The Chicago Cubs : story of a curse / Rich Cohen.
After his first Cubs game when Rich Cohen was eight, 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."...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 273 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- "There's no rooting in the press box"
- "Don't hate on '08"
- 1060 West Addison Street
- Big shoulders, tiny feet
- Year of the goat
- The wilderness
- The chemo coach
- The red line
- The big question
- What is the sound of one Cubs fan not clapping?
- Got milk? Got pot.
- Go Cubs go!
- Post-season
- World Series!
- Game seven
- Afterword.