EPISODE · Apr 11, 2017 · 10 MIN
My Cubs: A Love Story by Scott Simon
from Get Your Favorite Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Sports · host Theo Kiehn
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Cubs: A Love Story Author: Scott Simon Narrator: Scott Simon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 11, 2017 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured—and now triumphant—franchise. Heartbreak and hope. Charmed and haunted. My Cubs is Scott Simon’s love letter to his Chicago Cubs, World Series winners for the first time in over a century. Replete with personal reflections, club lore, memorable anecdotes, and tales of frenetic fandom, My Cubs recounts the franchise’s pivotal moments with the wise and adoring intimacy of a long-suffering devotee and Chicago native. Simon illustrates how the condition of “Cubness” has defined the life of so many Chicagoans and how the team’s fortunes became intertwined with the aspirations of its faithful. With the curse finally broken on November 2, 2016, My Cubs is the perfect portrayal of paradise lost and found.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Cubs: A Love Story Author: Scott Simon Narrator: Scott Simon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 11, 2017 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured—and now triumphant—franchise. Heartbreak and hope. Charmed and haunted. My Cubs is Scott Simon’s love letter to his Chicago Cubs, World Series winners for the first time in over a century. Replete with personal reflections, club lore, memorable anecdotes, and tales of frenetic fandom, My Cubs recounts the franchise’s pivotal moments with the wise and adoring intimacy of a long-suffering devotee and Chicago native. Simon illustrates how the condition of “Cubness” has defined the life of so many Chicagoans and how the team’s fortunes became intertwined with the aspirations of its faithful. With the curse finally broken on November 2, 2016, My Cubs is the perfect portrayal of paradise lost and found.
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