My Cubs: A Love Story

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My Cubs: A Love Story

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 torturedâ€”and now triumphantâ€”franchise.

Heartbreak and hope. Charmed and haunted. My Cubs is Scott Simonâ€™s 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 franchiseâ€™s pivotal moments with the wise and adoring intimacy of a long-suffering devotee and Chicago native. Simon illustrates how the condition of â€œCubnessâ€ has defined the life of so many Chicagoans and how the teamâ€™s 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.

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