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Coming-of-Age Near the 1940s Chicago Baseball Scene

Ernie’s Bleachers was clearly a passion project for author Tim Pareti, whose family owned the Ernie’s Bleachers tavern in Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood just across from Wrigley Field. It’s the tavern that became Ray’s Bleachers, home of the 1969 Bleacher Bums, and then Murphy’s Bleachers, which is still going strong eight decades…
Dennis Hetzel
August 17, 2022
Nonfiction

A reader’s guide to the no-baseball blues

“I just look out the window and wait for spring to come,” Baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby once said, when asked how he passed time during the off-season. As a certified baseball nut, I know the feeling. But here’s a more constructive idea: pull up a chair and delve…
Lee Lowenfish
January 2, 2014

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