Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club: Chicago an..., Roberts Ehrgott

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ISBN
0803253427
EAN
9780803253421
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Type
Paperback / softback
Release Title
Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club: Chicago and the Cubs during the Jazz Age
Artist
Roberts Ehrgott
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803253427
ISBN-13
9780803253421
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175809778

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Book Title
Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club : Chicago and the Cubs During the Jazz Age
Number of Pages
514 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Baseball / History, United States / 20th Century, Baseball / General, Customs & Traditions, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Social Science, History
Author
Roberts Ehrgott
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
24.3 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Trade
Reviews
"[ Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club is a smartly written, well-researched look at the Cubs from 1925 to 1932."-Bob D'Angelo, Tampa Tribune, "What sets the book apart from many set in baseball is how Roberts Ehrgott handles the context in which the fun and games transpired. In the '20s, Chicago was certainly the Cubs, but it was also Al Capone, and, as Ehrgott writes, "Chicagoans venturing to other parts of the country and abroad learned that their city was becoming a byword for mayhem and violence." . . . Chicago's dizzy baseball hopes and dreams seem especially poignant against the background of the onset of the Great Depression."-Bill Littlefield, Boston Globe, "Roberts Ehrgott does first-rate work as a baseball historian and storyteller in his addictive, entertaining Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club . He captures 1920s baseball and Jazz Age America in all its swinging, sweaty, booze-soaked charm. A real winner."-Jonathan Eig, New York Times best-selling author of Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig and Get Capone, "Roberts Ehrgott has written a graceful, engrossing account of an era in which the Cubs, while already falling short of winning the World Series, built a national following in the age of flash, flappers, mobsters, molls, bank runs and breadlines."-Scott Simon, Chicago Tribune, "[ Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club ] is a smartly written, well-researched look at the Cubs from 1925 to 1932."-Bob D'Angelo, Tampa Tribune, Roberts Ehrgott has written a graceful, engrossing account of an era in which the Cubs, while already falling short of winning the World Series, built a national following in the age of flash, flappers, mobsters, molls, bank runs and breadlines." - Scott Simon, Chicago Tribune "A fun read . . . full of anecdote and color. Recommended for fans of the Cubs or Chicago or baseball history." - Library Journal "What sets the book apart from many set in baseball is how Roberts Ehrgott handles the context in which the fun and games transpired. In the '20s, Chicago was certainly the Cubs, but it was also Al Capone, and, as Ehrgott writes, "Chicagoans venturing to other parts of the country and abroad learned that their city was becoming a byword for mayhem and violence." . . . Chicago's dizzy baseball hopes and dreams seem especially poignant against the background of the onset of the Great Depression." - Bill Littlefield, Boston Globe, "A fun read . . . full of anecdote and color. Recommended for fans of the Cubs or Chicago or baseball history."- Library Journal, "The Second City couldn't get enough of this team of assorted alcoholics, teetotalers, brawlers, carousers, fitness buffs and gamblers that captured two pennants and featured numerous eventual Hall of Famers. . . . An absolute must for any baseball fan's library."- Kirkus starred review
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
796.357/640977311
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments 000 1. The Capital of Baseball 000 2. Samples of Baseball 000 3. The Age of Wilson Begins 000 4. The McCarthymen Take the Stage 000 5. My Dad the Sportswriter 000 6. To Paradise and Back 000 7. "A Sort of Frenzy" 000 8. McCarthy's Debacle 000 9. "I Wanted Wilson" 000 10. The Prime of Mr. Hack Wilson 000 11. "A Lousy Outfield" 000 12. Room 509 000 13. Informants 000 14. "Nothing to It" 000 15. "No Particular Pal of Mine" 000 16. "That Story Is Terrible, Judge" 000 17. The Natural 000 18. "Mugs . . . Chiselers" 000 Notes 000 Additional Source Comments 000 Bibliography 000Index 000
Synopsis
Chicago in the Roaring Twenties was a city of immigrants, mobsters and flappers with one shared passion: the Chicago Cubs. In this Jazz Age centre, the maverick William Wrigley exploited broadcasting to attract eager throngs of women to his renovated ballpark. Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club transports us to this heady era of baseball history and introduces the team at its crazy heart., Chicago in the Roaring Twenties was a city of immigrants, mobsters, and flappers with one shared passion: the Chicago Cubs. It all began when the chewing-gum tycoon William Wrigley decided to build the world's greatest ball club in the nation's Second City. In this Jazz Age center, the maverick Wrigley exploited the revolutionary technology of broadcasting to attract eager throngs of women to his renovated ballpark. Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club transports us to this heady era of baseball history and introduces the team at its crazy heart-an amalgam of rakes, pranksters, schemers, and choirboys who take center stage in memorable successes, equally memorable disasters, and shadowy intrigue. Readers take front-row seats to meet Grover Cleveland Alexander, Rogers Hornsby, Joe McCarthy, Lewis "Hack" Wilson, Gabby Hartnett. The cast of characters also includes their colorful if less-extolled teammates and the Cubs' nemesis, Babe Ruth, who terminates the ambitions of Mr. Wrigley's ball club with one emphatic swing. Roberts Ehrgott has written for and edited several national publications, including the Saturday Evening Post. He served as a historical consultant for Mark Jacob and Stephen Green's Wrigley Field: A Celebration of the Friendly Confines., Chicago in the Roaring Twenties was a city of immigrants, mobsters, and flappers with one shared passion: the Chicago Cubs. It all began when the chewing-gum tycoon William Wrigley decided to build the world's greatest ball club in the nation's Second City. In this Jazz Age center, the maverick Wrigley exploited the revolutionary technology of broadcasting to attract eager throngs of women to his renovated ballpark. Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club transports us to this heady era of baseball history and introduces the team at its crazy heart--an amalgam of rakes, pranksters, schemers, and choirboys who take center stage in memorable successes, equally memorable disasters, and shadowy intrigue. Readers take front-row seats to meet Grover Cleveland Alexander, Rogers Hornsby, Joe McCarthy, Lewis "Hack" Wilson, Gabby Hartnett. The cast of characters also includes their colorful if less-extolled teammates and the Cubs' nemesis, Babe Ruth, who terminates the ambitions of Mr. Wrigley's ball club with one emphatic swing.
LC Classification Number
GV875.C6E37 2014

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