ChicagoHamburg30

ChicagoHamburg30

Chicago Sports: White Sox, Cubs, Bears, and Bulls plus FC St. Pauli

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Both Chicago and Hamburg are great sports cities, so today we're discussing the history of Chicago sports with a detour through St. Pauli.

Andrew Sola and his expert guests (Peter Alter from the Chicago History Museum as well as Elliott Gorn from Loyola University-Chicago) discuss the following points:

-FC St. Pauli

-Promotion and Relegation in European Soccer

-Pro Sports Cartels in the US vs. the 50+1 Supporter-Control Rule in Germany

-The Role of Money in Modern Sports

-The Pathology of Supporting Losing Teams

-The White (Black) Sox Match-Fixing Scandal of 1919

-The Chicago Cubs

-The Chicago Bears

-Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls

Between recording this episode and its release, the 2024 White Sox did indeed become the worst team in the modern history of Major League Baseball. On a brighter note, FC St. Pauli did win an away game. However, they still have not won or even scored a goal at home.

The rant by Chicago Cubs Manager Lee Elia can be found here (explicit!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pai2QQA54

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About this podcast

The year 2024 marks the 30-year anniversary of the Chicago-Hamburg Sister-City Partnership. Join us in celebrating the special relationship with this 30-episode podcast series about the history, culture, literature, music, and people of Chicago. Guests will include scholars, journalists, writers, musicians, and thinkers who all have a special affection for Chicago, Hamburg, and the transatlantic relationship. We will launch our first episode in January 2024.

The podcast is sponsored by the Amerikazentrum-Hamburg, a non-partisan, not-for-profit institute dedicated to increasing transatlantic understanding and strengthening transatlantic relations. The podcast is produced by Andrew Sola. The hosts are Andrew Sola and Douglas Cowie. Wouter Verhulst of The Soundary composed the theme song. Henning Christiansen designed the logo.

The podcast logo evokes an enduring symbol of Chicago, the Ferris wheel, the first of which was built for the World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago in 1893. The Ferris wheel is also the centerpiece of the Hamburger Dom, Hamburg's carnival, held three times a year in the heart of the city. The stars on the wheel represent the stars on the city flags of Chicago and Hamburg.

by Amerikazentrum-Hamburg and Andrew Sola

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