Category: Chicago Cubs

• The Big 50: The Men and Moments That Made the Chicago Cubs

  

           Carrie Muskat, who started covering the Chicago Cubs in 1987, has written The Big 50: The Men and Moments That Made the Chicago Cubs (Triumph Books 2021; $16.95).          “Really there are more than 50 moments because it was hard to limit them so it’s 50 plus,” Muskat tells me in an early morning…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  May 17, 2021

  Chicago, Chicago Cubs, Chicago sports, History

  Carrie Muskat, Chicago, Chicago Cubs, Major League Baseball, Sports, The Big 50, Triumph Books

• Let’s Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks

  

  “People couldn’t see beyond his optimistic outlook and took him to be naïve and have a simplistic outlook on life,” says Wilson. “But Banks was a very deep thinker, he’s someone who overcame a lot of obstacles but never said anything bad about people.

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  February 13, 2019

  Anderson’s Bookstore Downers Grove, Author event, Baseball, Book Cellar, Book signings, Chicago Cubs

  Anderson’s Bookshop, Book Cellar, Ernie Banks, Mr. Cub

• The Joe Maddon Story: “Try Not to Suck”

  

  In a Zen-like move that baffled many in the sports world, Joe Maddon, then the new manager of the Chicago Cubs, enacted a “less is more” philosophy by almost completely eliminating  batting practice. What went against a long time baseball tradition as well as causing intense angst among the Cub fans and head scratching from…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  August 10, 2018

  Baseball, Chicago, Chicago Cubs, Chicago sports, ESPN, Triumph, Uncategorized