num_pages: 145
description: NPR's Scott Simon's personal heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs replete with club lore memorable anecdotes frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most torturedand now triumphantfranchise.Heartbreak and hope. Charmed and haunted. My Cubs is Scott Simons love letter to his Chicago Cubs World Series winners for the first time in over a century. Replete with personal reflections club lore memorable anecdotes and tales of frenetic fandom  My Cubs recounts the franchises pivotal moments with the wise and adoring intimacy of a long-suffering devotee and Chicago native. Simon illustrates how the condition of Cubness has defined the life of so many Chicagoans and how the teams fortunes became intertwined with the aspirations of its faithful. With the curse finally broken on November 2 2016 My Cubs is the perfect portrayal of paradise lost and found.
language: English
title: My Cubs: A Love Story
publisher: Blue Rider Press