My Cubs: A Love Story Audiobook (Free)

NPR’s Scott Simon’s personal, heartfelt reflections on his much loved Chicago Cubs, replete with golf club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and smart and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball’s most tortured-and at this point triumphant-franchise.

Heartbreak and wish. Charmed and haunted. My Cubs is certainly Scott Simon’s love letter to his Chicago Cubs, World Series winners for the first time in over a hundred years. Replete with personal reflections, golf club lore, unforgettable anecdotes, and tales of frenetic fandom, My Cubs recounts the franchise’s pivotal occasions with the wise and adoring intimacy of the long-suffering devotee and Chicago native. Simon illustrates how the condition of “Cubness” has defined the life of a lot of Chicagoans and how the team’s fortunes became intertwined using the dreams of its faithful. Using the curse finally broken on November 2, 2016, My Cubs may be the ideal portrayal of paradise lost and discovered.