Tuesday Evening Name That Cub

let the old men have their game :D

ruins your enjoyment of the site? Can’t you just skip over these and read whatever else interests you? Or maybe get a Cubs history book and study it, so you could participate in these entries. I’m not that much older than you, and I know most of these players and enjoy seeing entries like this.

Those who don’t know it are doomed to repeat it.

Baseball didn’t start in 1984. As a kid, I tried to learn about baseball history. It’s surprising that a fan wouldn’t want to know. Granted, Cubs history is a bit bleak….but, still…

I don’t read every fanpost.

Although, there are times those anvils could have been real useful. :-)

I remember in the late 70s when Mike Hunt played for the Green Bay Packers. His first name was Michael, but that’s the name he went by.

Never played with the Cubbies but was a coach.

….our CF’s for the next 3 years were Don Young, Cleo James, then the Brock Davis/James platoon. Really didn’t improve until Rick Monday got here in 1972. He did play quite a bit of the year end stretch in 69, can’t remember if Don Young got hurt or what.

We did get Johnny Callison for Gamble, who had a decent year in ‘70. But considering Gamble was only 19 when we traded him and really started producing in ’73 after bouncing back and forth with the Phillies and AAA for a few years and had a pretty long career, that wasn’t exactly a great trade for us.