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The Armchair Companion to Chicago Sports

by Richard Lindberg

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A fun-filled book that brings together for the first time the significant events in Chicago sports history. In addition to baseball, football, basketball, and hockey, it covers such "minor" sports as tennis, ice-skating, golf, bowling, horseracing, running, and sailing. This is a look at the athletes, their accomplishments, and the games they played.

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Book details

Author
Richard Lindberg
Imprint
Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Formats
Hardcover, Paperback
Subjects
Sports & Recreation › History
Sports & Recreation › Reference
Topics
Chicago sports history · Chicago Bulls · Chicago Bears · Chicago White Sox · Chicago Cubs · Chicago Blackhawks · sports reference · athletes and accomplishments
ISBN-13
9781630269982 (Hardcover)9781681620237 (Paperback)

About the author

RICHARD C. LINDBERG is an award-winning author, journalist, and lecturer who has written more than twenty books on Chicago history, politics, biography, true crime, criminal justice, sports, and ethnicity. His recent books include Whiskey Breakfast: My Swedish Family, My American Life and The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago’s Democratic Machine.

Lindberg has received the Society of Midland Authors Award for best biography and the Chicago Writers Association Nonfiction Book of the Year. He also served as head writer and senior editor for the Edgar Award-winning Encyclopedia of World Crime, and has held the presidency of both the Society of Midland Authors and the Illinois Academy of Criminology.

Richard lives in Chicago.

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Format: Hardcover