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Informationen zum Autor Jeff Morris was born in the late 70s in Cincinnati, Ohio, so will likely die in the 2040s or 2050s. He graduated with a degree in writing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 2000 and has been interested in paranormal phenomena since 2005. In 2006, he founded a ghost tour in Miamitown, Ohio, with his brother, which still runs to this day. This is Jeff’s fourth book. He published his first book, Haunted Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio, in 2009 and has published 1 book per year since then with Cincinnati Haunted Handbook in 2010, Nashville Haunted Handbook in 2011, and Twin Cities Haunted Handbook in 2012. Jeff currently resides in Cincinnati with his wife and two children who will likely die in 2062, 2089, and 2101, respectively. Vince Sheilds was born in Elgin, Illinois, in 1984. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2002 and, upon discharge in 2006, moved to Chicago, where his fascination with the paranormal really took form. There he formed his website for Chicago Paranormal Investigators with his teammates. They started investigating local haunted hot spots, Chicago favorites, and private homes. Klappentext EXCERPTS Wrigley Field 1060 West Addison Street, Chicago, Illinois 60613 Directions: From the center of Chicago, take I-90 West for 2 1/2 miles to exit 48A, the Armitage Avenue exit. Turn sharp right onto West Armitage Avenue and then take your second left onto North Ashland Avenue. Follow Ashland for 2 miles before turning right onto West Addison Street. Wrigley Field will be on your left after a little more than a half a mile. History: A little more than a month before being elected President of the United States, Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt sat in the stands at Wrigley Field. It was game 3 of the 1932 World Series. It was the top of the fifth inning. After having fallen behind 3-0 in the first inning, the home team, the Chicago Cubs had fought back to tie the game at 4. Charlie Root was on the mound as Yankees slugger Babe Ruth stepped up to the plate. Ruth opted not to swing at the first pitch that caught the strike zone and smacked the catcher s mitt. The stadium erupted into applause and taunts were extended from the Cubs bench. The next two pitches missed the zone then the fourth pitch again caught the zone and the stadium erupted into cheers. The count was 2-2. Then something unheard of happened. Only in baseball where the rules never change, where a game played in 1932 could be the same game played today and where a story can be passed down from generation to generation without becoming antiquated, can something like this happen and the legend live on like it has. As Root prepared to pitch, Ruth extended the index finger on his right hand and pointed towards center field. Root delivered. Ruth swung and connected. Few who were there that day or who would hear about that hit would dispute that, as the ball sailed over the center field wall, this was the stuff of legend and despite how audacious or pretentious calling his home run might have been, Babe Ruth is and will always be remembered for that home run. The Cubs would get swept in that series. It wouldn t be the last World Series that they would lose. As any Cubs fan knows, they hold the record for the longest drought between world championship wins in professional sports. They have not won a World Series since 1908. They have never won a World Series since they moved to Wrigley Field in 1916 two years after it was built. In Chicago though, this doesn t matter. Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan. Even though they haven t won the championship for more than 100 years, they will always have their fans. The fans are there through the good times and the bad, through the legendary moments and the quiet seasons that fade into history. They stand by their Cubs in the oldest stadium in the National League and the second oldest stadium in professional baseball, Wrig...
