The Curse Ends The Story Of The 2016 Chicago Cubs
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The Curse Ends
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Author : Jeff Attinella
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-04-28
The Curse Ends written by Jeff Attinella and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-28 with Baseball categories.
This epic tale tells the story of the 108 years of heartbreak, the infamous Curse of the Billy Goat and the monumental return to glory as World Series Champions in 2016! This story is told in rhyming couplets with exceptional illustrations that will captivate readers of all ages.
The Curse Ends The Story Of The 2016 Chicago Cubs
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Author : Jeff Attinella
language : en
Publisher: It Had To Be Told Publishing, LLC.
Release Date : 2017-09-28
The Curse Ends The Story Of The 2016 Chicago Cubs written by Jeff Attinella and has been published by It Had To Be Told Publishing, LLC. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-28 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Growing up, I was all about sports - football, soccer, baseball, you name it. If it wasn’t sports related, I wasn’t interested. My love for sports is a passion that has shaped my entire life. I am fortunate to play soccer for a living, but it’s bigger than that. My most cherished childhood memories are centered around watching a big game; my relationship with my wife sparked by a mutual love for Penn State football, and my passion for Tampa Bay sports keeps me close to home, even though we’ve moved all over the country. I owe so much of my life to sports. The idea to tell these stories came about after the birth of my daughter, Remy. I wanted to create a vehicle that I could share my love of sports with her, in a way that would hopefully build a bond we’d share forever. Reading together provides a way for parents and their children to share in special moments, but I want these stories to do even more. I want to reach the kids like me, the ones more likely to grab a ball than a book. It is so important for a growing mind to fall in love with reading and I hope these stories can bridge a love for sports with a newfound passion for reading. Mike Pascale (mikepascale.com) is a storyboardist, artist, writer, comic book creator (Bru-Hed), and former award-winning ad agency copywriter/senior art director. Between storyboarding films and drawing this children’s book, he writes and draws the world’s longest-running football webcomic, “Game BUZZ!,” every week at gamebuzzcomic.com. A Californian born and raised in metro Detroit, he had a lot to learn about the Cubs, and found all of it fascinating, frustrating, fun, funny, interesting and incredible. He only hopes he was able to entertain Cubs fans and do justice to their team’s titanic tale—and that we don’t wait another century for their next well-deserved WS win! GO CUBBIES!
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.
Murphy S Ticket
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Author : Brad Herzog
language : en
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Release Date : 2017-07-15
Murphy S Ticket written by Brad Herzog and has been published by Sleeping Bear Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-15 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
For 108 years, fans of Chicago Cubs baseball suffered every playofff season, with mishap after mishap each being traced back to 1945 when a friendly goat was kicked out of a World Series game. But the 2016 season felt different. Would this finally be the year that the Billy Goat Curse was reversed? Author Brad Herzog tells the story of the curse's origin and follows the Cubs right through that fateful November night in 2016 when the Cubbies could finally fly the "W."
The Cubs Way
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Author : Tom Verducci
language : en
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Release Date : 2017-03-28
The Cubs Way written by Tom Verducci and has been published by Crown Archetype this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-28 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The New York Times Bestseller With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their epic journey to become World Series champions. It took 108 years, but it really happened. The Chicago Cubs are once again World Series champions. How did a team composed of unknown, young players and supposedly washed-up veterans come together to break the Curse of the Billy Goat? Tom Verducci, twice named National Sportswriter of the Year and co-writer of The Yankee Years with Joe Torre, will have full access to team president Theo Epstein, manager Joe Maddon, and the players to tell the story of the Cubs' transformation from perennial underachievers to the best team in baseball. Beginning with Epstein's first year with the team in 2011, Verducci will show how Epstein went beyond "Moneyball" thinking to turn around the franchise. Leading the organization with a manual called "The Cubs Way," he focused on the mental side of the game as much as the physical, emphasizing chemistry as well as statistics. To accomplish his goal, Epstein needed manager Joe Maddon, an eccentric innovator, as his counterweight on the Cubs' bench. A man who encourages themed road trips and late-arrival game days to loosen up his team, Maddon mixed New Age thinking with Old School leadership to help his players find their edge. The Cubs Way takes readers behind the scenes, chronicling how key players like Rizzo, Russell, Lester, and Arrieta were deftly brought into the organization by Epstein and coached by Maddon to outperform expectations. Together, Epstein and Maddon proved that clubhouse culture is as important as on-base-percentage, and that intangible components like personality, vibe, and positive energy are necessary for a team to perform to their fullest potential. Verducci chronicles the playoff run that culminated in an instant classic Game Seven. He takes a broader look at the history of baseball in Chicago and the almost supernatural element to the team's repeated loses that kept fans suffering, but also served to strengthen their loyalty. The Cubs Way is a celebration of an iconic team and its journey to a World Championship that fans and readers will cherish for years to come.
The End Of The Curse
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Author : William Stanish
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-07
The End Of The Curse written by William Stanish and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-07 with Baseball categories.
In this unique and engaging book, author William Stanish recounts the drama of Game 7 of the 2016 World Series in which the Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians to end a string of more than 100 years without a World Series championship. The account is poetic in nature, after the style of ¿Casey at the Bat,¿ with full-page color photographs illustrating the poem and the highlights of the game.The book is essentially the equivalent of a short story (41 pages), told with poetry and photos, of how the Chicago Cubs broke the ¿curse¿ to win Game 7, one of the most exciting World Series games ever played.The poem, ¿The End of the Curse,¿ is reminiscent of the classic baseball poem, ¿Casey at the Bat,¿ written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. Not only do the poems have a similar rhythm, but they both focus on the drama of a single baseball game, and they both pay particular attention to the emotions of the spectators and viewers.In ¿The End of the Curse,¿ Stanish tells the story of Game 7 from the point of view of Cubs fans. Like ¿Casey at the Bat,¿ the poem is focused on the ¿home¿ team, with no mention of players on the opposing team. That reflects the notion that the battle against Cleveland was perhaps overshadowed by the battle against the ¿curse,¿ and the fear that fans would, once again, have to ¿wait till next year.¿In addition to covering the on-field drama, the author explores the psychological struggles of the fans as their emotions alternated among confidence, fear, hope, despair, and finally, jubilation. He also takes a fanciful look at the ¿curse¿ itself, and speculates on its own fear, its own nemesis, and what might have contributed to its own demise.The book provides a lasting memento of the Cubs' 2016 World Series championship, with a rich artistic and visual experience. And it provides an opportunity for fans of all ages to relive the events and the emotions of Game 7 with a poetic flair that will never grow old.
The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Time Machine Book
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Author : Martin Gitlin
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-04-01
The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Time Machine Book written by Martin Gitlin and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Time Machine presents a timeline format that not only includes the Cubs’ greatest moments—including their World Series appearance in 2016 and individual achievements—but also focuses on some very unusual seasons and events, such as the 1872 season when the Great Chicago Fire destroyed their stadium and uniforms. There are dozens of impressive, wild, wacky, and wonderful stories over the years regarding Cubs history, and Gitlin is the perfect person to write it with his trademark humor and thorough knowledge of team lore.
Da Curse Of The Billy Goat
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Author : Steve Gatto
language : en
Publisher: Protar House, LLC
Release Date : 2004
Da Curse Of The Billy Goat written by Steve Gatto and has been published by Protar House, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with World Series (Baseball) categories.
History and discussion of the legendary Curse of the Billy Goat, the Chicago Cubs' pennant races and World Series games, and baseball's curses.
Murphy
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Author : Stanley Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2022-03-09
Murphy written by Stanley Phillips and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-09 with categories.
Murphy: Billy Goat Curse - Or, how the Chicago Cubs won the 2016 World Series (This short story can also be found in Sports Legends - Or, how the Chicago Cubs won the 2016 World Series) "Them Cubs, they ain't gonna win no more." In 1945, when Frain's army of ushers heard those infamous words, they had no idea that it was Murphy 'the goat' that placed the curse on the Cubs, and not his owner Billy Sianis. By 2016, the Chicago Cubs had not been to a World Series since 1945. Some say it was due to the "Billy Goat Curse." Unbeknownst to them, the only way for the curse to be lifted was for someone to apologize to Murphy for being tossed out of Wrigley Field during the fourth game of the 1945 Fall Classic. Even those who might fantasize over the possibility of the curse being waged over a silly insult to a goat, they had to realize there was no way break the curse. Murphy had been dead for many years, and why would anyone apologize to a dead goat. From somewhere, far beyond this earth, someone took pity on the poor Cub fans plight. In the spirit of "Fair Play" Murphy armed with the power of speech, is forced to leave his place of rest to return to the world of the living. He is to lift the curse in time to allow the Cubs during the Fall Classic. Otherwise, he will be allowed to return to his resting place. Difficulty arises when Murphy declares he will not lift the curse unless he gets an apology. In need of earthly assistance, Murphy goes to the Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago. It is there he meets Daniel, a troubled young man, who just doesn't know how to better himself. Right from the start Murphy and Daniel butts much to the distress of Sara the young man's wife. Thinking, her husband has gone mad, she leaves him alone in hopes he would straighten himself out. She has no idea that Murphy is not an ordinary goat. In the end, both Murphy and Daniel work out their differences in order to arrive at a happy conclusion for all concerned in this delightful tale.
Teammate
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Author : David Ross
language : en
Publisher: Hachette Books
Release Date : 2017-05-09
Teammate written by David Ross and has been published by Hachette Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER Packed with "compelling inside stories" (Chicago Tribune), Teammate is the inspiring memoir from "Grandpa Rossy," the veteran catcher who became the heart and soul of the 2016 Chicago Cubs championship team. In 2016 the Cubs snapped a 108-year curse, winning the World Series in a history-making, seven-game series against the Cleveland Indians. Of the many storylines to Chicago's fairytale season, one stood out: the late-career renaissance of David Ross, the 39-year-old catcher who had played back-up for 13 of his 15 pro seasons. Beyond Ross's remarkably strong play, he became the ultimate positive force in the Cubs locker room, mentoring and motivating his fellow players, some of them nearly twenty years his junior. Thanks to Cubs Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo, "Grandpa Rossy" became a social media sensation. No one, however, could have predicted that Ross's home run in his final career at bat would help seal the Cubs championship. Now, in Teammate, Ross shares the inspiring story of his life in baseball, framed by the events of that unforgettable November night.