автор: Jim McArdle

Jim McArdle is a Chicago-area native who graduated from Columbia College in the South Loop and began a career in sports journalism in 1987. Following nine years covering community sports for suburban weekly newspaper chains, he joined the Chicago Cubs» publications department in 1996. Ascending to manager of the department in 2000, he helped make Vine Line, the ballclub»s monthly magazine, one of the most respected publications in professional sports and covered the team»s playoff runs in 1998, 2003, and 2007. In early 2008, he left his job with the Cubs and spent the baseball season writing this memoir.