The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse
by: Verducci, Tom

Hardcover. NY, Crown Archetype, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 375 pages with index of names. Illustrated. General Manager Theo Epstein in 2012 joined the Chicago Cubs - a baseball team that had not won a National League pennant since 1945 and not won a World Series in ober a century. Here is the story of how Epstein rebuilt the team, hired manager Joe Maddon after the 2014 season, and how the Cubbies finally broke the "Curse of the Billy Goat" to win the 2016 World Series. Clean copy.