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Five Minutes With Chris Christensen
Friday, December 19, 2008 at 11:11PM 
Chris Christensen with baseball artwork by R. Kenton NelsonMy Brush with the Cubs:
To my knowledge the closest I've come to a Cub is when I sat five rows behind the plate at Wrigley in a game against the Dodgers in 1985.
Who Were You?:
I was Eddie Mathews; I loved the Milwaukee Braves of the fifties when I was growing up in Marion, Iowa.
Working On:
An article on basketball. I recently started shooting hoops again after 30 years. I can shoot with either hand and this got me into trouble once in the seventies when I was showing off to a bunch of strangers who took umbrage and reacted violently. I paid for the sin of pride.
Day jobs:
I've had about 25 jobs in my life, if you include gigs in the Air Force and Peace Corps. If success is defined by quantity, my professional career has been sterling; if it's defined by professional advancement, I'm an abject failure--but a happy one.
Literary figure I'd hire to manage the Cubs:
Yossarian.
The Cub I'd most want to live in my basement:
I wouldn't want anyone to live in my basement, even a hypothetical Cub.
Most Cherished Cub Memory:
When I was about 10 years old, my dad and mom and my sisters were in the car in Cedar Rapids, when we turned a corner. On a big billboard there was an advertisement for "CUB MOVING AND STORAGE." Already in love with baseball, when I saw that word Cub, I got a thrill.
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Want more Chris?
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Read "Back, Back, Back," Donald Evans' profile of him
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