Sports history is made all the time—and most of it consists of phenomena that rank at the level of Trivial Pursuits: x number of homeruns, y number of strikeouts, a few hundredths of a second here ...
Jack Rakove
Jack Rakove teaches history and political science at Stanford University. His most recent book, A Politician Thinking: The Creative Mind of James Madison (2017), is dedicated in part to the 2016 Chicago Cubs, for fulfilling “the hope that springs eternal in the human breast.” 