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1,001 Days in the Bleachers: A Quarter Century of Chicago Sports

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Loyal sports fans follow their teams through peaks and valleys, but in no other city have fans experienced the highs and lows of Chicagoans up to now generation. This choice of Ted Cox’s greatest hits writing “The Sports Section” for the Chicago Reader from 1983 to 2008 constitutes an intimate history of Chicago teams all the way through these years. From the triumphs—the six titles won by the Bulls, the Super Bowl champion 1985 Bears, and the White Sox winning the World Series in 2005—to the often occurring collapses of the Cubs, Cox puts his audience at the scene. He evokes the fan’s experience with a level of vivid detail now nearly extinct from sports journalism. Cox writes like an atypical observer who just happens to have superb seats and easy get entry to to the players and coaches. 1,001 Days within the Bleachers stands not only as a chronicle of Chicago’s teams but additionally as a portrait of the evolution of professional sports and their place within the life of the city.


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