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Book excerpt from 'Sweet Lou'

By Melissa Isaacson
Special to ESPNChicago.com

Friday, June 19, 2009

This excerpt from "Sweet Lou ... Lou Piniella: A Life in Baseball" is printed with the permission of Triumph Books. This passage recounts Piniella's first season with the Cubs in 2007. While Piniella was generally pleased with his new club, telling Jim Hendry when the GM asked if there was anything else he needed, "No, we have all the ingredients," he was surprised at the lack of fundamentals, despite what he had been told. Running into longtime Chicago TV and radio personality David Kaplan ...

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