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Bezig met laden... A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundreddoor George F. Will
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is a sometimes interesting exploration of the history of Wrigley Field, and the Cubs, not really organized around anything except a loose exploration of the thesis that the Friendly confines are themselves to blame for decades of legendary baseball futility. Sometimes this is interesting and sometimes it just reads like long ruminations that didn't get into the Sports section. If you like the Cubs, this will be interesting, but I'm not sure it will appeal to everyone else, even other baseball fans. ( ) George Will grew up in Champaign, Illinois in a place where most people become fans of the powerhouse St. Louis Cardinals. Will, however, chose to become a die hard Cubs fan and thus follow the long road of defeat after defeat year after year. In gthis book he puts forth the theory that one of the reasons the team didn't produce is because Wrigley Field is such a pleasant place to spend an afternoon that the fans really didn't care if the team won or lost. They just enjoyed the experience of the ballpark. Mr. Will knows his baseball and this slim volume is full of laugh out loud anecdotes of the team. My favorite was when Bill Veeck, Sr. who was President of the Cubs was at the end of his life during Prohibition, his son Bill, Jr. approached Al Capone (who was a huge Cub fan ans held season tickets to a field box) for some champagne to ease his father's final days. The mobster sent a case of French champagne to the Veeck house every day for the last ten days of Bill Sr.'s life. This book is a must read for every Cubs fan and everyone who just loves baseball as well. In the interest of full disclosure, I started and finished this book in one sitting while waiting in an airport as my flight was delayed 3.5 hours. So maybe I wasn't in the best frame of mind...but, this seemed to be more of a history of the Cubs and Chicago than of Wrigley itself. It fell short of my expectations and for much of the book seemed more like an unending list of why I should feel sorry for Cub's fans and less about why they love the team and what the ballpark means to them. Guess I just wasn't in the mood to pity anyone. Wrigley Field is a place with a storied history. Despite the challenges that the Cubs have faced throughout the years, they have a loyal fan base, due in part to this "nice little place on the north side." George Will has a lot of material to work with in writing a history of Wrigley Field, and I have to admit that I enjoyed many of the anecdotes that he puts together in this book. Some I had heard before. (As a Cardinals fan, the story of the Cubs trading away Lou Brock to the Cards never gets old.) But many others were new. Who knew that Cubs pitcher Dickie Noles was once traded to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later, and then was sent back to the Cubs to finish the deal, making him one of only 4 players to be traded for themselves. While these facts were entertaining, but the book felt a little choppy to me, galloping from one story to the next without much of a sense of narrative coherence. Perhaps this impression was partly because I was listening to the book on audio, but I would have liked a more focused story. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML:Now with bonus material on the Chicago Cubs' World Series win, the New York Times-bestselling history of America's most beloved baseball stadium, Wrigley Field, and the Cubs’ century-long search for World Series glory In A Nice Little Place on the North Side, leading columnist George Will returns to baseball with a deeply personal look at his hapless Chicago Cubs and their often beatified home, Wrigley Field, as it enters its second century. Baseball, Will argues, is full of metaphors for life, religion, and happiness, and Wrigley is considered one of its sacred spaces. But what is its true, hyperbole-free history? Winding beautifully like Wrigley’s iconic ivy, Will’s meditation on “The Friendly Confines” examines both the unforgettable stories that forged the field’s legend and the larger-than-life characters—from Wrigley and Ruth to Veeck, Durocher, and Banks—who brought it glory, heartbreak, and scandal. Drawing upon his trademark knowledge and inimitable sense of humor, Will also explores his childhood connections to the team, the Cubs’ future, and what keeps long-suffering fans rooting for the home team after so many years of futility. In the end, A Nice Little Place on the North Side is more than just the history of a ballpark. It is the story of Chicago, of baseball, and of America itself. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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