My Summer As A Cub
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My Summer As A Cub
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Author : R. Rathbone Leonard
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-09-22
My Summer As A Cub written by R. Rathbone Leonard and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-22 with Fiction categories.
Lenny Puddock writes of his experiences as a Chicago Cub during the 2011 baseball season. Puddock is a 32-year-old physical therapist for the Indianapolis National Institute of Fitness and Health who attended Randy Hundleys Fantasy Camp. Part of the Fantasy Camp experience is his developing friendship with Gertrude Castellano, a waitress who becomes a singing star. They romance at a distance. Puddock is invited to the Cubs Spring Training after an outstanding performance at the Camp. The Cubs offer him a contract with the Daytona Class A team and he accepts. Puddock is moved up to Class AA Tennessee in mid-May and is called up to the Cubs in mid-July. He was batting .378. In mid-August Mike Quade resigns as manager. Ryne Sandberg, who had an escape clause in his contract with a Phillies Minor League team, becomes the Cubs manager. When Puddock joined the parent club, the Cubs were 10 games out of first place. By the end of August they are four from the Wild Card spot. In the waning days of August the roster was two short due to injuries. Sandberg did not want to disrupt the Iowa or Tennessee playoff-bound teams, so he activated Greg Maddux and himself, thinking the roster had to contain the maximum 25 players. Plans were to activate two players before the August 31 midnight deadline but due to an interns goof not recognizing the difference in Eastern Standard Time and Central Standard Time, the move came too late. In essence the Cubs would have only a 23-player Post-Season roster. The Cubs win their Division and League playoffs and enter World Series for the first time in 76 years. In an amazing ninth inning of the seventh game, the Cubs win the Series.
Cub S First Summer
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Author : Hinkler Books Pty, Limited
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Cub S First Summer written by Hinkler Books Pty, Limited and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Foxes categories.
The Chicago Cubs
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Author : Rich Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2017-10-03
The Chicago Cubs written by Rich Cohen and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A captivating blend of reportage and memoir exploring the history of 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.” As a result, 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—not just what happened, but what it felt like and what it meant. He searches for the cause of the famous curse. Was it the billy goat, kicked out of Wrigley Field in Game 5 of the 1945 World Series, or does it go back further, to the very origins of the franchise? Driven mad with futility, he went on the road with the team in search of answers, interviewed great players present and past, researched in libraries but also in the bleachers, double-fisted, a frosty malt in each hand, demanding answers. He came to see the curse as a burden but also as a blessing. Cubs fans are unique, emissaries from a higher realm, warning of hubris and vanity. The blue cap with the red C said, “My Kingdom is not of this world.” He interviewed the architects of the 2016 Cubs, the team that broke the curse. Here’s what he asked: How the hell did you do it? He was at (almost) every game of the 2016 playoff run—a run that culminated in (maybe) the single greatest baseball game ever played. He was excited but also terrified. Losing is easy. What would it mean to win? Wearing a Yankees hat meant corporate excellence. Wearing a Mets hat meant miracles. But wearing a Cubs hat meant loving the game on its most humdrum afternoon—September 13, 1979, say, 14 games out of first place, Larry Bittner driving in Ivan DeJesus. Would we lose that? Would being a Cubs become ordinary? A mix of memoir, reporting, history and baseball theology, this book, 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.
The Fox Cub Bold
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Author : Colin Dann
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-07-29
The Fox Cub Bold written by Colin Dann and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-29 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
'He saw on man raise his weapon and take aim at him... and, the next instant, felt a fierce sear of pain in his right thigh...' The fox cub Bold has left the sheltered life of the nature reserve determined to make his way in the world. But, exulting in his new-found freedom, he becomes reckless. And now he lies badly wounded by a hunter's bullet. Can Bold survive - lamed and unable to hunt - in the harsh environment of the real world he so eagerly entered? Winter is coming and friends are hard to find . . .
The Summer Game
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Author : Roger Angell
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2004-03-01
The Summer Game written by Roger Angell and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The author shares his funny, insightful vision into the game of baseball, discussing a wide variety of topics, from the birth of the Mets and the classic Pirates vs. Orioles 1971 World Series to the great players in the 1960s and 1970s. Reprint.
The Franchise Chicago Cubs
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Author : Bruce Miles
language : en
Publisher: Triumph Books
Release Date : 2023-06-20
The Franchise Chicago Cubs written by Bruce Miles and has been published by Triumph Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-20 with Travel categories.
In The Franchise: Chicago Cubs, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of an iconic team. This thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the astute fans' history of the franchise, going beyond well-worn narratives of yesteryear to uncover the less-discussed moments, decisions, people, and settings that fostered the Cubs' one-of-a-kind identity. Through wheeling and dealing, mythmaking and community building, explore where the organization has been, how it got to prominence in the modern major league landscape, and how it'll continue to evolve and stay in contention for generations to come.Cubs fans in the know will enjoy this personal, local, in-depth look at baseball history.
Cub S First Winter
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Author : Rebecca Elliott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10
Cub S First Winter written by Rebecca Elliott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10 with categories.
It was the first day of winter and Cub could not sleep. "OK," said Mom."One more forest walk before bed. Come on¿" Children will love to join Cub as he experiences his first winter in this heartwarming bedtime story.
Waiting For The Cubs
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Author : Floyd Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
Waiting For The Cubs written by Floyd Sullivan and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This is a memoir of a diehard--a diehard fan who drove himself and his family half crazy to get to Cubs games that were 700 miles away from their home. Along the way Sullivan recounts the history of Cubs baseball, including events from the 1908 season, as well as reminiscences from other fans and stories of his own experience following a team that has gone more than a century without attaining that final win that would make them world champions.
The Chicago Cubs
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Author : Warren N. Wilbert
language : en
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Release Date : 1997
The Chicago Cubs written by Warren N. Wilbert and has been published by Sports Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Readers will enjoy reviewing the best seasons in Cubs history in Season at the Summit. The Chicago White Stockings, later to become Wrigleyville's loveable Cubbies, were charter members of the National League, and the only franchise that has operated continuously in the same city between the first game played on April 1876 and today. During that time, over 1,750 ballplayers have pulled on Cub uniforms, and out of that number, co-authors Warren Wilbert and William Hageman have chosen the players who have put together individual seasons of such magnificent that they have merited a top-50 billing.
My Cubs
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Author : Scott Simon
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-04-11
My Cubs written by Scott Simon and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-11 with Sports & Recreation categories.
NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured—and now triumphant—franchise. Heartbreak and hope. Charmed and haunted. My Cubs is Scott Simon’s love letter to his Chicago Cubs, World Series winners for the first time in over a century. Replete with personal reflections, club lore, memorable anecdotes, and tales of frenetic fandom, My Cubs recounts the franchise’s pivotal moments with the wise and adoring intimacy of a long-suffering devotee and Chicago native. Simon illustrates how the condition of “Cubness” has defined the life of so many Chicagoans and how the team’s fortunes became intertwined with the aspirations of its faithful. With the curse finally broken on November 2, 2016, My Cubs is the perfect portrayal of paradise lost and found.