Ebook: Before Wrigley became Wrigley: the inside story of the first years of the Cubs' home field

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Chapter One -- The Cubs and the North Side, Day One; Chapter Two -- The Chicago Theological Lutheran Seminary Lot; Chapter Three -- Lucky Charley Weeghman; Chapter Four -- Charles Webb Murphy; Chapter Five -- Joe Tinker and the Federal League; Chapter Six -- Weeghman and the War; Chapter Seven -- Crisis Management; Chapter Eight -- Murphy and Evers; Chapter Nine -- Groundbreaking on the North Side; Chapter Ten -- The Battle of the Dock; Chapter Eleven -- "The Fellows from the North Side Were Actuated with Pride.";"The scrambled construction of Weeghman Park in 1914 is at the heart of Before Wrigley became Wrigley : the inside story of the first years of the Cubs' home field. The book will explore the early years of Wrigley Field, when it bore a different name and housed a different team. Sean Deveney has mined documents and resources from baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, as well as the Chicago History Museum, to supplement the reports in newspapers and magazines of the day, giving readers a behind-the-scenes look at the origins and birth pangs of the park"--