Description
Founded in 1869, the Chicago Cubs are a charter member of the National League and the last remaining of the eight original league clubs still playing in the city in which the franchise started. Drawing on newspaper articles, books and archival records, the author chronicles the team's early years. He describes the club's planning stages of 1868; covers the decades when the ballplayers were variously called White Stockings, Colts, and Orphans; and relates how a sportswriter first referred to the young players as Cubs in the March 27, 1902, issue of the Chicago Daily News. Reprinted selections from firsthand accounts provide a colorful narrative of baseball in 19th-century America, as well as a documentary history of the Chicago team and its members before they were the Cubs.
Author: Jack Bales
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 03/05/2019
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781476674674
ISBN10: 1476674671
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Baseball | History
Author: Jack Bales
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 03/05/2019
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781476674674
ISBN10: 1476674671
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Baseball | History
About the Author
Jack Bales is the Reference and Humanities Librarian at the University of Mary Washington Library in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The author of numerous books and articles, he lives in Fredericksburg.