Killing the curse
By: Dennis Hetzel with Rick Robinson
Contributors: Robinson, Rick, 1958- author
Publisher: Publisher Page, an imprint of Headline Books, Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Terra Alta, WV
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780938467991
Subjects: Chicago Cubs (Baseball team); Fiction; Baseball stories
Description: The Chicago Cubs haven't won a World Series for more than 100 years or even played in one since 1945. Now they're positioned to win the Series for the first time since 1908 - if only curses and bad luck don't haunt them as usual. That's what happens when a swarm of gnats helps the Boston Red Sox tie the Series at three games each. No one wants the Cubs to win more than Luke Murphy, President of the United States and lifelong fan. Leading the disbelievers is Murphy's boyhood friend, Bob Walters, a sports radio talk-show host with a beautiful daughter and a big ego who built ratings by being "the man Cub fans love to hate." The Cubs have someone else on their side -- a brilliant, crazed fan who will do anything to make sure they win, anything. It starts with an attack on the father of Boston's best pitcher and grows into an escalating threat that could destroy Murphy's career, expose childhood secrets, and kill hundreds of innocent people. Everything comes to a head as Game Seven unfolds -- a game the Cubs must win no matter what.