Season for the Ages (eBook)

How the 2016 Chicago Cubs Brought a World Series Championship to the North Side

Al Yellon (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
232 Seiten
Sports Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-68358-116-1 (ISBN)

Infos

No doubt, youve heard about the Cubs decades-long run of futility. They hadnt won a pennant in seventy-one years or a World Series in a record 108 years. To the frustration of Cubs fans everywhere, the team often missed chances with soul-crushing defeats.But after a complete teardown that resulted in a 100-loss season in 2012, Theo Epstein and his baseball staff reversed that with the Cubs of 2016, a team that was not only supremely talented, but cared nothing for all the media narratives of losing. They did things during the regular season that no Cubs club had done in more than a century, including earning the most wins for the franchise since 1910. The club went on to defeat the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League playoffs before beating the Cleveland Indians to win the World Series.Anthony Rizzo, MVP candidate Kris Bryant, Jake Arrieta, Jon Lester, manager Joe Maddon, and fan favorites like Javier Baez and David Ross are the heroes of the 2016 Cubs story. Told by Al Yellon, managing editor of SB Nations Bleed Cubbie Blue, A Season to Remember chronicles not only the 2016 Cubs rise to the top of the baseball heap, but the teamsand the fanslong journey to get there.

Autor

Al Yellon is the founder and editor in chief of the popular SB Nation Cubs site Bleed Cubbie Blue. He is coauthor of Cubs By The Numbers: A Complete Team History of the Cubs by Uniform Number. Yellon lives in Chicago, Illinois.Pat Hughes has been the radio play-by-play voice of the Chicago Cubs for twenty-one seasons. Hughes was named the Illinois Sportscaster of the Year in 2015, 2014, 2009, 2007, 2006, 1999, and 1996. He earned Wisconsin Sportscaster of the Year Award honors three times (1990-1992). Hughes is the producer of "Baseball Voices: Hall of Fame Series," compact discs that commemorate and pay tribute to famous announcers of the past. He lives in the Chicago area.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2016
• Vorwort: Pat Hughes
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1908 • 1946 • 1954 cleveland indians • 1975 • 2004 • 2016 • Angeles • baseball league • baseball's • BluRay • books on angeles • books on baseball leagues • books on bluray • books on broadcasts • books on championships • books on chicago cubs • books on cleveland indians • books on collectors • books on comebacks • books on cubs baseballs • books on dodgers • books on dvds • books on encyclopedias • books on giants • books on innings • books on los • books on mariners • books on montero books on yearbooks • books on nats • books on nlcs • books on pennants • books on playoffs • books on preorders • books on rizzo • books on spirits • books on stereos • broadcast • Championship • cheaper • chicago cubs • cleveland indians • Collectors • Comeback • cubbie • cubs baseball • decades-long • Dodgers • DVDs • Encyclopedia • Game 7 • Giants • inning • LOS • mariners • Montero • nats • nlcs • Pennant • playoffs • plummeted • preorder • pulse-pounding • re-live • ring-living • rizzo • seventy-one • soul-crushing • Spirits • Stereo • walk-off • Yearbook
• ISBN-10: 1-68358-116-4 / 1683581164
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68358-116-1 / 9781683581161