The Cubs Chronicle

I’ve been alerted to what looks to be an interesting new book about the Cubs: The Cubs on Catalina: A Scrapbookful of Memories About a 30-Year Love Affair Between One of Baseball’s Classic Teams & California’s Most Fanciful Isle by Jim Vitti. From the description:

The team was the Chicago Cubs. The island was Santa Catalina. The time was a unique span of 20th-century America – a span that included the sumptuous backdrops of the roaring ‘20s, the Great Depression, and World War II.

Corporate mega-giant William Wrigley owned both the island and the ballclub. And from 1921 to 1951, he put the two together. The result . . . is way better than any fiction . . . .

The Cubs would go to the island each spring to play and get in shape, among other things. The book looks to contain plenty of anecdotes and photos. I haven’t read it, so I can’t recommend it, but as I said, it looks like it might be worth checking out.