Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club

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  • Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club Book Detail

  • Author : Roberts Ehrgott
  • Release Date : 2013-04-01
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Genre : Sports & Recreation
  • Pages : 511
  • ISBN 13 : 080326478X
  • File Size : 37,37 MB

Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club by Roberts Ehrgott PDF Summary

Book Description: Chicago in the Roaring Twenties was a city of immigrants, mobsters, and flappers with one shared passion: the Chicago Cubs. It all began when the chewing-gum tycoon William Wrigley decided to build the world’s greatest ball club in the nation’s Second City. In this Jazz Age center, the maverick Wrigley exploited the revolutionary technology of broadcasting to attract eager throngs of women to his renovated ballpark. Mr. Wrigley’s Ball Club transports us to this heady era of baseball history and introduces the team at its crazy heart—an amalgam of rakes, pranksters, schemers, and choirboys who take center stage in memorable successes, equally memorable disasters, and shadowy intrigue. Readers take front-row seats to meet Grover Cleveland Alexander, Rogers Hornsby, Joe McCarthy, Lewis “Hack” Wilson, Gabby Hartnett. The cast of characters also includes their colorful if less-extolled teammates and the Cubs’ nemesis, Babe Ruth, who terminates the ambitions of Mr. Wrigley’s ball club with one emphatic swing.

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