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“George Will is as serious about
baseball as he is about the Constitution or foreign policy…A Nice Little Place on the North Side is replete with the amusing
trivia that in baseball constitutes lore.”
— Wall Street Journal
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“Fond yet surprisingly
hard-hitting…an intelligent, tough little book.”
— USA Today
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“Will’s bow-tied, button-down prose
wears quite well in this, his third insightful book about baseball, after Men at Work and Bunts. His eye for the game remains warm and acute, as do his
conservative instincts.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“George Will on baseball. Perfect.”
— Los Angeles Times
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“George Will is the most elegant of
today’s political essayists, and with Men
at Work, Bunts, and this tribute
to Chicago, the ballpark that graces it, and the fans who pack it to root for
its hapless team, he can be counted among the best baseball writers to come
down the pike.”
— Washington Times
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“A Nice Little Place on the North Side qualifies as the most fitting
possible tribute to a field with ivy-covered walls that continues to enthrall a
seventy-year-old award-winning commentator just as it once did a callow nine-year-old
boy in Champagne, Illinois. A Barnes & Noble editor’s recommendation.”
— Barnes&Noble.com, editorial review
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“George F. Will’s wonderful book A Nice Little Place on the North Side
reads like a history of a ballpark, but it’s really a fan’s interrogation of
the most harrowing riddle: Why can’t the Cubs win?…[Will is] one of the great
baseball writers.”
— Commentary
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“[Will’s] latest, A Nice Little Place on the North Side, will
sit solidly on the bookshelf with his previous baseball classics….As is always
the case with Will, readers are treated to a mix of history, anecdotes,
vignettes, cultural analysis, various informative diversions, and much wry
humor.”
— American Spectator
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“Will offers a rambling, gently
amusing history of the team since it moved in. With few triumphs to write
about, Will focuses on some of the dominant and/or quirky personalities
associated with the team through the years…Will also delivers brief but
revealing examinations of longtime team owner P. K. Wrigley, players Phil
Cavarretta and Hack Wilson, and manager Leo Durocher…This ode to the team and
its home field will make a very pleasant read for baseball fans in general and
Cub fans in particular.”
— Booklist
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Fond yet surprisingly hard-hitting…an intelligent, tough little book.
— USA Today
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George Will is as serious about baseball as he is about the Constitution or foreign policy…. A Nice Little Place on the North Side is replete with the amusing trivia that in baseball constitutes lore.
— Wall Street Journal
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America’s leading poet of baseball
— Chicago Tribune, Printers Row Journal
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George F. Will’s wonderful book A Nice Little Place on the North Side reads like a history of a ballpark, but it’s really a fan’s interrogation of the most harrowing riddle: Why can’t the Cubs win?...[Will is] one of the great baseball writers.
— Commentary
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“Will’s bow-tied, button-down prose wears quite well in this, his third insightful book about baseball, after Men at Work and Bunts. His eye for the game remains warm and acute, as do his conservative instincts.
— New York Times Book Review
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George Will is the most elegant of today’s political essayists, and with 'Men at Work,' 'Bunts' and this tribute to Chicago, the ballpark that graces it, and the fans who pack it to root for its hapless team, he can be counted among the best baseball writers to come down the pike…
— The Washington Times
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[Will’s] latest, A Nice Little Place on the North Side, will sit solidly on the bookshelf with his previous baseball classics…. As is always the case with Will, readers are treated to a mix of history, anecdotes, vignettes, cultural analysis, various informative diversions, and much wry humor.
— The American Spectator
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George F. Will is as eloquent on baseball as he is on politics.
— AARP Bulletin
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Required reading
— New York Post