Murphy's ticket : the goofy start and glorious end of the Chicago Cubs billy goat curse

Murphy's ticket The goofy start and glorious end of the Chicago Cubs billy goat curse

Brad Herzog

Book - 2017

For 108 years, fans of Chicago Cubs baseball suffered every playofff season, with mishap after mishap each being traced back to 1945 when a friendly goat was kicked out of a World Series game. But the 2016 season felt different. Would this finally be the year that the Billy Goat Curse was reversed? Author Brad Herzog tells the story of the curse's origin and follows the Cubs right through that fateful November night in 2016 when the Cubbies could finally fly the "W."

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Subjects
Chicago Cubs (Baseball team) > History > Juvenile literature.
Literature.
Picture books.
Genres
Literature
Picture books
Published
Ann Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press [2017]
Language
English
Main Author
Brad Herzog (author)
Other Authors
David Leonard, 1979- (illustrator)
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Audience
700L
ISBN
9781585363872
Contents unavailable.
Review by Horn Book Review

A doggerel explanation of lore regarding the "Billy Goat Curse" afflicting Chicago's National League baseball team. Local saloon-owner Billy's pet goat, Murphy, was refused entrance to a 1945 World Series game, furthering what became a 108-year drought between World Series triumphs. Only those devoted to the Cubbies will suffer through the tortured scansion of Herzog's verses, and the accompanying watercolor caricatures are mildly amusing at best. (c) Copyright 2018. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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