Hoodoo: Unraveling the 100 Year Mystery of the Chicago Cubs

by Grant Deporter

True story of how a hoodoo that afflicted the Chicago Cubs for over 100 years was revealed and ultimately---according to the author--exorcized by Cub fans around the world through a series of discoveries, rituals, and hoodoo cleansing events. A story of goats, black cats, Red Sox, White Sox, superstitions and at least one incredible account of voodoo. Ground Zero for Cubs fans near and far.

Genres: Nonfiction

175 pages, Hardcover

First published August 15, 2008

Reviews

[Nick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Grant Deporter, owner of Harry Carry's Restaurant, researches the existence of "The Cub Curse." Funny and interesting!

[Joseph · Rating 1 out of 5]

So this is what a book written by committee looks like. Actually, it reads more like something you might find on the back of a menu, but stretched out by hundreds of pages. Which is fitting, given that I'm pretty sure it's just a promotional pamphlet for the Chicago restaurant that somehow features so prominently in the story.

I've heard the curse stories about the Cubs more times than I care to count, and I thought this book would probably be just more of the same, but it's incompetently written (at one point, the authors tell the same story about Ernie Banks three times over the course of about five pages) and settles on a curse explanation that is about a thousand times less interesting than the Billy Goat.