When the Red Sox won their first World Championship in almost 90 years, it spawned a subgenre of baseball titles.
What then, can we expect when (if) the Cubs follow suit this year after a century of frustration? Perhaps this is a portent of things to come.
We Are Cubs Fans is a collection of photos by Will Byington, supplemented with brief essays on the joys/pains of following the team from the North Side. According to the book’s Web site:
Day in and day out, 81 days a year, 40,000 or more fans descend upon a baseball shrine named Wrigley Field. Bordered by the streets of Clark, Addison, Waveland and Sheffield, it is known as “The Friendly Confines.” Win or lose, rain or shine, fans trek from near and far to watch some baseball, bask in the summer sun and cheer on the boys in blue, forgetting for a short while the world around them. Some of the fans are young, born into a lifetime of fandom… Others are old, wishing and hoping to just see one World Series win… an event that has not happened in their lifetime… since 1908 in fact. For some, the trek to the ballpark is a means of life… a job, a resource to earn a living. For others, it is a passion… from the moment they entered the concourse as a child, smelling the scents of the grass, the food and the beer and hearing the sounds of the old organ and the crack of the bat… it has been embedded in their hearts through joy and pain. This book is dedicated to those who believe. This book is their story.
For more on the book, visit this.
is available on Amazon.com,
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