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Cubs on Catalina: a Scrapbookful of Memories About a 30-year Love Affair Between One of Baseball's Classic Team & California's Most Fanc Jim Vitti First edition
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Cubs on Catalina: a Scrapbookful of Memories About a 30-year Love Affair Between One of Baseball's Classic Team & California's Most Fanc
Jim Vitti
Named "Book of the Year" by The Sporting News. Now in its 10th year, The Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award is the most prestigious honor in sports publishing.
A magical place.
A magical team.
A magical time...
Every Springtime back then, the Chicago Cubs would hop a steamship for Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of sunny Southern California. The idea was to get in shape -- but the boys usually ended up sidetracked with . . .
* Movie stars, like Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, & Olivia deHavilland
* A future U. S. president, who got himself into a barroom brawl
* Pranks and fish tales and earthquakes and landslides and wild boar and just about every kind of mis-adventure you can imagine -- and then some
Their tales must be told -- with plenty of pictures. It's The Cubs on Catalina: A Scrapbookful of Memories About a 30-Year Love Affair Between One of Baseball's Classic Teams...& California's Most Fanciful Isle. It's 384 pages, more than 500 fabulous photos...and we hope you'd like to come along for the fun.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 1, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780974242408 |
| Publishers | Settefrati Press |
| Pages | 384 |
| Dimensions | 212 × 25 × 288 mm · 1.27 kg |
| Language | English |
