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Steve Goodman

* Ancillary reading

July 23, 2008

An emotional review of Clay Eal’s new biography of Steve Goodman, who composed “A Dying Cubs’ Fan’s Last Request.”

Tagged as: baseball songs, Cubs, Steve Goodman

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* One curse down, one to go?

June 12, 2008

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 […]

Tagged as: Chicag Cubs, Fred Merkle, Steve Goodman

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Review: Your Brain on Cubs

February 28, 2008

Your Brain on Cubs: Inside the Heads of Players and Fans Edited by Dan Gordon. Dana Press, 2008 You have to feel for Cubs fans. More so than Red Sox fans, who even before two championships in three years seemed to have a sense of entitlement, despite the team’s misfortunes and poor performances. Cubs rooters, […]

Tagged as: Chicago Cubs, Science of sports, Steve Goodman

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