About There and Here: Small Illinois Towns with Big Names
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Illinois Times
https://www.illinoistimes.com/springfield/small-illinois-towns-with-big-names/Content?oid=13326782
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NPR/ "The 21st"
https://will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story/happy-202nd-birthday-illinois
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NPR/WSIU "In Focus"
Metropolis Planet
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RiverBender.com (Alton)
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About Before the Ivy: The Cubs' Golden Age in Pre-Wrigley Chicago
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Nominee, Society for American Baseball Research’s Larry Ritter Book Award
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Illinois Times
"I devoured and savored every page of Before the Ivy: The Cubs’ Golden Age in Pre-Wrigley Chicago by Laurent Pernot. This book is a baseball fan’s delight... This is a glorious book."
https://www.illinoistimes.com/springfield/the-cubs-golden-age/Content?oid=11443117
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
"Pernot takes his audience back even further to the team's actual roots in the late 1860s. It is a journey worth taking for both the serious baseball historian and the casual baseball fan alike."
https://www.questia.com/read/1P3-4246835921/before-the-ivy-the-cubs-golden-age-in-pre-wrigley
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Journal of Sports History
"Pernot meticulously researched primary sources, including club records at the Chicago History Museum, as well as newspapers and pertinent secondary works to fashion a lively account of the team’s early successes."
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/614855
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NPR/WBEZ
"Brimming with stories from the earliest days of the sport in The Windy City."
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WGN radio
https://wgnradio.com/dave-plier/before-the-ivy-the-cubs-golden-age-in-pre-wrigley-chicago/amp/
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