Hal Bock was a sports writer and columnist with The Associated Press for over 40 years. During that time he covered 30 World Series, none of them including the Cubs. After retiring, Bock became an adjunct professor of journalism at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus. He is the author of thirteen books, including Willard Mullin’s Golden Age of Baseball Drawings and the text for The Associated Press Pictorial History of Baseball.

Veteran sports writer Hal Bock does an impressive job of chronicling how the team was put together and why that level of success couldn't be sustained.... Just as delightful, though, is the way the early chapters illuminate how strikingly different baseball was in the early 20th century.... This book is a timely reminder of the first time [the Cubs] ruled the baseball universe.

• Foreword by Joe MantegnaAcknowledgmentsCast of CharactersChronologyChapter 1: Prelude to a DynastyChapter 2: Assembling the DynastyChapter 3: Who’s Hitless Now?Chapter 4: RevengeChapter 5: Once More with FeelingChapter 6: 104 Wins Are Not EnoughChapter 7: And Then . . .Chapter 8: Curses, Cats, and Other CalamitiesChapter 9: After the DynastyChapter 10: Faces of the Franchise—Old and NewChapter 11: The Other GuysChapter 12: Where They Played—Then and NowNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Hal Bock was a sports writer and columnist with The Associated Press for over 40 years. During that time he covered 30 World Series, none of them including the Cubs. After retiring, Bock became an adjunct professor of journalism at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus. He is the author of thirteen books, including Willard Mullin’s Golden Age of Baseball Drawings and the text for The Associated Press Pictorial History of Baseball.

Veteran sports writer Hal Bock does an impressive job of chronicling how the team was put together and why that level of success couldn't be sustained.... Just as delightful, though, is the way the early chapters illuminate how strikingly different baseball was in the early 20th century.... This book is a timely reminder of the first time [the Cubs] ruled the baseball universe.

• Foreword by Joe MantegnaAcknowledgmentsCast of CharactersChronologyChapter 1: Prelude to a DynastyChapter 2: Assembling the DynastyChapter 3: Who’s Hitless Now?Chapter 4: RevengeChapter 5: Once More with FeelingChapter 6: 104 Wins Are Not EnoughChapter 7: And Then . . .Chapter 8: Curses, Cats, and Other CalamitiesChapter 9: After the DynastyChapter 10: Faces of the Franchise—Old and NewChapter 11: The Other GuysChapter 12: Where They Played—Then and NowNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Hal Bock was a sports writer and columnist with The Associated Press for over 40 years. During that time he covered 30 World Series, none of them including the Cubs. After retiring, Bock became an adjunct professor of journalism at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus. He is the author of thirteen books, including Willard Mullin’s Golden Age of Baseball Drawings and the text for The Associated Press Pictorial History of Baseball.

Veteran sports writer Hal Bock does an impressive job of chronicling how the team was put together and why that level of success couldn't be sustained.... Just as delightful, though, is the way the early chapters illuminate how strikingly different baseball was in the early 20th century.... This book is a timely reminder of the first time [the Cubs] ruled the baseball universe.

• Foreword by Joe MantegnaAcknowledgmentsCast of CharactersChronologyChapter 1: Prelude to a DynastyChapter 2: Assembling the DynastyChapter 3: Who’s Hitless Now?Chapter 4: RevengeChapter 5: Once More with FeelingChapter 6: 104 Wins Are Not EnoughChapter 7: And Then . . .Chapter 8: Curses, Cats, and Other CalamitiesChapter 9: After the DynastyChapter 10: Faces of the Franchise—Old and NewChapter 11: The Other GuysChapter 12: Where They Played—Then and NowNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author