The Cubs way : the zen of building the best team in baseball and breaking the curse /

It took 108 years, but it really happened. The Chicago Cubs are once again World Series champions. How did a team of untested young players and carefully selected veterans come together to break the longest championship drought in professional sports? Beginning with Theo Epstein's first season...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Verducci, Tom (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Crown Archetype, [2017]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Epstein, Theo, > 1973- Maddon, Joe, > 1954- Chicago Cubs (Baseball team) Chicago Cubs (Baseball team) > Management. World Series (Baseball) > (2016) SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History. SPORTS & RECREATION / Coaching / Baseball. SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects.

Table of Contents:

Prelude to seven
Ready for change
The first piece
Game 1
The plan
That's Cub
Game 2
The beast
The recruit
Broad Street Joey
Game 3
The zen of Joe
Game 4
Flipping the culture
Game 5
Embrace the target
Game 6
Seven
Interlude
Heaven.