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The Chicago Cub Shot for Love: A Showgirl's Crime of Passion and the 1932 World Series
Jack Bales
In the summer of 1932, with the Cubs in the thick of the pennant race, Billy Jurges broke off his relationship with Violet Popovich to focus on baseball. The famously beautiful showgirl took it poorly, marching into his hotel room with a revolver in her purse. Both were wounded in the ensuing struggle, but Jurges refused to press charges. Even without their star shortstop, Chicago made it to the World Series, only to be on the wrong end of Babe Ruth's legendary Called Shot. Using hundreds of original sources, Jack Bales profiles the lives of the ill-fated couple and traces the ripple effects of the shooting on the Cubs' tumultuous season.
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Access for All: Creating Partnerships at the University of Mary Washington
Alison Grimes and Danielle Smith
This resource was created as additional support for our faculty, staff and students at the University of Mary Washington. The Access for All resource provides information and guidance around working with students who choose to self-disclose a disability. In addition, it provides direct information on finding and creating accessible materials, and the accessibility of commonly used online platforms.
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Before They Were the Cubs : The Early Years of Chicago's First Professional Baseball Team
Jack Bales
Founded in 1869, the Chicago Cubs are a charter member of the National League and the last remaining of the eight original league clubs still playing in the city in which the franchise started. Drawing on newspaper articles, books and archival records, the author chronicles the team’s early years. He describes the club’s planning stages of 1868; covers the decades when the ballplayers were variously called White Stockings, Colts, and Orphans; and relates how a sportswriter first referred to the young players as Cubs in the March 27, 1902, issue of the Chicago Daily News. Reprinted selections from firsthand accounts provide a colorful narrative of baseball in 19th-century America, as well as a documentary history of the Chicago team and its members before they were the Cubs.
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