Friday 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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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
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
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.
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
And a dinosaur really attacked Jeff Goldblum.
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by neverAcquiesce on Jan 9, 2009 2:53 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
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
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
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
Huh.
You learn stuff everyday at BCB.
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by neverAcquiesce on Jan 10, 2009 9:44 AM CST up 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
Actually, for me it was the eyes...
those beady little gerbil eyes… ;-)
Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."
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
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
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
damn
do you have another one??
Erm, well if we are going to call Milton Bradley nicknames, mine is Fischer Price: yes, you heard it here first..
Lousy Cub Catcher
Fellow named Merritt Ranew? BTW, my first Cub game was April 26th, 1961 and I saw Zim win that game with a 10th inning “walk off” homer!
"It's a funny old world. Man's lucky if he gets out of it alive." W.C. Fields
all morning
I’ve been trying to make him into Ken Rudolph……I knew it was some sort of catcher.
"This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings." -- Bill Veeck
It is on the homepage.
On the left bar under “Staff”.
Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
thanks for the update...
…let us know when you send it, get a reply, and then delete the email.
Nobody cares about your fantasy baseball team
by carmen_fanzone on Jan 9, 2009 1:01 PM CST up reply actions
LOL
Nobody cares about your fantasy baseball team
by carmen_fanzone on Jan 9, 2009 1:16 PM CST up reply actions
I got the email... I think.
I got an email from someone who sent a pic, but I’m not sure if it’s Clutche or not.
Also, he didn’t send the answer — and it’s stumped me!
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

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