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 variously called White Stockings, Colts, and Orphans;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476674671
• ISBN13: 9781476674674
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher