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It's not quite like today's spring training: one might find a rookie ballplayer (nicknamed Hack) uprooting trees with his bare hands or a future president of the United States getting into a barroom brawl with some grizzled sportswriters. The team was the Chicago Cubs, and the place was Santa Catalina Island-through the Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, and World War II. William Wrigley owned both island and ballclub; from 1921 to 1951, they came together. There were movie stars, like Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe. ...

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Chicago Cubs: Baseball on Catalina Island 2010, Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

ISBN-13: 9781531651572

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Chicago Cubs: Baseball on Catalina Island 2010, Arcadia Publishing (SC), Charleston, SC

ISBN-13: 9780738577951

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