"Biz Talk with Jim Campbell" - The Chicago Cubs Break the Curse & Darryl Strwberry Breaks the Curse of Drugs

“Anybody can have a Bad Century”….The Curse of the Chicago Cubs…108 Years without a Championship…UNTIL…Last Year…And then a Powerfully Honest Interview with former Major League Baseball great Darryl Strawberry on Addiction …

First Up…

Rich Cohen is a fellow transplanted Chicagoan…He is the author of the New York Times bestseller: “Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football” – for which he was a guest on our show…He is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair Magazine.

His new Book – Just-in-Time for the Baseball Playoffs and Just Maybe Another run by the Cubbies: “The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse”.

And Then...

 “I never had a problem hitting. I had a problem living.”

·       Darryl Strawberry    

Darryl Strawberry was a power-hitting outfielder with the big smooth swing. A star for the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. He played also for the Dodgers, San Francisco Giants and the Yankees. He hit 335 Home Runs and had exactly 1,000 RBIs over a 17 year career and was en route to Cooperstown and the Baseball Hall of Fame when his career was derailed by substance-abuse problems.

His new Book, is not a baseball book…it’s written with addiction experts – “Don’t Give Up on Me: Shedding Light on Addiction”.