Before They Were the Cubs
Subtitle: The Early Years of Chicago's First Professional Baseball Team
Publisher: McFarland
Published: Mar 05, 2019
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781476674674
Description: "Founded in 1869, the Chicago Cubs are a charter member of the National League and the last remaining of the eight original league clubs still playing in the city in which the franchise started. Drawing on newspaper articles, books and archival records, the author chronicles the team's early years. He describes the club's planning stages of 1868; covers the decades when the ballplayers were variously called White Stockings, Colts, and Orphans; and relates how a sportswriter first referred to the young players as Cubs in the March 27, 1902, issue of the Chicago Daily News. Reprinted selections from firsthand accounts provide colorful narratives of baseball in 19th-century America, as well as a documentary history of the Chicago team and its members before they were the Cubs"--
Notes: Source title: Before They Were the Cubs: The Early Years of Chicago's First Professional Baseball Team