For the Love of the Cubs: An A–Z Primer for Cubs Fans of All Ages
Foreword This book combines two of the things that are most important in my life helping children learn and baseball When I was a kid growing up I learned my math and improved my spelling by collecting baseball cards and I think that For the Love of the Cubs can help children in a similar way What better way to help a child learn the ABCs than by simultaneously learning the history players and coaches of the Chicago Cubs It is so much fun and it is such an honor to watch and talk about the Chicago Cubs during the season but I realize that there is a lot to know about the Cubs Learning to spell and learning history is all about words on a page which can be hard to remember But in For the Love of the Cubs the illustrations bring those words and the team’s history to life right before your eyes I hope that you and your children enjoy For the Love of the Cubs as much as my wife and I have enjoyed sharing the book with our two daughters Pat Hughes WSCR AM Radio play-by-play voice of the Cubs
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A is for the Architects Theo and Ricketts They've got Cubs fans purchasing Postseason tickets Tom Ricketts a native of Omaha Nebraska and a graduate of the University of Chicago purchased the Cubs in 2009 from the Tribune Company pledging to help the team achieve the playing-field success that had eluded it for almost a century In 2012 Ricketts hired as his head of baseball operations Theo Epstein who had already guided the Boston Red Sox to World Series victories in 2004 and 2007 ending their 86-year championship drought Epstein rebuilt the Cubs from the ground up molding a young dynamic roster that promises to add more World Series trophies to the team’s breakthrough 2016 triumph
