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  • The Chicago Cub Shot For Love

    A Showgirl's Crime of Passion and the 1932 World Series

    by Jack Bales ...
    In the summer of 1932, with the Cubs in the thick of the pennant race, Billy Jurges broke off his relationship with Violet Popovich to focus on baseball. The famously beautiful showgirl took it poorly, marching into his hotel room with a revolver in her purse. Both were wounded in the ensuing struggle, but Jurges refused to press charges. Even without their star shortstop, Chicago made it to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Before They Were the Cubs

    The Early Years of Chicago's First Professional Baseball Team

    by Jack Bales ...
    Founded in 1869, the Chicago Cubs are a charter member of the National League and the last remaining of the eight original league clubs still playing in the city in which the franchise started. Drawing on newspaper articles, books and archival records, the author chronicles the team's early years. He describes the club's planning stages of 1868; covers the decades when the ballplayers were ... Read more

    $21.39 USD