Review of
How Many Next Years Do You Get In
Baseball?, by Jeff MacNelly, ISBN 0933893515
Five out of five stars
Great expressions of Cub fans frustration
Published in
1988, this book predates by a great deal the Cubs triumph in the World Series
of 2016, their first since 1908. Over the years, there have been a few good
teams, but for the most part, it has
been a history of mediocrity. This book is a collection of cartoons by MacNelly
that feature the Shoe character and the Chicago Cubs.
The cartoons
are about baseball, how some people love it, and others find it boring, and
what it is like to root for a team that seems incapable of winning it all. They
poke fun at many aspects of baseball fandom along with other aspects of life. Even
if you are not a diehard Cubs fan, you will be amused by the situations
depicted in these well-drawn and texted cartoons.
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