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With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior football copy writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and influenced the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their epic voyage to become World Series champions. It got 108 years, but it surely took place. The Chicago Cubs are once again World Series champions. How have a team composed of unknown young players and supposedly washed-up veterans get together to break the Curse of the Billy Goat? Tom Verducci, double named National Sportswriter of the Year and cowriter of The Yankee Years with Joe Torre, will have full usage of team chief executive Theo Epstein, director Joe Maddon, and the players to share the storyplot of the Cubs' transformation from perennial underachievers to the best team in football. Beginning with Epstein's first 12 months with the team in 2011, Verducci will show how Epstein gone beyond "Moneyball" thinking to turn round the franchise. Leading the organization with a manual called "The Cubs Way", he centered on the mental aspect of the game approximately the physical, emphasizing chemistry as well as statistics. To perform his goal, Epstein needed director Joe Maddon, an eccentric innovator, as his counterweight on the Cubs' bench. A man who promotes themed road journeys and late-arrival game days and nights to take it easy his team, Maddon combined New Age thinking with Old College management to help his players find their advantage. The Cubs Way requires listeners behind the displays, chronicling how key players like Rizzo, Russell, Lester, and Arrieta were deftly helped bring into the business by Epstein and coached by Maddon to outperform targets. Collectively, Epstein and Maddon turned out that clubhouse culture is as important as on-base percentage and this intangible components like personality, vibe, and positive energy are necessary for a team to execute to their fullest potential. Verducci chronicles the playoff run that culminated immediately classic Game Eight. He requires a broader look at the history of football in Chicago and the almost supernatural aspect to the team's repeated loses that stored fans suffering but also dished up to reinforce their loyalty. The Cubs Way is a special event of an iconic team and its journey to a global Championship that followers and listeners will value for years to come.
