Murphy's Ticket: The Goofy Start and Glorious End of the Chicago Cubs Billy Goat Curse

by Brad Herzog, David Leonard (Illustrator)

Overview

For 108 years, fans of Chicago Cubs baseball suffered every playofff season, with mishap after mishap each being traced back to 1945 when a friendly goat was kicked out of a World Series game. But the 2016 season felt different. Would this finally be the year that the Billy Goat Curse was reversed? Author Brad Herzog tells the story of the curse's origin and follows the Cubs right through that fateful November night in 2016 when the Cubbies could finally fly the "W."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781585363872
Publisher:	Sleeping Bear Press
Publication date:	07/15/2017
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,081,326
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

Editorial Reviews

10/01/2017
K-Gr 4—Most baseball and sports fan will know about the history-making win of the Chicago Cubs at the 2016 World Series, but do they know that the "Lovable Losers" were once believed to be cursed? The story of Murphy the Goat and the billy goat's curse is the stuff of legends in the Second City, but even those familiar with the details will be enthralled by the rollicking rhymes describing the fateful events that brought on the curse. Fans will become believers all over again as they read about season after dreadful season. Told in three alternating rhymed quatrains per page and peppered with North Side jargon, the narration is well executed. This title adds to Herzog's repertoire of successful sports offerings (2004's H Is for Home Run: A Baseball Alphabet). Whimsical full-page illustrations inject pain into the team's woeful times and revelry into their fortunate ones, providing an old-fashioned feeling throughout the tale. VERDICT A grand slam of an ode to the Chicago Cubs. Consider wherever sports and underdog stories are popular.—Brittany Drehobl, Eisenhower Public Library District, Harwood Heights, IL

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