Scott Simon, 'My Cubs: A Love Story'

Simon, the award-winning host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, is a life-long Cubs fan. His heartfelt and vivid memoir of growing up in Chicago reflects on how the team shaped the neighborhood and the city, and how it influenced the boy Simon was and the man he grew up to be. Known as “the lovable losers” for their historic run of bad luck (or was it a curse?), the Cubs nonetheless inspired devoted followers and rewarded fans’ patience with their 2016 World Series win. Simon, also the author of Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball and Windy City, a novel of Chicago, relives the championship’s unforgettable seventh game, delves into Cubs lore, cites stats, and tells stories.

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@26:40 is so true and I can relate to that. In no way am I Cubs fan by any means but growing up as a kid in the 80's & 90's I remember vacationing to the Wisc Dells and remember arriving mid day around 1 pm on a hot sunny 85 degree day at one of the restaraunt bars on the lake- we would go through the bar area to go out to the outside deck and do lunch off by the 9 & the Cubs game would always be on and I can still hear Harry Carray walking through the bar area to get out to the deck. And remember there would always be like 3 or 4 guys sitting at the bar with their Old Styles or Bud's watching the game. Def some fond memories of this as a kid.