{"id":146122,"date":"2019-06-19T11:23:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=146122"},"modified":"2019-06-19T11:23:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:23:46","slug":"bales-discusses-the-chicago-cubs-origins-on-sports-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2019\/06\/19\/bales-discusses-the-chicago-cubs-origins-on-sports-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Bales Discusses The Chicago Cubs Origins on Sports Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><figure id=\"attachment_141272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141272\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/7661-K-Pearlman-Photography.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-141272\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/7661-K-Pearlman-Photography-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"UMW Reference and Humanities Librarian Jack Bales has written a new book, &quot;Before They Were the Cubs: The Early Years of Chicago&rsquo;s First Professional Baseball Team.&quot; It's due out this spring. Photo by Karen Pearlman.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/7661-K-Pearlman-Photography-300x200.jpg 300w, \/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/7661-K-Pearlman-Photography-768x512.jpg 768w, \/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/7661-K-Pearlman-Photography-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UMW Reference and Humanities Librarian Jack Bales has written a new book, &ldquo;Before They Were the Cubs: The Early Years of Chicago&rsquo;s First Professional Baseball Team.&rdquo; Photo by Karen Pearlman.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Reference and humanities librarian and baseball historian Jack Bales (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/31CkPqr\"><em>Before They Were the Cubs: The Early Years of Chicago&rsquo;s First Professional Baseball Team<\/em><\/a>) was interviewed by the Good Seats Still Available podcast to delve into the surprisingly rich history of Major League Baseball&rsquo;s long-time North Side Chicago franchise well <em>prior<\/em> to 1903, when they formally adopted their now-signature nickname.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/goodseatsstillavailable.com\/listen\/2019\/6\/15\/episode-117-the-chicago-cubs-origin-story-with-jack-bales\">http:\/\/goodseatsstillavailable.com\/listen\/2019\/6\/15\/episode-117-the-chicago-cubs-origin-story-with-jack-bales<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_141273\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141273\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Before_They_Were_the_Cubs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-141273\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Before_They_Were_the_Cubs-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bales' new book covers the Cubs' formative years.\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Before_They_Were_the_Cubs-210x300.jpg 210w, \/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Before_They_Were_the_Cubs.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bales&rsquo; new book covers the Cubs&rsquo; formative years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference and humanities librarian and baseball historian Jack Bales (Before They Were the Cubs: The Early Years of Chicago&rsquo;s First Professional Baseball Team) was interviewed by the Good Seats Still Available podcast to delve into the surprisingly rich history of Major League Baseball&rsquo;s long-time North Side Chicago franchise well prior to 1903, when they formally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":141272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[1401,823],"class_list":["post-146122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-jbales","tag-simpson-library","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}