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All Cub fans know from heartbreak and curse-toting goats. Fewer know that, prior to moving to the north side in 1916, the team fielded powerhouse nines that regularly claimed the pennant. Before the Ivy offers a grandstand seat to a golden age:BEHOLD the 1871 team as it plays for the title in nine different borrowed uniforms after losing everything in the Great Chicago FireATTEND West Side Grounds at Polk and Wolcott with its barbershop quartetMARVEL as superstar Cap Anson hits .399, makes extra cash running a ballpark ice rink, and strikes out as an elected officialWONDER at experiments with square bats and corked balls, the scandal of Sunday games and pre-game booze-ups, the brazen spitters and park dimensions changed to foil Ty CobbRAZZ Charles Comiskey as he adopts a Cubs hand-me-down moniker for his team's nameTHRILL to the poetic double-play combo of Tinker, Evers, and Chance even as they throw tantrums at umpires and punches at each otherCHEER as Merkle's Boner and the Cubs' ensuing theatrics send the team to the 1908 World SeriesRich with Hall of Fame personalities and oddball stories, Before the Ivy opens a door to Chicago's own field of dreams and serves as every Cub fan's guide to a time when thoughts of "e;next year"e; filled rival teams with dread.
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