About the site
Waiting for the Cubs, the website and blog, are inspired by the book of the same name (below), published by McFarland during the spring of 2010.
I attended my first Cub game at Wrigley Field in 1958 and have been going ever since, often watching from standing room (“The View from SRO” shown above left) or from behind a post when that’s all I can afford. My family and I spent ten (long) years — 1999 until 2009 — in “Cub exile” in Cincinnati and Pennsylvania, driving to Cub games wherever and whenever we could. The book follows our road trips during the 2008 season, and intersperses stories from 1908, the last year the Cubs won it all. It also features memories of games attended over 50 years of going to Wrigley Field, and other ballparks.
This site is designed to continue in the spirit of Waiting for the Cubs.
