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Skyhorse Publishing > Sports - General > Cubs by the Numbers

$14.95 ($19.95 Canada)
352 pages
Paperback Original | 6 x 9
Rights: World
B&W Illustrations : 75
Published: March 2009
ISBN: 9781602393721

AUTHORS

Matthew Silverman is co-author of Mets by the Numbers, Mets Essential, and 100 Things Mets Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die. He served as managing editor of The ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia and associate editor for The 2008 Baseball Encyclopedia. He lives in High Falls, New York.

Al Yellon directs newscasts at ABC-7 in Chicago. He is also the founder and editor in chief of the popular site, www.bleedcubbieblue.com and the editor of the annual magazine, Wrigley Field Season Ticket, published by Maple Street Press. He lives in Chicago, within walking distance of Wrigley Field.

Kasey Ignarski is founder and proprietor of the website Kasey’s Cubs Pages (ignarski.tripod.com/cubs.html), which has a listing of every Cub who has ever worn a number. He lives in Chicago.

Cubs by the Numbers

A Complete Team History of the Cubbies by Uniform Number

Al Yellon, Kasey Ignarski, and Matthew Silverman

DESCRIPTION

What do Dizzy Dean, Catfish Metkovich, John Boccabella, Bill Buckner, Mark Prior, and Kevin Hart all have in common? They all wore number 22 for the Chicago Cubs, even though seven decades have passed between the last time Dizzy Dean buttoned up a Cubs uniform with that number and the first time reliever Kevin Hart performed the same routine.

Since the Chicago Cubs first adopted uniform numbers in 1932, the team has handed out only 71 numbers to more than 1,100 players. That’s a lot of overlap. It also makes for a lot of good stories. Cubs by the Numbers tells those stories for every Cub since ’32, from 1930s outfielder Ethan Allen to current ace Carlos Zambrano. This book lists the players alphabetically and by number, but the biographies help trace the history of baseball’s most beloved team in a new way.

For Cubs fans, anyone who ever wore the uniform is like family. Cubs by the Numbers reintroduces readers to some of their long-lost ancestors, even ones they think they already know.