Review: 'Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, With Baseball on the Brink,' by Kevin Cook

4.5

(452)

$ 2.00 In stock

Product Description

Customer reviews: Ten Innings at Wrigley

It was a Thursday at Chicago's Wrigley Field, mostly sunny with the wind blowing out. Nobody expected an afternoon game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs on May 17, 1979, to be much more than a lazy early-season contest matching two teams heading in opposite directions-the first-place Phillies and the Cubs, those lovable losers-until they combined for thirteen runs in the first inning. The craziest game ever, one player called it.

Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink [Book]

A news-making account of the war between David Koresh’s Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today’s militiasIn 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children.

Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias [Book]

Read into this: 30 baseball book reviews in the 30 days of April, '19 comes with some revisionist history

The Best Team Over There: The Untold Story of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Great War [Book]

Day 23 of 30 baseball book reviews for April 2019: Another Wrigley moment from 40 years ago – Tom Hoffarth's The Drill: More Farther Off the Wall

Electric October - By Kevin Cook (paperback) : Target

Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink by Kevin Cook, Paperback

The baseball books of 2019 offer a formidable lineup

AudioFile Magazine - 10 Best New Baseball Audiobooks

20 Best Baseball Players Books of All Time - BookAuthority

Rites of Passage: The Legacy of Adventure Climbing in the Sierra NevadaRock climbing throughout the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California has been going about quietly for well over a century. The exploits of its pioneers into this beautiful mountain range have been infrequently documented in a few books, alpine journals, and magazines. The experiences of climbers in this area remain elusive in comparison to more mainstream places like Yosemite.