Brad Herzog

This book is a nice telling of why the curse came about for the cubs and caused their hundred-year-long losing streak. Growing up in Illinois and knowing this curse existed but not knowing why or how it came about was weird to me and to this day I think this curse is still odd.
A bar owner finds a goat and claims him as his pet and names him murphy. The goat and the bar owner did everything together and one day the bar owner wanted to take his goat to a cubs game while they were in the world series. The cubs had already been terrible years prior to the owner bring his goat to the game. When arriving to the stadium the staff at the stadium said that the goat could not stay and would have to leave, but the bar owner was not going to leave his goats side so as they were leaving the old man said that the cubs would a horrendous losing streak. This is what started the curse and cubs fans tried everything including bringing upon a goat of their own but nothing worked and the cubs kept losing. That was until the 2016 season of the MLB when the Cubs won game 7 of the world series beating the Cleveland team 8 to 7. This was to have said to break Murphy's curse.… (mehr)

I was not the biggest fan of this book but it is not the most hated book I have ever read. I was already familiar with a lot of the things they used for the letters. I wish they had made it rhyme because I think it would have made it feel like it went by faster and more interesting. Also, the fun fact on the sides made it feel less for a kid learning their ABCs and more for older kids who are sports enthusiasts.
This book is a football book that follows the alphabet . Each letter has a word or phrase for example the letter "A" was "amazing athletes". For each letter, they had something that went with the letter like a fun fact or additional information that the author felt we need to know. The additional information retained what the letter was about like "D" had to with defense so the additional information was about defensive lineman.… (mehr)