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Miracle Collapse: The 1969 Chicago Cubs

Miracle Collapse: The 1969 Chicago Cubs
By Doug Feldmann

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Civil unrest at home, war abroad, and political uncertainty gripped the nation as the 1970s approached. In the summer of 1969, as a tumultuous decade of American history neared its end, Major League Baseball presented sports fans with a thrilling distraction: a pennant race that pitted the Chicago Cubs, those much-loved perennial also-rans, against the defending National League champs, the St. Louis Cardinals, and the upstart New York Mets.

Miracle Collapse is the story of how one of the most talented Cubs teams ever to take the field—with Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams, and ace pitcher Ferguson Jenkins among their ranks and led by the irascible manager Leo Durocher—raced to an early division lead and a seemingly certain pennant, only to unravel spectacularly at the season’s end.

A time capsule in which baseball lore jockeys with history, Doug Feldmann’s book draws readers into the lives of these legendary Cubs players and their fierce bond with the city of Chicago. During this magical summer of baseball peaks and valleys, life goes on: Durocher “disappears” for a few days before his wedding; players leave the team midseason for National Guard duty; play is interrupted to announce man’s landing on the moon. It is against this backdrop that Miracle Collapse captures a baseball season for all time.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #367340 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-09-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 280 pages

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About the Author
Doug Feldmann, who grew up in the Chicago area, is a professor in the College of Education at Northern Kentucky University and is the author of five books. He is also a part-time scout for the Cincinnati Reds.

Customer Reviews

You have had to have lived here!4
This Cubs Choke is followed on a game by game basis.
I don't know how interesting this story is to folks who were/are not Cub fans or who were/are not White Sox fans.
A fan of the Mets has no need to read this...THEY WON.
This book is fantastic for those of us in Chicago who lived this season.
It jogs the memories. It was an incredible ride. What is fascinating is that this ballclub lives on in mythical proportion and shows what a provincial town Chicago is.

Miracle Collapse-The 1969 Chicago Cubs4
The basis of the book was a synopsis of the 1969 season in review, month by month, until the final depressing month of September when the Cubs ran out of gas. The book did not include any sort of interviews of players, coaches or fans opinions of why the Cubs did not win in 1969 or what they could have done differently to change the final outcome of the season. It basically gave a recap of the results of the games until the final outcome of the season ending failure by the Cubs.

A comprehensive, well-written piece of history 5
I truly enjoyed reading this book. It gives an in-depth summary of nearly every game of the "season that wasn't" and Mr. Feldman also documents other memorable events that occurred that summer(moon landing, Tate murders, Woodstock, etc.)which further helped to take me back to 1969.