NPR’s Scott Simon’s personal, heartfelt reflections on his much loved Chicago Cubs, replete with membership lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the globe champ Cubbies baseball’s most tortured-and right now triumphant-franchise.

Heartbreak and wish. Charmed and haunted. My Cubs is usually Scott Simon’s love letter to his Chicago Cubs, World Series winners for the first time in over a century. Replete with personal reflections, club lore, memorable anecdotes, and stories of frenetic fandom, My Cubs recounts the franchise’s pivotal occasions with the smart and adoring intimacy of the long-suffering devotee and Chicago native. Simon illustrates the way the condition of “Cubness” offers defined the life of a lot of Chicagoans and the way the team’s fortunes became intertwined with the aspirations of its faithful. Using the curse finally damaged on November 2, 2016, My Cubs may be the ideal portrayal of heaven lost and discovered.