Chicago Cubs - Baseball on Catalina Island

It's not quite like today's spring training: one might find a rookie ballplayer (nicknamed Hack) uprooting trees with his bare hands or a future president of the United States getting into a barroom brawl with some grizzled sportswriters. The team was the Chicago Cubs, and the place was Santa Catalina Island-through the Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, and World War II. William Wrigley owned both island and ballclub; from 1921 to 1951, they came together. There were movie stars, like Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe. There were grand steamships, big bands, hopes and dreams, and World Series rings. It's Chicago Cubs: Baseball on Catalina Island, and it's a trip like no other.

About the author

Jim Vitti has written several baseball books and received the Sporting News/Society for American Baseball Research Award in 2004. He has been a freelance writer for more than 20 seasons and can occasionally be found sitting at the ballpark in Avalon-wishing it was the spring of 1937.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Vitti
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.04.2010
• EAN: 9780738577951
• ISBN: 978-0-7385-7795-1
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 231 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Images of Baseball; Images of Baseball
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous