Before the ivy : the Cubs' golden age in pre-Wrigley Chicago /

Before the ivy : the Cubs' golden age in pre-Wrigley Chicago /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pernot, Laurent.
Imprint:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Chicago Cubs (Baseball team) -- History. Wrigley Field (Chicago, Ill.) -- History. Chicago Cubs (Baseball team) Wrigley Field (Chicago, Ill.) Electronic book. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11239836

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ISBN:	9780252080289 9780252096655 0252096657 0252080289 9780252096655
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Description based on print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Before the ivy Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015] 9780252080289 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. From Little English Acorn to Giant American Oak
2. The Baseball Frontier
3. Chicago's Hired Guns
4. The Phoenix
5. Chicago's Own League
6. The Birth of a Dynasty
7. Keeping the Stockings White
8. West Side Home
9. The National League Ain't the World
10. The Sabbath Battles
11. "It Was Straight Whiskey"
12. "Mighty Casey Has Struck Out"
13. Baseball Missionaries
14. The Lean Years
15. Back to the West Side
16. From Colts to Cubs
17. The Saddest of Possible Words?
18. "The Fellows Who Made the Game"
19. Out in Left Field?
20. Again, Chicago is Champion
21. Covering the Bases
22. Three More Pennants
23. Going, Going
24. Gone
Appendix A. About the Ballparks
Appendix B. The Team through the Decades
Notes
Bibliography
Index