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The Best Team Ever: A Novel of America, Chicago, and the 1907 Cubs

Alan Alop

Paperback | Pages: 503 pages

Rating: 3.77 | 13 Users | 5 Reviews

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Title	:	The Best Team Ever: A Novel of America, Chicago, and the 1907 Cubs
Author	:	Alan Alop
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 503 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2008 by BASCOM Hill (first published August 15th 2008)
Categories	:	Sports. Baseball. Nonfiction

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This baseball book, crime drama, and love story follows the 1907 Chicago Cubs from the Practice Season to the World's Championship Series. The team of Tinker to Evans to Chance. And Three Finger Brown, owner of the game's best curve ball. Rookie Kid Durbin rides the bench and writes a journal as the Cubs play a near-perfect brand of baseball against the backdrop of a wild, corrupt Chicago and a transforming America. Madmen, saints and sinners on the diamond and off parade through the pages of this historical novel.

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Original Title:	The Best Team Ever - A Novel of America, Chicago, and the 1907 Cubs
ISBN:	1935098020 (ISBN13: 9781935098027)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.1907cubs.com/
Setting:	United States of America

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Do you like baseball stories? Are you a Chicago Cubs fan? Do you like history of early twentieth century? Then you will love this fictional story of a young Cubs pitcher in 1907 interwoven with Chicago and actual baseball players

I saw a book called "The Best Team Ever" and it was about the Cubs during their dynasty years. So, naturally I wasted no time getting it. Two pages into this book I realized something wasn't right. Turns out it is a historical fiction book, more fiction than historical, about the 1907 Cub Championship season. There is so much fiction in this book that I now question whether the Cubs won the World Series in 1907. If for some reason you are reading or going to read this book skip all parts that

As a lifelong Chicagoan and diehard Cub fan I found the authors did a grand job of mixing 90% fact with just enough fiction to make a compelling story. The best "Cubs" book since Warren Brown's in 1946.

This book is historical fiction - a huge disappointment as I could only get a copy through InterLibrary Loan. Good job Goodreads reviews in saving me from more time down the drain!I had thought it might be a narrative history of the 1907 Cubs, in the vein of Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, which I highly recommend. I have shelved this in zz-books-I-ve-decided-not-to-read, because while I'm interested in the 1907 Cubs, I'm



I don't think it would be fair to give this book a rating since I didn't finish it - but I tried to get into it, but it never got going. The only reason I bought this book was because they didn't have it at the library, which may have been a sign that I shouldn't read it... I regret the purchase.I saw a book called "The Best Team Ever" and it was about the Cubs during their dynasty years. So, naturally I wasted no time getting it. Two pages into this book I realized something wasn't right. Turns out it is a historical fiction book, more fiction than historical, about the 1907 Cub Championship season. There is so much fiction in this book that I now question whether the Cubs won the World Series in 1907. If for some reason you are reading or going to read this book skip all parts that