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Sweet Lou and the Cubs: A Year Inside the Dugout
"Sweet Lou and the Cubs" chronicles from the inside-out Lou Piniella's stirring and celebrated quest to reverse the team's fortunes after a record 100 years without a World Series championship. Drawing on the story of Piniella's Cubs debut in 2007 and his history as baseball's ultimate firebrand, veteran Cubs reporter George Castle gives fans the real story behin...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
March 3rd 2009
by Lyons Press
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Eric
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Baseball fans, but NOT those looking for year-in-the-life books
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As a fan of year-in-the-life sports books such as the seminal "A Season on the Brink," about U. of Indiana basketball, or the superior "Life on the Rim" (Albany Patroons basketball) and "On the Road" (Toronto Maple Leafs hockey), I went into this book with reasonably high expectations. And I found it wanting. Although, as a Yankees fan, and baseball fan in general, I found the insights into Lou Piniella's managerial style interesting, the book's subtitle is quite mi...more
Any book with a chapter on Rich Harden and a nowhere-else-published home photo of the boy gets 4 stars in my book. (I had to take away a star for the Canadian being limited to just one chapter. Also, I'm a Cards fan)
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