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Waiting for the Cubs: The 2008 Season, the Hundred-Year Slump and One Fan's Lifelong Vigil |  | Author: Floyd Sullivan
Publisher: McFarland
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1042276
Media: Paperback
Pages: 204
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0786449020
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357640977311
EAN: 9780786449026
ASIN: 0786449020
Publication Date: May 6, 2010
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Product Description
This is a memoir of a diehard--a diehard fan who drove himself and his family half crazy to get to Cubs games that were 700 miles away from their home. Along the way Sullivan recounts the history of Cubs baseball, including events from the 1908 season, as well as reminiscences from other fans and stories of his own experience following a team that has gone a century without attaining that final win that would make them world champions.
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A Cub is a Small Animal June 9, 2010
M. J. Cahill (Brightwaters NY)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In the neglected 1952 cold war classic "Invasion USA", a loyal GI guards the US Capitol. Unbeknownst to him, millions of Red Chinese paratroopers, all dressed in American uniforms, are infiltrating the nation. The stalwart GI challenges about 50 approaching commies, who say they are from Chicago. "Chicago eh?", says the GI aggressively, "How did the Cubs do today?" The not-so-clever leader of the invaders replies "Cubs? A cub is a small animal." Whereupon our hero starts blasting away at the sneaky commie rats.
Floyd Sullivan is that GI. Does he save the Capitol? Does he even find out the score of the Cub game? No, in this movie, as in real life baseball, he gets massacred like everybody else. But as a loyal Cub fan, he hangs in until the last out of the last inning, going down swinging, no matter the score, no matter how obnoxious the opponent.
Waiting for the Cubs brilliantly captures the stubborn loyalty and grim pessimism of the Cub fan in exile, in the twin stories of the classically frustrating 2008 season and the truly strange events surrounding the Cubs last World Series championship in 1908. Well written and full of odd bits of Cub lore, it is also the story of a family. Sullivans are spread out all over the place, but they always seem to find a way to get to the game. This is the book that will make you call in sick, slip a note to the teacher, and take your kids to the game.
Delightful! June 2, 2010
J. Goss (Libertyville, IL United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a delightful book, and a true labor of love... love for the Chicago Cubs and love of the game of baseball. Sullivan writes a memoir full of personal stories as well as the remembrances of family, friends and colleagues, all relating to the Cubs (Cub game glee as well as anxiety). It's entertaining, yet educational: the book is well researched in terms of the 1908 baseball season, the players, the field, and Cub management. The author clearly spent countless hours in the archives of Cub history, making certain that the 1908 story was told.... in parallel to the 2008 season.
We follow the author growing up a Cub fan in Chicago, and then (horrifyingly), moving from Chicago, going into "Cub Exile" and the many road trips endured to see his team play in 2008. We can almost audibly hear his Chicago-accented descriptions of both the triumphs and the misery of that fateful season.
The bottom line; every true Cub fan should read this book.
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