronx zoo, the keeper of the nursery. This is a terrific non-fiction book to read aloud while snuggling up with your cubs! Filled with adorable baby cats, this is a story about love, dedication, and a new kind of family. Gorgeously patterned illustrations by Julie Downing detail the in-home nursery and a warm pallet creates a cozy pairing with Candace Fleming's lovely language. Backmatter includes a short biography of Helen Martini and a selected bibliography. A Junior Library Guild Selection A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year Named to the Texas Topaz Reading List
Author : Glenn Stout
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780618595006
A narrative history of the Chicago Cubs journeys inside the once-successful baseball team that has not won a World Series in nearly one hundred years, bringing together more than two hundred photographs with essays by noted fans and sportswriters.
Author : Raysa Farah
Publisher : Amazon Marketing Hub
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1915942063
The cub without a mane is a children's empowerment story book. It is based on a lion cub who's pride and possession is his wild curly mane and of course his magnificent roar. Cub falls poorly and comes to learn that he has leukaemia which causes him to feel rather unwell. Whilst the doctors have him on the mend cub loses his head of curly locks and worries that he won't be liked by his friends...and most importantly to him be able to roar anymore.
Author : Dan McNeil
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0762439238
Chicago sports fans are the most passionate, knowledgeable, and dedicated in the country. Now, the Windy City's top sports-radio jock and a longtime native sportswriter engage this phenomenon with a compilation of informative and entertaining lists sure to stir up dialogue and debate within the buzzing Chicago sports scene. With original contributions from top Chicago sports and entertainment personalities such as Norm Van Lier, Bill Wennington, Dan Jiggetts, Pat Hughes, Len Kasper, John McDonough, Mike North, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, and many more, this is a must-have reference and entertaining read for all jocks, wannabes, haters, dreamers, and died-in-the-wool Chicago sports fans.
