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Store Events - May 9, 11:00 a.m.
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Time: Saturday, May 9, 2009 11:00 a.m.
Location: The Book Stall at Chestnut Court
Title of Event: CUB FANS, THIS IS FOR YOU
AL YELLON, publisher of the blog bleedcubbieblue.com, and KASEY IGNARKSI talk with Cubs fans about Cubs by the Numbers, the book they co-authored with Matt Silverman with stories about the 71 numbers that have been worn by 1,100 Cubs players.
And there's more! JIM McARDLE, former Cubs employee as the editor of the official team magazine "Vine Line," tells the story of his new book, Living the Dream: An Inside Account of the 2008 Cubs Season.
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Cubs by the Numbers: A Complete Team History of the Chicago Cubs by Uniform Number
by
Yellon, Al,
Ignarski, Kasey,
Silverman, Matthew
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$14.95
Published: Skyhorse Publishing, 2009
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
What do Dizzy Dean, Catfish Metkovich, John Boccabella, Bill Buckner, Mark Prior, and Kevin Hart all have in common? They all wore number 22 for the Chicago Cubs, even though seven decades have passed between the last time Dizzy Dean buttoned up a Cubs uniform with that number and the first time reliever Kevin Hart performed the same routine. Since the Chicago Cubs first adopted uniform numbers in 1932, the team has handed out only 71 numbers to more than 1,100 players. That's a lot of overlap. It also makes for a lot of good stories. Cubs by the Numbers tells those stories for every Cub since '32, from 1930s outfielder Ethan Allen to current ace Carlos Zambrano. This book lists the players alphabetically and by number, but the biographies help trace the history of baseball's most beloved team in a new way. For Cubs fans, anyone who ever wore the uniform is like family. Cubs by the Numbers reintroduces readers to some of their long-lost ancestors, even ones they think they already know.
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Living the Dream: An Inside Account of the 2008 Cubs Season
by
McArdle, Jim
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$19.95
Published: Triumph Books (IL), 2009
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
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