The Jewish songwriter never got to see his beloved hometown team get to a World Series. You’ve likely never heard of Steve Goodman. The late Jewish singer, who released at least 10 albums of folk ...

It has now become a part of the traditions associated with Wrigley Field. In the immediate wake of a Cubs home win, the “W” ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Folk singer Steve Goodman's "Go Cubs Go," about his beloved Chicago Cubs, is a hit decades after he died -- and months after his relatives sold the rights to his song collection. That ...

When the Chicago Cubs win home games, the crowd sings this song... (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GO CUBS GO") UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: (Singing) Go, Cubs, go. Go, Cubs, go. Hey ...

As a Cubs fan till the day he died in 1984, Steve Goodman might well have appreciated the bittersweet deal: Months before the Cubs’ first World Series title since 1908 made his 32-year-old “Go Cubs Go ...

With the Mariners failing (yet again) to make the postseason, the national pastime in this part of the woods has taken secondary interest to Seahawks and Cougars and all things football. I, too, lost ...

As the Cubs walked off Progressive Field Wednesday night, World Series victors for the first time since Al Capone was nine years old, the thousands of fans who had traveled to Cleveland to see them ...

In retrospect, the heroic artist that Steve Goodman echoed most movingly across his 1971-1983 recording career, in both his own sentiments and his audience’s connections with him, was Jimmie Rodgers, ...

Steve Goodman, who died from leukemia in 1984 at age 36, has now been gone for as many years as he lived. Today, it's likely that some folk fans don't even recognize his name, while others think of ...

Forget for a moment about whether the Chicago Cubs can break the 71-year-old Curse of the Billy Goat by winning its World Series bid against the Cleveland Indians. The team’s very presence in the ...

The latter song, which debuted in 1981, begins by describing a fictional character on his deathbed by the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, dreaming of a “doubleheader funeral in Wrigley Field.” But ...

Steve Goodman is the man responsible for “Go Cubs Go,” a song that’s been the anthem his beloved team since 1984. NPR’s Scott Simon talks to Goodman’s biographer Clay Eals about the singer’s life.