* RK Review: We Are Cubs Fans

December 9, 2008

An Unofficial Journal of Baseball’s Best Fans, Volume #1 By Will Byington

It takes a special person to be a Cubs fan. With such a rich history of failure and disappointment, some would call them masochists, but looking at the photos and reading the stories in Byington’s new book, they seem happy enough. (Of course, there are several shots of people with beer…)

This is a collaborative effort. Byington enlisted comments and pictures from his fellow fanatics, supplementing them with his own photographs.  Some of the stories are standard: Having Gramps take you to your first game, meeting your future spouse, the simple pleasure of a hot sunny summer day in the best place in the world to take in a game, but that doesn’t diminish the extended pleasure of shared joy. Offhand, I can’t recall any shots of players in the book; it’s all about the team’s rooters.

Byington is already thinking ahead: the coffee-table book includes a postcard for readers to offer their own Cubs memories for Volume #2. They can also write and submit photos online at www.wearecubsfans.com.

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