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Eric Klinenberg
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Eric Klinenberg is professor of sociology at New York University. He is the author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (University of Chicago Press 2002) and Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media (Metropolitan Books, 2007). His essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, the Wall Street Journal, the Nation, and on This American Life.

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A Cubs Boy, in the Shadow of the Yankees

Posted November 12, 2009 | 09:17 PM (EST)

Originally posted at NYMag.com


I grew up on the North Side of Chicago during the seventies and eighties and was raised to love the woeful Cubs. Spare me your pity. Sure, my team never came close to a pennant. (They still haven't.) But we adapted. My grandmother,...

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