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38 “I spend $1.5 million a year”: Ibid., 55.
39 But the Cubs still ran ads in the Tribune: Ibid., 48–49.
40 Wrigley, who said, “It is easier to control”: Golenbock, Wrigleyville, 214.
41 Which is why a Chicago newspaper: Ibid., 215.
42 In July 1926, the Chicago Tribune: Ehrgott, Mr. Wrigley’s Ball Club, 288.
43 When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe: See, for example: Susan Belasco, “Harriet Beecher Stowe,” New York Times, http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/harriet_beecher_stowe/index.html.
44 A good tutor about this episode is Leigh Montville: Leigh Montville, The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth (Broadway Books, 2007). For Montville’s full explanation, see pages 309–12.
45 Having written a farewell note: Ibid., 309.
46 The judge presiding over a dispute: Ehrgott, Mr. Wrigley’s Ball Club, 346.
47 The Cubs, Montville writes: Montville, The Big Bam, 309.
48 But the Scripps Howard News Service: Paul Dickson, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, 3rd. ed. (New York: Norton, 2009), 157–58.
49 In his 1955 autobiography, The Tumult and the Shouting: See Montville, The Big Bam, 312–13, for Grantland Rice’s autobiographical account of Ruth’s story.
50 The headline on the obituary: Bruce Weber, “Ruth Ann Steinhagen Is Dead at 83; Shot a Ballplayer,” New York Times, March 24, 2013, A22.
51 He was a human fireplug: Arthur Daley, “Sports of the Times: A Tragic Figure,” New York Times, November 25, 1948, 52.
52 An often-told story: See, for example, Richard O’Mara, “Like a Bat Out of Hell,” Baltimore Sun, September 4, 1998, http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-09-04/features/1998247062_1_hack-wilson-baseball-robert/2, and Bob Herzog, “Wilson’s Record May Be the Most Awesome of All Time,” Los Angeles Times, August 2, 1998, http://articles.latimes.com/1998/aug/02/sports/sp-9571.
53 Wilson said, “I never played drunk”: Glenn Stout, The Cubs: The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007), 128.
54 But Bill Veeck remembered one instance: Veeck, Veeck as in Wreck, 32.
55 After the game, when a boy: “1929 World Series,” Baseball-Reference.com, http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/1929_World_Series.
56 “In modern baseball”: Bill James, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (New York: Free Press, 2001), 736.
57 Recalling the winter of 1930: Ira Berkow, “On Baseball; Hack Wilson’s Lesson Still Valid,” New York Times, September 5, 1998, D3.
58 Shortly before his death, Wilson: Clifton Blue Parker, Fouled Away: The Baseball Tragedy of Hack Wilson (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000), 2.
59 When, in 1934, he became: Andrew Steele, “Philip Wrigley,” Society for American Baseball Research, http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/1043052b.
60 Carefully parse the words Philip said: Ibid.
61 In 1958, Wrigley told Sports Illustrated: Robert Boyle, “A Shy Man at a Picnic,” Sports Illustrated, April 14, 1958.
62 Charlie Grimm, who played for the Cubs: Golenbock, Wrigleyville, 271.
63 “It was,” Wrigley said: Boyle, “A Shy Man.”
64 Loyalty to a Chicago friend: Ibid.
65 This venture inspired the 1992 movie: A League of Their Own; quotations taken from Internet Movie Database, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104694/quotes.
66 An ad Wrigley placed in Chicago newspapers: Display ad, Chicago Tribune, August 30, 1948, B3.
67 Winning was not central: Steele, “Philip Wrigley.”
68 “His slogan was ‘Come Out and Have a Picnic’ ”: Golenbock, Wrigleyville, 357.
69 He told Sports Illustrated: Boyle, “A Shy Man.”
70 In 1958, Wrigley explained: Ibid.
71 “A doctor can bury his mistakes”: Fitzhenry, Harper Book of Quotations, 43.
72 Its origin story is told by Bill Veeck Jr.: For quotations throughout this section, I drew on Veeck, Veeck as in Wreck.
73 That team frequently played in front of such small crowds: Kathy O’Malley and Dorothy Collin, “Daleyville,” Chicago Tribune, April 3, 1991.
74 On September 17, 1937: Edward Burns, “New Wrigley Field Blooms in Scenic Beauty—and Scoffers Rush to Apologize,” Chicago Tribune, September 12, 1937, B5.
75 Paul Dickson is the author: Paul Dickson, Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick (New York: Walker, 2012).
76 Veeck said the Cubs assigned: Ibid., 42–43.
77 Paul Sullivan, who has been covering baseball: For several quotations and anecdotes throughout this section, I drew on correspondence with Paul Sullivan.
78 Santa Catalina, the “isle with the smile”: Ehrgott, Mr. Wrigley’s Ball Club, 154.
79 He had dinner in Los Angeles: Ronald Reagan, An American Life: An Autobiography (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990).
80 In his 1990 memoir: Ibid.
81 In 1907, when the Cubs ruled the roost: Edward A. Berlin, King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 76.
82 In the summer of 1919: William M. Tuttle Jr., “Contested Neighborhoods and Racial Violence: Prelude to the Chicago Riot of 1919,” Journal of Negro History, vol. 55, no. 4 (October 1970), 282.
83 On Monday, May 19, 1947: Edward Burns, “Record 46,572 See Dodgers Beat Cubs, 4–2,” Chicago Tribune, May 19, 1947, 29.
84 The headline in the Chicago Defender: Ron Grossman, “ ’42’ in the Windy City,” Chicago Tribune, April 28, 2013.
85 A Cub official told the paper: Leslie A. Heaphy, Black Baseball and Chicago: Essays on the Players, Teams and Games (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006), 184.
86 That day, Mike Royko: Mike Royko, One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 68–70.
87 “Managers,” Wrigley said, “are expendable”: Steele, “Philip Wrigley.”
88 Wrigley’s rationale was: Stout, The Cubs, 236.
89 For the 1966 season, he hired Leo Durocher: Al Yellon, Kasey Ignarski, and Matthew Silverman, Cubs by the Numbers: A Complete Team History of the Chicago Cubs by Uniform (New York: Skyhorse, 2009).
90 His salty memoir: For quotations throughout this section, I drew on Leo Durocher, Nice Guys Finish Last, with Ed Linn (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).
91 The Cardinals sent out another scout: George Vecsey, Stan Musial: An American Life (New York: ESPN Books / Ballantine Books, 2011), 202.
92 “Can’t act. Slightly bald”: Mike Towle, Pete Rose: Baseball’s Charlie Hustle (Nashville: Cumberland House, 2003), 37.
93 Banks said that when Saperstein: Golenbock, Wrigleyville, 349.
94 “His wrists,” said a teammate: “Ernie Banks,” Baseball Library.com, http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=ernie_banks_1931.
95 Bill James, in the first version: James, Historical Baseball Abstract, 367.
96 In 1958, an opposing manager: Golenbock, Wrigleyville, 349.
97 According to Golenbock, Caray was fired: Ibid., 456.
98 Nearly forty years after he first experienced it: For several quotations and anecdotes throughout this section, I drew on correspondence with Mike Krukow.
99 As his wife settled into her seat: For several quotations and anecdotes throughout this section, I drew on Tyler Kepner, “On a Sunny Day at Wrigley, a Perfect Storm of Offense,” New York Times, May 17, 2009, SP1.
100 In Ashburn’s final big league season: David H. Nathan, The McFarland Baseball Quotations Dictionary (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000), 13.
101 It is somehow fitting: For this and other Danny Ozark quotations, see Robert Cohen, The 50 Greatest Players in New York Yankees History (Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow, 2012), 32, and Dickson, Dickson Baseball Dictionary, 619.
102 April is—a poet born and raised in the Midwest said: See T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), available here: http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html.
103 Because it is the most famous rhetorical moment: “Lee Elia Cubs Rant,
” Nuttysportsvideos, available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0CDtEz_Bo.
104 What is not well known: For several quotations and anecdotes throughout this section, I drew on correspondence with Keith Moreland.
105 In 1984, one of the happier summers: For quotations and attendance numbers throughout this section, I drew on Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim, Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won (New York: Three Rivers, 2011).
106 Then, according to the Discovery Channel: For much of the information related to beer in this section, I drew on Martyn Ives, How Beer Saved the World (Discovery Channel, 2011); Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (New York: Riverhead, 2006); George F. Will, “Hooding Remarks” (Princeton University, June 4, 2012), http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/88/44Q33/; and Daniel Okrent, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (New York: Scribner, 2010).
107 Before the game, he waxed poetic: For Vin Scully’s opening remarks, see Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2009); Steve Nidetz, “Despite Blowout in Game 1, Big Audience Got a Fine Show,” Chicago Tribune, October 6, 1989; and “This Time It Will Be Better,” Desipio Blog, October 1, 2007, http://www.desipio.com/?p=1390.
108 This is Miss Havisham as seen: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2000), 48–49.
109 The Cubs were leading the 2003: For much of the information related to the Bartman incident in this section, I drew on Alex Gibney, Catching Hell (ESPN Films, 2011).
110 The relevant rule reads: “2013 Official Baseball Rules: 2.00 Definition of Terms,” Major League Baseball, 2013, http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads/y2013/official_baseball_rules.pdf, 18.
111 In Chicago: City on the Make: Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make (New York: Doubleday, 1951), 30.
112 In a New Yorker cartoon: George F. Will, “Your Brain on Cubs,” Newsweek, March 29, 2008.
113 So says Jordan Grafman: Dan Gordon, ed., Your Brain on Cubs: Inside the Heads of Players and Fans (New York: Dana, 2008).
114 On October 23, 1943: Winston S. Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches (New York: Hyperion, 2003), 358–61.
115 It was, after all, a great Chicago architect: Fitzhenry, Harper Book of Quotations, 43.
116 Returning to the huddle: Mark C. Bodanza, 1933: Football at the Depth of the Great Depression (Bloomington: iUniverse, 2010), 27.
117 To those who said, “You can’t turn back”: For information related to Janet Marie Smith, I drew on several sources, including correspondence with Janet Marie Smith; Ryan Vaillancourt, “Janet Marie Smith and the Changes to Dodger Stadium,” Los Angeles Downtown News, February 12, 2013, http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/janet-marie-smith-and-the-changes-to-dodger-stadium/article_41c5419e-7245-11e2-9350-0019bb2963f4.html; Bret McCabe, “Janet Marie Smith Talks Ballparks and Urban Transformation,” Hub, December 7, 2012, http://hub.jhu.edu/2012/12/07/berman-lecture-smith-ballparks; and Ryan Sharrow, “Power 20: Janet Marie Smith,” Balitmore Business Journal, February 18, 2011, http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/print-edition/2011/02/18/power-20-janet-marie-smith.html?page=all. 170
118 He says “the best $50,000 we spent”: Martan F. Nolan, “Advice to Red Sox: Just Keep Swinging,” Boston Globe, September 1, 2001.
119 His grandfather was the wit: George F. Will, Bunts: Curt Flood, Camden Yards, Pete Rose and Other Reflections on Baseball (New York: Touchstone, 1999), 91.
120 William Zinsser, a gifted writer: William Zinsser, The Writer Who Stayed (Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2012), 66, 124–25.
121 In it he recalls the pleasure: Ralph Branca, A Moment in Time: An American Story of Baseball, Heartbreak, and Grace, with David Ritz (New York: Scribner, 2011), 25.
122 He said owning the team: For various facts related to Wrigley Field and Tom Ricketts in this section, I drew on correspondence with Tom Ricketts.
123 In May 2012, a USA Today: Bob Nightengale, “No Joy in Wrigleyville as Cubs, Neighbors Clash,” USA Today, May 9, 2013.
124 “Baseball,” wrote A. Bartlett Giamatti: A. Bartlett Giamatti, A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti (Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1998), 46.
125 Its themes explain why we care: For quotations throughout this section, I drew on A. Bartlett Giamatti, Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games (New York: Bloomsbury USA, 1989).
126 “Life is a long preparation”: Fitzhenry, Harper Book of Quotations, 263.
Throughout this book, records, standings, payroll figures, information about ballparks, and other miscellaneous data have been drawn from:
Correspondence with Steve Hirdt, Elias Sports Bureau
Correspondence with Michael Haupert, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/
http://www.baseball-reference.com/
http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/
http://mlb.mlb.com/home
http://www.retrosheet.org/
http://sabr.org/research/
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