Growing up as a die hard Cubs fan, songwriter Steve Goodman dreamed of recording a hit song about baseball.
“Go Cubs Go” is his best known song, but he likely wouldn’t have written it if he hadn’t already written another song about the Cubs in 1981: “A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request.”
The Cubs were not initially fond of that baseball song — which poked fun at the team’s tendency to lose. So Goodman wrote “Go Cubs Go” to get back into their good graces. The song became a hit but Goodman didn’t live long enough to experience it. After undergoing treatment for leukemia for 15 years, he died in 1984 at the age of 36.
This week, we're revisiting that story.
