Take Me Out to the Cubs Game

<p>There's too much nature in that ballpark--Harry Chiti<BR><BR></p><p></p><p> And make no mistake whether it's the wind full-tilt off Lake Michigan an early-season snowstorm at Waveland and Sheffield or spring ivy hiding the batted balls of the visiting nine nature seems to have Wrigley Field and the Cubbies under its thumb. </p><p> In this book John Skipper talks with 35 former Chicago Cubs who relive their ball-playing days and speculate on the eternally middling and undeniably popular Northsiders. This troop of now-grizzled bears including Claude Passeau Hank Wyse Alvin Dark Don Kessinger Joe Niekro Pete LaCock and slugger Hank Sauer hold forth on the front office moves gruelling day-game scheduling and sometimes agonizing play of one of baseball's oldest unluckiest and yet most revered franchises.</p>