Chicago Cubs Firsts: The Players, Moments, and Records That Were First in Team History

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Al Yellon Pat Hughes

Chicago Cubs Firsts

The Players, Moments, and Records That Were First in Team History

Al Yellon, Pat Hughes

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English

The Lyons Press
04 June 2024

Baseball

Series: Sports Team Firsts

In the more than 150-year-history of the Chicago Cubs, fans have been treated to countless firsts— the first manager of the franchise (Albert Spalding), the first Cub to make 3,000 hits (Cap Anson), the first night game at Wrigley (August 9, 1988 vs. the Mets), the first to hit 500 home runs (Ernie Banks), and the first Cubs pitcher to win the Cy Young Award (Ferguson Jenkins). The list goes on.

In Chicago Cubs Firsts, Al Yellon presents the stories behind the firsts in Cubs history in question-and-answer format. More than a mere trivia book, Yellon’s collection includes substantive answers to the question of “who was the first…?” on a variety of topics, many of which will surprise even seasoned fans of the Cubbies.

By: Al Yellon
Foreword by: Pat Hughes
Imprint: The Lyons Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9781493074518
ISBN 10: 1493074512
Series: Sports Team Firsts
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 04 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Al Yellon is the author of A Season for the Ages, a chronicle of the Cubs' 2016 World Series run, and co-author (with Matthew Silverman and Kasey Ignarski) of Cubs By The Numbers, a lighthearted trip through Cubs history via uniform numbers. A Chicago area-native and former television director at Chicago's ABC-7, Yellon is a lifelong Cubs fan and the managing editor of Bleed Cubbie Blue, part of the SB Nation network.