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Roberts Ehrgott has written a graceful, engrossing account of an era in which the Cubs, while already falling short of winning the World Series, built a national following in the age of flash, flappers, mobsters, molls, bank runs and breadlines. - Scott Simon, <em>Chicago Tribune</em><br><br> A fun read ... full of anecdote and color. Recommended for fans of the Cubs or Chicago or baseball history. - <em>Library Journal</em><br><br> What sets the book apart from many set in baseball is how Roberts Ehrgott handles the context in which the fun and games transpired. In the '20s, Chicago was certainly the Cubs, but it was also Al Capone, and, as Ehrgott writes, Chicagoans venturing to other parts of the country and abroad learned that their city was becoming a byword for mayhem and violence. ... Chicago's dizzy baseball hopes and dreams seem especially poignant against the background of the onset of the Great Depression. - Bill Littlefield, <em>Boston Globe</em>

Roberts Ehrgott does first-rate work as a baseball historian and storyteller in his addictive, entertaining Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club . He captures 1920s baseball and Jazz Age America in all its swinging, sweaty, booze-soaked charm. A real winner. --Jonathan Eig, New York Times best-selling author of Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig and Get Capone --Jonathan Eig (10/01/2012)

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Roberts Ehrgott has written for and edited several national publications, including the Saturday Evening Post. He served as a historical consultant for Mark Jacob and Stephen Green’s Wrigley Field: A Celebration of the Friendly Confines.

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