Jim Vitti

Cubs on Catalina: a Scrapbookful of Memories About a 30-year Love Affair Between One of Baseball's Classic Team & California's Most Fanc Jim Vitti First edition

Named "Book of the Year" by The Sporting News. Now in its 10th year, The Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award is the most prestigious honor in sports publishing.

A magical place.
A magical team.
A magical time...

Every Springtime back then, the Chicago Cubs would hop a steamship for Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of sunny Southern California. The idea was to get in shape -- but the boys usually ended up sidetracked with . . .

* Movie stars, like Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, & Olivia deHavilland

* A future U. S. president, who got himself into a barroom brawl

* Pranks and fish tales and earthquakes and landslides and wild boar and just about every kind of mis-adventure you can imagine -- and then some

Their tales must be told -- with plenty of pictures. It's 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. It's 384 pages, more than 500 fabulous photos...and we hope you'd like to come along for the fun.