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My Summer as a Cub

Author : R. Rathbone Leonard
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456794118

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My Summer as a Cub by R. Rathbone Leonard Pdf

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 Winter

Author : Rebecca Elliott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1950416364

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Cub's First Winter by Rebecca Elliott Pdf

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.

The Chicago Cubs

Author : Rich Cohen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780374717315

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The Chicago Cubs by Rich Cohen Pdf

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.

Ernie Banks

Author : Phil Rogers
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617495137

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Ernie Banks by Phil Rogers Pdf

Respected by his baseball peers, beloved by Chicago fans and teammates, Ernie Banks did everything there was to do in the game he loved. Everything, that is, except play in a World Series. How and why that experience eluded him during one season of particular promise—1969—is a key storyline of this fresh look at one of baseball's legendary players. Banks, who had picked cotton outside Dallas as a youth, ascended from a barnstorming semipro team to the major leagues after Kansas City Monarchs manager Buck O'Neil placed him with the Cubs. During his time in Chicago, Banks won two MVPs and received an education far better than the one he received in the segregated schools he'd attended, gaining important life skills while playing the game he was born to play.

The Fox Cub Bold

Author : Colin Dann
Publisher : Random House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781446478950

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The Fox Cub Bold by Colin Dann Pdf

'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

Author : Roger Angell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803259514

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The Summer Game by Roger Angell Pdf

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

Author : Bruce Miles,Jesse Rogers
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781637273425

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The Franchise: Chicago Cubs by Bruce Miles,Jesse Rogers Pdf

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.

Waiting for the Cubs

Author : Floyd Sullivan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786456871

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Waiting for the Cubs by Floyd Sullivan Pdf

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

Author : Warren N. Wilbert,William Hageman
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1571671102

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The Chicago Cubs by Warren N. Wilbert,William Hageman Pdf

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

Author : Scott Simon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780735218048

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My Cubs by Scott Simon Pdf

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.

For the Love of Cub Scouts

Author : David Levesque
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781491805398

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For the Love of Cub Scouts by David Levesque Pdf

Wm. David Levesque was asked to become the next Cubmaster, soon after his son Josh joined the Cub Scouts as a Tiger Cub. In this unofficial guide, he shares how the pack tripled in size by engaging over 90% of the families to deliver both fun and program to the Scouts. In an easy to read style, he shares his experience on topics you will need to address to build a stronger pack your Scouts will love in only an hour a week. Cub Scout Program Basics Pack Structure Pack Program Planning Budgets and Fund-Raising Recruiting Scouts Developing Volunteers Program Ideas Running a Pack Valuable Resources More Scouting has provided my life many special moments, new friends and the satisfaction of working for a larger purpose. It is my fondest wish that you will find such value in your Scouting experience as well. In the end, it is about the Scouts perhaps one very close and dear to you -Wm. David Levesque

A Chosen Bullet

Author : Bill Renje
Publisher : Ambassador International
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781935507451

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A Chosen Bullet by Bill Renje Pdf

A Chosen Bullet is the story of what Bill's passion as a Chicago sports fan has taught him in life and the struggles this passion helped him to overcome from the day a 9mm bullet ripped through his neck from five feet away. Bill's life has been contrasted by deep darkness and then glorious light, characterized by overcoming through perseverance, stained by first underachieving and then finally experiencing success that few will ever know. A bottomed-out permanently paralyzed teenager becomes a two-time Paralympic gold medalist, a very happily married man, a blessed father of three children, and a successful businessman. With the support of family and eventually a deep-abiding Christian faith providing his foundation, these values and lessons intertwining with Bill's thirty-three year journey as a Chicago fan take him from tragedy to triumph.

Game of My Life Chicago Cubs

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781613213124

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Game of My Life Chicago Cubs by Lew Freedman Pdf

Whether they wore white stockings or blue helmets, the baseball players of Chicago’s North Side have always had great stories to tell. Now fans of this loveable franchise will finally get to hear from twenty-eight of the best players as they relive that singular moment which defined their Cubs career. In this newly updated edition of Game of My Life Chicago Cubs, veteran sportswriter Lew Freedman brings readers off the bench and onto the field with such greats as Billy Williams, Ernie Banks, Ferguson Jenkins, and more.

The Missing Cub

Author : Darcy Fast,Jonathan Kravetz
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781604772777

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The Missing Cub by Darcy Fast,Jonathan Kravetz Pdf

Darcy Fast had a left arm like a bolt of lightning and a calm, confident demeanor. He played with Hall of Famers Ernie Banks, Ferguson Jenkins, and Billy Williams. On the way to fulfilling his childhood dream, he came to realize there was more to life than sport. (Practical Life)

Cubs Forever

Author : Bob Vorwald
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781600780448

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Cubs Forever by Bob Vorwald Pdf

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.