Bury my heart at Wrigley Field: The history of the Chicago Cubs [Hardcover]

Larry D Names (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Sportsbook Pub. Co (1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0962168408
• ISBN-13: 978-0962168406
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,148,685 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Larry Names is a prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction books. He is a recognized authority on the Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, and Green Bay Packers. Names has had 36 titles published to date, 21 of them novels, and the remainder non--fiction all dealing with sports teams or sports figures.
He resides in central Wisconsin with his wife Peg on a family farm that has been in his wife's family since 1854. They have a son, Torry, and a daughter, Tegan, four cats and an escape-artist horse, Lucky Moondancer. Larry has four children from his first marriage: daughter Sigrid, son Paul, daughter Kristin, and daughter Sonje.
The author was born in Mishawaka, Indiana and has lived in nine different states during his life and went to eleven schools growing up. He is an avid researcher and traveler.
Besides being an avid history buff, he is also an informed and enthusiastic sports fan and memorabilia collector.
Names researches his novels and non-fiction extensively. As he puts it, "I can't write about a place I haven't seen or touched." He and his family have averaged two months of travel a year since he took up writing full-time in 1976. They often log more than 30,000 miles annually. The settings for his books range from Mexico to Florida to New York to Colorado to Arizona and almost every place in between.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book ever written about the early history of the Cubs., June 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Bury My Heart at Wrigley Field: The History of the Chicago Cubs : Part One : When the Cubs Were the White Stockings (Paperback)

Fascinating! Full of detail about the earliest days of the Chicago Cubs. Dates back to the very beginnings of baseball and follows the history of baseball in Chicago through 1886.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Cubs wish they were the White Sox, July 28, 2005

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Dan H "Dan" (NW Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bury My Heart at Wrigley Field: The History of the Chicago Cubs : Part One : When the Cubs Were the White Stockings (Paperback)

While the 19th Century era "When the Cubs Were the White Stockings" may be of interest to desperate Cubs fanatics, I feel this book holds little general interest, and none for White Sox fans who have plenty to cheer about in the 21st Century.