Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Although the Chicago Cubs have not won a World Series title since 1908, they and the friendly confines of Wrigley Field have enjoyed the devotion of baseball enthusiasts throughout America for generations. This is a collection of writing on the Cubs, taken from books, magazines and newspapers, together with essays by literary figures. Added to this revised and expanded edition is a selection from Bleacher - A Summer in Wrigley by Lonnie Wheeler, as well as work by Bill Veeck and D.H.Fleming.

The Cubs Reader

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Ray Walker

California

A Collection of Amazing Trivia Quizzes and Fun Facts for Die-Hard Cubs Fans!

Calling all Chicago Cubs fans! The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Trivia Book is a staple for anyone who loves baseball, sports trivia, and the Cubbies. You will be tested on your knowledge of mind-blowing facts from the early days of the franchise all the way to the Cubs' first World Series win in over a century. Within these pages, you will find answers to over 350 trivia questions as well as hundreds of interesting facts, including: David Ross was the first MLB contestant on which reality competition show? On December 13, 2010, the Canada Post announced that Fergie Jenkins would be honored with his own postage stamp to celebrate Black History Month. The stamp was issued in February 2011. Former Cub Andre Dawson now owns and operates a ________ in Miami, Florida. (Spoiler alert: It's not somewhere you want to visit.) Which country's team did Anthony Rizzo play for in the 2013 World Baseball Classic? Which Cubs player was named World Series MVP in 2016? Whether you're a lifelong Cubs fan or are simply looking to hit one out of the park on MLB Trivia Night at your local bar, The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Trivia Book is a grand slam.

The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Trivia Book

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Fred Bowen

Pennsylvania

Brendan, the best player on a losing baseball team, learns a lesson from a Chicago Cubs all-star about the true value of the game.

Playoff Dreams

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Scott Simon

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

A Love Story

Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, is a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, and in MY CUBS he chronicles his adolescence in Chicago as a die-hard fan to tell the story of the relationship between the team and the neighbourhood and city, and how the condition of Cubness has both charmed and haunted the lives of so many fans. From theories and curses to jinxes and myths, Simon chronicles how a team of loveable losers inspired such fervour and dedication from their fans, and how their 2016 win transcended sports to become an underdog narrative for the whole nation.

My Cubs

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Florida

A Tiger Cub Grows Up

Kavin Kaduk

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Vermont

A Season in Baseball's Best Neighborhood

In Chicago, the Cubs are a source of hope and heartbreak, not having won a World Series in almost 100 years. But for Cubs fans, "never say die" is a way of life. And Kevin Kaduk is no exception-so much so that in a fit of loyalty to his "Lovable Losers," he quit his job as a sportswriter in Kansas City and moved back to the Windy City on a quest to find the heart and soul of what has come to be known as "Wrigleyville"-the idiosyncratic neighborhood that has sprung up around Wrigley Field." This is a rollicking adventure of baseball, blind faith, and America's pastime as it's played in America's heartland.

Wrigleyworld

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Tom Verducci

ow did a team of untested young players and carefully selected veterans come together to break the longest championship drought in professional sports? With exclusive interviews with all of the people integral to the World Series victory, The Cubs Way chronicles the Chicago Cubs' transformation from perennial underachievers to the best team in baseball, revealing the keys to this incredible achievement. 

Beginning with Theo Epstein's first season with the team in 2012, Tom Verducci shows how Epstein went beyond "Moneyball" thinking when planning, step-by-step, the path to a championship. Leading the organization with a manual he helped develop called "The Cubs Way," Epstein focused on the mental side of the game as much as the physical, emphasizing chemistry and character 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 a lack of rules to keep his team loose, Maddon mixed New Age thinking with aid-school leadership to help his players find their edge. The Cubs Way tracks the untold stories of  key players such as Rizzo, Bryant, Schwarber, Rus-sell, Arrieta, and Lester were deftly brought into the organization by Epstein, and guided by Maddon to outperform expectations. 

Capoing off the epic tale, The Cubs Way relives the magnificent highs and the precarious lows of the instant-classic seven-game World Series. From Maddon's game plans to rain-delay pep talks, Verducci provides a previously unseen view from the bench, inside the locker room, and even in the rid Series unveiled.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

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.

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Rich Cohen

Missouri

Story of a Curse

The New York Times bestselling author of Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and theWild Heart of Football "knocks it out of the park" (Vanity Fair) in this captivating blend of sports reportage and memoir, exploring the history of the 2016 World Series champions, the Chicago Cubs.

Now a New York Times bestseller

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."

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, inThe Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse--not just what happened, but what it felt like and what it meant.

Featuring extensive interviews with players, owners, and coaches, this mix of memoir, reporting, history, and baseball theology--forty years in the making--has never been written because it never could be. Only with the 2016 World Series can the true arc ofthe story finally be understood.

The Chicago Cubs

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

An Illustrated History

Photographs show over one hundred years in the history of the Chicago baseball team, from the late 1800s to the present day

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Frederick C. Klein

Chip Caray

Dusty Baker

Ernie Banks

An A-to-Z Primer for Fans of All Ages

Provides facts about the Chicago Cubs baseball team, including information that correlates to each letter of the alphabet.

For Love of the Cubs

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Glenn Stout

Dick Johnson

Richard A. Johnson

The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball

The definitive narrative history of the Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs have won the hearts of generations of fans, even if they haven’t always won those pivotal games. They were America’s most successful baseball club at the turn of the twentieth century, but by the turn of the twenty-first, things had changed. The Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908, and the last time they clinched the National League Pennant was in 1945. Yet the Cubs have some of the most devoted fans in all of sport. As Glenn Stout writes in the introduction, "They are the game’s last unsolved mystery, the final conundrum, a historical enigma, baseball’s oldest story, with an ending that has yet to be written.” The Cubs chronicles the long, rich, counterintuitive history of this team in all its depth, nuance, and color. We catch a rare glimpse of the early days of Chicago baseball in the 1860s and 1870s and witness the magical 1906 season, with its 116 wins, still the most in major league history. Ernie Banks’s legendary career is covered in detail, as are decisive seasons, such as 1969’s heartbreaking loss to the Amazin’ Mets. Sammy Sosa’s sixty-plus home runs are here too -- together with later allegations regarding corked bats and steroids. The authors cast an analytical eye on the tumultuous reign of chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley and his son Philip, as well as the Tribune Company's planned sale of the Cubs. And we hear the true story behind the "Curse of the Billy Goat” -- what has really "cursed” the Cubs all these years.
A must-have for Cubs fans past and present, The Cubs tells the complete story in a single narrative for the first time since 1945.

The Cubs

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Ohio

My Sweet-Swinging Lifetime with the Cubs

The Hall of Fame baseball player for the Chicago Cubs describes his life and career.

Billy Williams

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David Ross

Don Yaeger

Theo Epstein

Oregon

My Journey in Baseball and a World Series for the Ages

Foreword by Theo Epstein An inspiring memoir from David Ross, the veteran catcher dubbed "Grandpa Rossy," who became the heart and soul of the Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series 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.

Teammate

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Washington

The New York Times bestselling author of Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football "knocks it out of the park" (Vanity Fair) in this captivating blend of sports reportage and memoir, exploring the history of the 2016 World Series champions, 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."

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, in The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse--not just what happened, but what it felt like and what it meant.

Featuring extensive interviews with players, owners, and coaches, this mix of memoir, reporting, history, and baseball theology--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.

Rich Wolfe

Joe Maddon - We're Gonna Party Like It's 1908

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Utah

Kansas

An A to Z Primer for Cubs Fans of All Ages

For the Love of the Cubs

North Carolina

Raising three cubs in the north woods

The Bears and I

William J. Wagner

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Year the Cubs Played Hardball with the Curse

Will Wagner captures in a day-by-day account of the ups and down, ins and outs, of a team that aspired to win it all under the leadership of manager Dusty Baker.

Wrigley Blues

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Jennifer E. Smith

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Baseball brings them together—but will his secret keep them apart? Find out in this heartbreakingly beautiful novel from Jennifer E. Smith, author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. The last place Ryan Walsh should be this afternoon is on a train heading to Wrigley Field. She should be in class, enduring yet another miserable day of her first year of high school. But for once, Ryan isn’t thinking about what she should be doing. She’s not worried about her lack of friends, or her suffering math grade, or how it’s been five whole years since the last time she was really and truly happy. Because she’s finally returning to the place that her father loved, where the two of them spent so many afternoons cheering on their team. And on this—the fifth anniversary of his death—it feels like there’s nowhere else in the world she should be. Ryan is once again filled with hope as she makes her way to the game. Good luck is often hard to come by at a place like Wrigley Field, but it’s on this day that she meets Nick, the new kid from her school, who seems to love the Cubs nearly as much as she does. But Nick carries with him a secret that makes Ryan wonder if anyone can ever really escape their past, or believe in the promise of those reassuring words: “Wait till next year.” Is it too much for Ryan to hope that this year, this season, might be her comeback season?

The Comeback Season

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

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Nebraska

A Book about Bears

Did you know that a grizzly eats about 35 pounds of food each day? Or that pandas were once thought to be raccoons? Each spread in this book features fascinating information and fabulous, full-color photographs.

Growl!

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The Cubs Reader

Ray Walker

The Ultimate Chicago Cubs Trivia Book

Fred Bowen

Playoff Dreams

Scott Simon

My Cubs

Joan Hewett

A Tiger Cub Grows Up

Kavin Kaduk

Wrigleyworld

Tom Verducci

The Cubs Way -signed by author

Rich Cohen

The Chicago Cubs

Donald Honig

The Chicago Cubs

Frederick C. Klein; Chip Caray; Dusty Baker; Ernie Banks

For Love of the Cubs

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Rich Wolfe

Joe Maddon - We're Gonna Party Like It's 1908

Rich Cohen

The Chicago Cubs

Frederick C. Klein; Chip Caray

For the Love of the Cubs

Robert Franklin Leslie

The Bears and I

David Ross; Don Yaeger; Theo Epstein

Teammate

William J. Wagner

Wrigley Blues

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The Comeback Season

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