The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs is a decade-by-decade
look at one of baseball's most beloved if hard-luck teams, starting with
the franchise's beginnings in 1876 as the Chicago White Stockings and
ending with the triumphant 2016 World Series championship.
For more than a century, the Chicago Tribune has documented every Cubs
season through original reporting, photography, and box scores. For the
first time, this mountain of Cubs history has been mined and curated by
the paper's sports department into a single one-of-a-kind volume. Each
era in Cubs history includes its own timeline, profiles of key players
and coaches, and feature stories that highlight it all, from the heavy
hitters to the no-hitters to the one-hit wonders.
And of course, you can't talk about the Cubs without talking about
Wrigley Field. In this book, readers will find a complete history of
that most sacred of American stadiums, where Hack Wilson batted in 191
runs--still the major-league record--in 1930, where Sammy Sosa earned
the moniker "Slammin' Sammy," and where fans congregated, even when the
team was on the road, throughout its scintillating championship run.
The award-winning journalists, photographers, and editors of the
Chicago Tribune have produced a comprehensive collector's item that
every Cubs fan will love.
