While we all wait for a move, any move, by the Cubs, I have spent some time reading the large pile of unread books that I never had time for during the season. A couple of you already have Glenn...
When I was at the Michael Barrett event last weekend, I overheard someone say something that was both incredibly optimistic and an incredibly sad truth about us as Cubs fans: "In the entire history...
This breezy little book was released just before the season started by the editors of The Heckler. If you don't know what The Heckler is, you'll see it in and around the Wrigleyville area and the...
So. It's Tuesday. Anything interesting happen yesterday? While you're all stewing and mulling and pondering and hyperventilating over the impending sale of Tribune Company, and what it means to the...
Baseball statheads of the world, rejoice. Here is a book just for you. "Behind-the-Scenes Baseball" is written by Doug Decatur, who has been a stat consultant for several teams, including the Cubs,...
Albert G. Spalding, the founder of this company more than 100 years ago, was also a major league baseball player, an executive, and a self-titled impresario who, 117 winters ago, arranged a grand...
With a Cub World Series appearance seemingly farther away than ever these days, I thought it might be fun to read, and share with you, "When Chicago Ruled Baseball", a book about the 1906...
copyright 1973, universal press syndicate That's what Barry Bonds is. Guilty! Guilty, guilty, guilty!! It's so clear (and not "The Clear", one of the "designer steroids" Bonds took as described in...
As today is an off day for Our Heroes, who can bask in their 16-7 win Monday for an extra day, I thought I'd take time out to review "The Last Nine Innings", which I can best describe as "A Lefty's...
Man, did Wrigleyworld make me feel old. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, either. Kevin Kaduk is a twentysomething from the Chicago suburbs, who after college took a job as a sportswriter for...
