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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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