Cubs fans sure hope so. It’s been 100 years since they last one the Series, and, in the words of the late Steve Goodman’s “A Dying Cubs Fans Last Request”
“…the year the Cubs last won a national league pennant
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan”
So it’s with great anticipation that readers hope author Jerry Jacover’s new book, Merkle’s Curse (Tate Publishing), will offer some relief.
Jacover traces a dark, forbidding path from the Holy Land, through the Roman Empire, medieval Europe, West Africa and pre-Columbian America, before leaving an imprint on America and its national pastime.
He researched the history of the Cubs and world events and how the two intertwine. It is a humorist look at what it really means to be a longtime suffering Cubs fan.
is available on Amazon.com,
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Sorry, but the 2008 baseball champion has not been determined yet, so it’s still just 99 years of futility for the Cubbies… do the math, count ’em out, but until the 2008 season is completed, it will not be 100 seasons of failure if they don’t win it…
Ron:
Good to see your reference to “A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request” by Steve Goodman. He often doesn’t get his due. You might be interested in my 800-page biography, “Steve Goodman: Facing the Music.” The book delves deeply into the genesis of “A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request” and its semi-sequel, “Go, Cubs, Go.”
You can find out more at my Internet site (below). Amazingly, the book’s first printing sold out in just eight months, all 5,000 copies, and a second printing of 5,000 is available now. The second printing includes hundreds of little updates and additions, including 30 more photos for a total of 575. It just won a 2008 IPPY (Independent Publishers Association) silver medal for biography: http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1231. To order a second-printing copy, see the “online store” page of my site. Just trying to spread word about the book. Feel free to do the same!
Clay
P.S. If the Cubs do go to the Series, who will rewrite “A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request,” and how?
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Clay Eals
(SABR member who laid out and contributed to the 2006 “Rain Check”)
1728 California Ave. S.W. #301
Seattle, WA 98116-1958
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