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Wrigleyville is the popular name for Lake View, the neighborhood where the Chicago Cubs have played baseball at storied Wrigley Field for almost 100 years. But readers won't learn much about Lake View or the Cubs in this tedious, smug account of how Kaduk, only four years out of college, quit a sportswriting job at the Kansas City Star—resenting the "dues-paying tactics" of covering prep sports—and moved to Wrigleyville for the 2005 season. Kaduk's focus is on "what it means to be a twenty-something baseball fan" in "one of the top party spots in the nation." To bolster this arguable assertion, he attends 62 of the Cubs' 81 home games, providing game-by-game descriptions of where he drinks, the kind and number of the drinks he has, the drunks he drinks with and hackneyed sportswriting ("a three-run dinger to left"). While Kaduk sneers at the "privileged" yuppies who live in the neighborhood, his stories reveal nothing beyond the fact that hanging out near Wrigley Field "provides a college lifestyle for as long as anyone wants to live it," making his choice of what he claims "countless others had surely dreamed of doing" instead of working ("It really isn't for me") rather juvenile. (Apr.)
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...Wrigleyworld is guaranteed to put the phenomenon of Cubs baseball in perspective -- Wright Thompson, the Kansas City Star and ESPN: The Magazine
...Kevin's year spent in Wrigleyville touches on what it means to be a Cubs fan... -- The Kansas City Star
...[F]inally, a young man has written a young man's baseball book. -- Chris Jones, Esquire magazine
Wrigleyworld is young Kevin Kaduk's barbaric, giddy, frenzied Old-Style salute to that glorious Kingdom of Cub. -- Rick Telander, sports columnist, Chicago Sun-Times
Wrigleyworld manages the rare trick of making you want to... enter the...realm of suffering only Cubs fans truly understand. -- Mike Vacarro, author, Emperors and Idiots: The Hundred-Year Rivalry of the Yankees and Red Sox, From the Very Beginning to the End of the Curse
Wrigleyworld paints a fresh and vivid portrait of Wrigleyville and what it's really like to be a Cub fan. -- Len Kasper, WGN Television
Funny, observational and...such a great idea...that I'm actually kind of mad at him for thinking of it first. -- Will Leitch, author, Catch, and editor of Deadspin.com
In Wrigleyworld you get front row seats to the non-stop carnival of the Cubs... -- Andy Dolan, desipio.com
Kevin writes about the vibrant, block-party atmosphere like no one else I know. His love for...Chicago is unmistakable. -- Mike Holbrook, managing editor, Pro Football Weekly
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Wrigleyville is the popular name for Lake View, the neighborhood where the Chicago Cubs have played baseball at storied Wrigley Field for almost 100 years. But readers won't learn much about Lake View or the Cubs in this tedious, smug account of how Kaduk, only four years out of college, quit a sportswriting job at the Kansas City Star—resenting the "dues-paying tactics" of covering prep sports—and moved to Wrigleyville for the 2005 season. Kaduk's focus is on "what it means to be a twenty-something baseball fan" in "one of the top party spots in the nation." To bolster this arguable assertion, he attends 62 of the Cubs' 81 home games, providing game-by-game descriptions of where he drinks, the kind and number of the drinks he has, the drunks he drinks with and hackneyed sportswriting ("a three-run dinger to left"). While Kaduk sneers at the "privileged" yuppies who live in the neighborhood, his stories reveal nothing beyond the fact that hanging out near Wrigley Field "provides a college lifestyle for as long as anyone wants to live it," making his choice of what he claims "countless others had surely dreamed of doing" instead of working ("It really isn't for me") rather juvenile. (Apr.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review
...Wrigleyworld is guaranteed to put the phenomenon of Cubs baseball in perspective -- Wright Thompson, the Kansas City Star and ESPN: The Magazine
...Kevin's year spent in Wrigleyville touches on what it means to be a Cubs fan... -- The Kansas City Star
...[F]inally, a young man has written a young man's baseball book. -- Chris Jones, Esquire magazine
Wrigleyworld is young Kevin Kaduk's barbaric, giddy, frenzied Old-Style salute to that glorious Kingdom of Cub. -- Rick Telander, sports columnist, Chicago Sun-Times
Wrigleyworld manages the rare trick of making you want to... enter the...realm of suffering only Cubs fans truly understand. -- Mike Vacarro, author, Emperors and Idiots: The Hundred-Year Rivalry of the Yankees and Red Sox, From the Very Beginning to the End of the Curse
Wrigleyworld paints a fresh and vivid portrait of Wrigleyville and what it's really like to be a Cub fan. -- Len Kasper, WGN Television
Funny, observational and...such a great idea...that I'm actually kind of mad at him for thinking of it first. -- Will Leitch, author, Catch, and editor of Deadspin.com
In Wrigleyworld you get front row seats to the non-stop carnival of the Cubs... -- Andy Dolan, desipio.com
Kevin writes about the vibrant, block-party atmosphere like no one else I know. His love for...Chicago is unmistakable. -- Mike Holbrook, managing editor, Pro Football Weekly
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Everyone has a story about moving to Wrigleyville, and this is mine: After I'd spent three years in Kansas City, the phone calls became a regular occurrence, arriving on sunny, weekend afternoons, when I was escaping the oppressive sun with a blasting air conditioner and a Cubs game on WGN. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wrigley Field, Red Sox, White Sox, World Series, Billy Goat, Harry Caray, New York, Cubby Bear, Derrek Lee, Opening Day, Sue Ellen, Kansas City, Mark Prior, North Side, Ron Santo, Lake Michigan, Old Style, Ryne Sandberg, San Francisco, Clark Street, Full Shilling, National League, Polish Joe, Ronnie Woo, South Side New!
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Everyone has a story about moving to Wrigleyville, and this is mine: After I'd spent three years in Kansas City, the phone calls became a regular occurrence, arriving on sunny, weekend afternoons, when I was escaping the oppressive sun with a blasting air conditioner and a Cubs game on WGN. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wrigley Field, Red Sox, White Sox, World Series, Billy Goat, Harry Caray, New York, Cubby Bear, Derrek Lee, Opening Day, Sue Ellen, Kansas City, Mark Prior, North Side, Ron Santo, Lake Michigan, Old Style, Ryne Sandberg, San Francisco, Clark Street, Full Shilling, National League, Polish Joe, Ronnie Woo, South Side New!
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