What If the Cubs Had Been a Winning Team?
In a new e-book that will captivate Cubs fans, a Morton Grove sportswriter riffs on 10 key decisions in Cubs history, and how they could have turned out differently. Read this excerpt, which has Ray Kroc buying the team in 1973 and making it a winner.
Patch contributor George Castle, a 23-year Morton Grove resident, just authored his 11th sports book, which presents 10 “what if’s” in Cubs history. Alou Makes the Catch: An Alternative History of the Chicago Cubs plays off real persons and events to show how the star-crossed team’s championship drought might have been broken on several occasions since 1908. In this excerpt, Castle sketches what might have happened had McDonalds founder Ray Kroc—who in the real timeline tried but failed to buy the Cubs in the early 1970s—actually succeeded in the off-season of 1973-74 as a disconsolate Philip K. Wrigley opted to finally sell. EXCERPT FROM GEORGE CASTLE'S ALOU MAKES THE CATCH As the postseason-1973 housecleaning of veterans proceeded, the …
