Cubs-Sox book

[Dan Writer]

I am a White Sox fan and have written three books on the team. However, I am now writing a book that will cover both teams. The main theme of the book is the competition between the two teams and their fans. I would like to interview Cub fans to contribute to the book.

 

What I truly need from Cub fans is these things: I want to know why and how they became Cub fans, their biggest memories, their description of the entire Wrigley Field experience and just about anything else you can think of including Sox-Cub games if you attended any. This is a historical book so it would be great to go far back as possible.

 

It will be okay to knock Sox tradition. But I won't be interested in quotes like "sox suck." As long as anyone has something to add to the debate, I'll listen. Regardless, I would really like to hear from Cub fans. They know Cub history better than I do.

 

I can be reached through my email at Helpingstine8150@sbcglobal.net. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Dan Helpingstine

[imb]

ok let us know when the white sox get a tradition, i will be sure to knock it

[CubinNY]

ok let us know when the white sox get a tradition, i will be sure to knock it

Their fans' tradition for the last 27 years has been to obsess about the Cubs.

[BigbadB]

WGN and Wrigley Field are probably the two biggest influences for being Cub fans. It certainly helped having Jack Brickhouse, Lou Boudreau, Harry Caray, among others calling games.

 

If the Cubs never had WGN or Wrigley Field, I'm not so sure the Cubs would have lasted in Chicago. This was a team that was just horrible for too long to mention. I'm talking about the time before Ernie Banks mostly, but even in the mid 70's to early '80's, this was a really bad team supported by fans who liked day baseball in a great park.

 

The Cubs made fans all across America with their superstation televised day games of Cub baseball. Retired people and kids on summer break from school didn't have to tune into some stupid soap opera. They could watch some really bad baseball on WGN. And they fell in love with it. They eventually learned the names of all the players on the team and started rooting for all these guys in a city they didn't even live in to play well, only to typically be disappointed. The lovable losers.

 

WGN was only 1 of a small handful of channels people received with your cable package. Nowadays, my cable channels go all the way up to 1000. The timeliness of the superstation made a tremendous impact on the popularity of a really bad team.

 

I was hooked the day Milt Pappas threw his no hitter. My grandfather never watched a baseball game in his life before he retired. WGN turned him into a huge Cub fan.

 

The White Sox never got that, and they've played second fiddle to the Cubs all of these years. What hasn't helped them over the years is that they were a poorly run organization as well.

 

I'll let someone else run with it from here.

[UMFan83]

I am a White Sox fan and have written three books on the team.

 

I'm sorry to hear that.

 

 

 

(I know, I know 2005)

[B]

What are you trying to help Stine do?

[Old Style]

From what I remember as a kid getting free tickets to Comiskey for straight A's and perfect attendence, White Sox tradition is getting Howry faced and beating each other bloody in the stands because the game was so boring. But the shorts that the team wore were real purty.

[CubmanPi]

My granny lived on Addison Street about three miles up from Wrigley, and she made it tradition to have my brothers and me come in from suburbia to visit on our birthday weekends. My birthday was in August, and her side of the family was the biggest influence on my being a Cubs fan, so the weekend centered more on which weekend the Cubs were in town than on when my birthday was. (One brother's bday is also August, and one's is February. Not coincidentally, the February brother is the least enthusiastic Cubs fan of the trio.) Going to Cubs games with her was always the highlight of my summers growing up, and they were the only games I ever got to attend throughout childhood.

[Dan Writer]

I am a White Sox fan, but in regards to this book I'm a journalist first. I was hoping that Cubs fans would want to talk about the history of their team as it pertains, but I see from the most of the posts here, that isn't going to happen. Sorry I asked.

[satxcubfan]

As a journalist, I'm sure you know that you have to filter through a bunch of crap to find substance. Don't give up based on only a handful of silly comments. BBB provided a good start to what you asked for. There are many of us here who can actually build upon that. Give it some time.

[UK1679666180]

I am a White Sox fan, but in regards to this book I'm a journalist first. I was hoping that Cubs fans would want to talk about the history of their team as it pertains, but I see from the most of the posts here, that isn't going to happen. Sorry I asked.

 

I don't want to waste your time with some wise crack about the Sox and their fans, whom I both respect.

 

But... before contributing, I decided to google your name.

 

http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/rwas/index.php?category=2&id=2242

 

So instead of contributing a story or making a stupid remark about the Sox, I declined to comment.

[Z38Cubs]

I am a White Sox fan, but in regards to this book I'm a journalist first. I was hoping that Cubs fans would want to talk about the history of their team as it pertains, but I see from the most of the posts here, that isn't going to happen. Sorry I asked.

 

I don't want to waste your time with some wise crack about the Sox and their fans, whom I both respect.

 

But... before contributing, I decided to google your name.

 

http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/rwas/index.php?category=2&id=2242

 

So instead of contributing a story or making a stupid remark about the Sox, I declined to comment.

 

Haha, go F yourself Dan.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I am a White Sox fan, but in regards to this book I'm a journalist first. I was hoping that Cubs fans would want to talk about the history of their team as it pertains, but I see from the most of the posts here, that isn't going to happen. Sorry I asked.

 

I don't want to waste your time with some wise crack about the Sox and their fans, whom I both respect.

 

But... before contributing, I decided to google your name.

 

http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/rwas/index.php?category=2&id=2242

 

So instead of contributing a story or making a stupid remark about the Sox, I declined to comment.

 

After reading that, I'm certain that he will approach his book on the Cubs with much journalistic integrity and an unbiased view.

[Banedon]

I am a White Sox fan, but in regards to this book I'm a journalist first. I was hoping that Cubs fans would want to talk about the history of their team as it pertains, but I see from the most of the posts here, that isn't going to happen. Sorry I asked.

 

I don't want to waste your time with some wise crack about the Sox and their fans, whom I both respect.

 

But... before contributing, I decided to google your name.

 

http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/rwas/index.php?category=2&id=2242

 

So instead of contributing a story or making a stupid remark about the Sox, I declined to comment.

 

Haha, go F yourself Dan.

 

I don't care who he is, this is innappropriate for this board, and against member guidelines. Don't do it again.