Friday Name That Cub

by Al Yellon on Jan 9, 2009 8:14 AM CST in Name That Cub

Milton Bradley is signed. Mark DeRosa and Jason Marquis are traded. If any more acquisitions are to be made, it may be a while.

So while we're waiting, and while it's puking snow this morning in Chicago, see if you can identify this handsome young Cub. (Apologies for the small size of the photo.)

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Don Zimmer?

by bison on Jan 9, 2009 8:16 AM CST reply actions

Man, you ruined all the fun.

I thought this one would take a while.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 9, 2009 8:17 AM CST up reply actions

Here's the larger version of the photo.

It was taken in 1961 when Zim was a player for the Cubs — that was his only All-Star season.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 9, 2009 8:20 AM CST up reply actions

Wow-never seen him as a young man

Okay, just so I understand it... in your wildest fantasy, you are in hell. And you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil.

by bren on Jan 9, 2009 9:22 AM CST up reply actions

His youth is a myth.

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by neverAcquiesce on Jan 9, 2009 12:05 PM CST up reply actions

Can't be.

There’s photographic evidence right there.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 9, 2009 1:24 PM CST up reply actions

And a dinosaur really attacked Jeff Goldblum.

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by neverAcquiesce on Jan 9, 2009 2:53 PM CST up reply actions

Carl Everett disagrees.

"Enough foreplay- let's get crackin'"- Fred Garvin

by davidalanu on Jan 9, 2009 3:07 PM CST up reply actions

Never heard that

but god bless wikipedia.

You know, the god who didn’t create dinosaurs.

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by neverAcquiesce on Jan 9, 2009 3:23 PM CST up reply actions

Carl Everett would love the Mythbusters rerun I DVR'd this week

They debunked some of the more popular “evidence” that the moon landing was a hoax.

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on Jan 9, 2009 3:51 PM CST up reply actions

That episode was fantastic

and it probably would have driven “Jurassic Carl” crazy.

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. - Ryne Sandberg

by Bill Potter on Jan 9, 2009 4:25 PM CST up reply actions

Yes, that was brilliant.

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by neverAcquiesce on Jan 10, 2009 9:46 AM CST up reply actions

Just watched the "lead balloon" one

That wasn’t too bad, either

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on Jan 10, 2009 9:47 AM CST up reply actions

It's one of those programs

I hate when they show marathons of cos there goes my day.

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by neverAcquiesce on Jan 10, 2009 11:08 AM CST up reply actions

Yeah, I can see that

I never watched it much until this fall . . . now I’m hooked. I blame Kari . . . .

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on Jan 10, 2009 5:39 PM CST up reply actions

Did you know an ex-Cub was in that movie?

I’m talking about Jurassic Park. Can you guess who?

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 9, 2009 3:56 PM CST up reply actions

Jophery Brown?

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. - Ryne Sandberg

by Bill Potter on Jan 9, 2009 4:30 PM CST up reply actions

Jophery C. Brown

by heine41 on Jan 9, 2009 4:34 PM CST up reply actions

Excellent work, both of you.

Jophery Brown made one appearance for the 1968 Cubs, pitching two innings and allowing one run.

For most of the last 30 or so years he has been a renowned Hollywood stuntman, and also has had bit acting roles in some films. In “Jurassic Park” he was the park worker who got eaten by the raptor.

Here’s his page at the Internet Movie Database. Quite an impressive film career.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 9, 2009 4:57 PM CST up reply actions

Huh.

You learn stuff everyday at BCB.

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by neverAcquiesce on Jan 10, 2009 9:44 AM CST up reply actions

Should I have just posted...

first?

I mean, it’s all about the jowls with Popeye. Hard to hide.

by bison on Jan 9, 2009 8:19 AM CST reply actions

There's a small jowl, but I thought with him looking so skinny and all... it would fool everyone for a while, at least.

Here, try this one instead:

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 9, 2009 8:21 AM CST up reply actions

Actually, for me it was the eyes...

those beady little gerbil eyes… ;-)

Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."

by ballhawk on Jan 9, 2009 8:27 AM CST up reply actions

So Zim really hasn't changed in over 45 years...

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 9, 2009 8:38 AM CST up reply actions

I don't see Pedro charging toward him in these photos...

hehe…

Brian McRae's 5 o'clock shadow

by PurpleLineToWrigley on Jan 9, 2009 9:03 AM CST up reply actions

That might have been the most bizarre brawl ever.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Jan 9, 2009 9:16 AM CST up reply actions

Saturday Night Live did a pretty funny parody of it.

I couldn’t find a clip of that, but here’s a short clip of the actual incident. The whole thing is just awkward.

RIP Ron Asheton (1948-2009)

by daver on Jan 9, 2009 9:30 AM CST up reply actions

my niece gave me a martinez

t-shirt that year. I refused to wear it after that event.

"Truth does not do as much good in the world as the semblance of truth does evil," - Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 64.

by Emelie on Jan 9, 2009 11:56 AM CST up reply actions

You know, Zim apologized and took the blame for it

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on Jan 9, 2009 12:03 PM CST up reply actions

yeah but

it just didn’t sit well with me to have a young but toss a 70 something man around like that

"Truth does not do as much good in the world as the semblance of truth does evil," - Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 64.

by Emelie on Jan 9, 2009 2:54 PM CST up reply actions

er... "young buck"

"Truth does not do as much good in the world as the semblance of truth does evil," - Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 64.

by Emelie on Jan 9, 2009 2:54 PM CST up reply actions

Fair enough

And I knew what you meant — I didn’t think that you had any problems with young “buts” from what I’ve read! ;-)

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on Jan 9, 2009 3:52 PM CST up reply actions

I seem to have an obsession with but(t)s

"Truth does not do as much good in the world as the semblance of truth does evil," - Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 64.

by Emelie on Jan 10, 2009 6:14 AM CST up reply actions

But you also have an excellent sense of humor

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on Jan 10, 2009 9:48 AM CST up reply actions

:-D

"Truth does not do as much good in the world as the semblance of truth does evil," - Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 64.

by Emelie on Jan 10, 2009 12:35 PM CST up reply actions

I'm amazed....

Even I got this one, and I’m terrible at this sort of thing!

And it really IS true – Zim looks just as he did way back when. Maybe he has a special baseball card in the attic?

"[I]f we get a Jumbotron, I can't pull the instant replay thing on all the rookies. Every time there's a good play, we're like, 'Oh, look at the replay,' and you get the rookies to look at the scoreboard." - Ryan Dempster, 2 January 2009

by CaughtInTheVines on Jan 9, 2009 9:11 AM CST reply actions