Ken Heard, fellow blogger over at his thoughtful site Love, Life, and APBA Baseball, asked me a couple days ago if I had read The Golden Era Cubs by Eddie Gold and Art Ahrens. He knew of of my status as a long-suffering Cubs fan and wanted to send the book to me.
I just got the book in the mail over the weekend and wanted to express my thanks to Ken. Thanks not only for the book but for how it was packaged.
There was a nice note…
He included two Cubs baseball cards! A 1989 Jamie Moyer Topps card and a 1990 Mark Grace Bowman card. Nice touch!
…and I don’t know if this was a coincidence or intentional but smack dab in the middle of the newspaper wrapping was this headline…
Maybe Ken recollects that Strasburg is my franchise pitcher on my Twin City Thunderchickens or maybe not.
Many thanks to Ken Heard! For those who don’t know Ken, I did a Fan Profile of him a while back. I’m looking forward to reading The Golden Era. Maybe it give me hope that the Cubs can rule again. I told Ken that once I’m done with it, I would re-gift the book to APBA Blog co-writer Scott Fennessy who might appreciate it as well.
I’m keeping the the cards though.
