Banks to Sandberg to Grace: Five Decades of Love and Frustration with the Chicago Cubs

Author	Carrie Muskat
Brand	Unbranded
Format	Paperback
ISBN	9780071385565
Publication Date	01/02/2002
Publisher	McGraw-Hill Contemporary

This book is a compilation of first-person accounts from the past 50 years of Cubs baseball. The book is divided into five sections: players, fans, team, media, and business. Each section has its own individual storyteller. Some of the storytellers include Hank Sauer, Yosh Kawano, Ryne Sandberg, and Arne Harris. The book also has a foreword by Chicago sportswriter Bob Verdi.

Banks to Sandberg to Grace brings together more than 60 first-person accounts from the past 50 years of Cubs baseball. Each of the storytellers whose voices are heard throughout shares his or her personal, revealing account of what it was like to play or work for the Cubs. Hank Sauer laughs about fans in the bleachers throwing tobacco at him. The team's longtime equipment manager, Yosh Kawano, talks about gaining the trust and friendship of players such as Ryne Sandberg. And WGN-TV producer Arne Harris reminisces about sharing an earpiece with Jack Brickhouse and Harry Caray. Includes a foreword by Chicago sportswriter Bob Verdi.