Full Description
Loyal sports fans follow their teams through peaks and valleys, but in no other city have fans experienced the highs and lows of Chicagoans in the past generation. This collection of Ted Cox's greatest hits writing ""The Sports Section"" for the Chicago Reader from 1983 to 2008 constitutes an intimate history of Chicago teams during these years. From the triumphs—the six titles won by the Bulls, the Super Bowl champion 1985 Bears, and the White Sox winning the World Series in 2005—to the regularly occurring collapses of the Cubs, Cox puts his audience on the scene. He evokes the fan's experience with a level of vivid detail now nearly extinct from sports journalism. Cox writes like an ordinary observer who just happens to have excellent seats and easy access to the players and coaches. 1,001 Days in the Bleachers stands not only as a chronicle of Chicago's teams but also as a portrait of the evolution of professional sports and their place in the life of the city.
Contents
Table of Contents No Joy in Mudville ... Until Southpaw Community Tragic Heroes A Bad Case of Cubosity Celebrants History Spirit of '69 Requiem for a Ballpark The End of Some Things 'Don't Worry About Getting Hurt' Bartman Better Lucky Than Good Destiny, Ability, and Camaraderie Denying Our Own Eyes Running With the Bulls Basketball in Black and White The Shot Rising Bulls The Transformation The Zen Triangle Bringing It All Back Home Three-peat: The Jordan Is Mighty and Shall Prevail The Comeback Head Games Father's Day, Bloomsday, Championship Day Tanned by the Spotlight Doo-Doo & Shit A Sense of the Familiar The Last Shot Setting Free the Bears A Team as Great as Payton Super Bears Da Coach Outcoached Bear Furnishings Tale of the Tape Soldier Field's Inner Beauty Ridiculously Beautiful Mensches of the Midway Cold Steel on Ice (Metaphorically not Literally) Hearing the Hawks The Bleachers in Winter Blacked-out Hawks Blackhawks Family Values So Beautiful, So What? Further Afield Memories Harbor Lights That's Cricket Tyson at the Auditorium King Versus Simeon Kevin Garnett Chicago by Canoe Bloom of the Rose
