Stuart Shea

About two hundred of the 410 pages before one arrives at the installation of the Ivy...

And yet, you somehow don't mind. This book is about Wrigley Field as an evolving place where baseball is played, rather than a book about the baseball or even the Cubs. That said, there are plenty of baseball stories, most every season gets a little bit of love, and often many individual games see extended descriptions. Ultimately, though, this book traces the development of the part through its four show more iterations--Weeghman, the Wrigleys, the Tribune, the Ricketts era.

Along the way, you learn some interesting things--for instance, how critical the Tribune's ownership was to the ubiquity of the Cubs on TV (WGN was owned by the same company). One wishes that the Tribune had written a longer TV contract clause into their sale of the Team to the family Ricketts.

If you love going to baseball games on the North Side of Chicago, it is hard to put this book away. If you don't, it might read like a chronological list of stuff going on at a place you don't like with teams you don't care for. Choose wisely? show less

A very nice and detailed account of one of the greatest rock bands in history. Full of witty remarks and interesting side notes, this book details the great success and quarreling egos of rock's most mysterious band.

Nice little book of music trivia. Makes good reading when you just want to read a little bit here and there.