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Baseball history unpacked, February 21

A thrice-weekly look at #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB history. This one will have no official at-bat.

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On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue brings a you a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and deep dives into various narratives that expand over the course of time. Here’s a handy Cubs timeline, to help you follow along. We also add a bit of world history, for perspective’s sake.

Today in baseball history:

Cubs birthdays: Joe Hughes, Ted Savage, Tsuyoshi Wada, Adam Greenberg*, Ian Miller. Also notable: Alan Trammell HOF.

*pictured.

Today in history:

  • 1173 - Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • 1804 - 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick’s, runs for the 1st time, along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.
  • 1931 - Alka Seltzer introduced.
  • 1937 - Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman’s Arrowbile.

Common sources:

There is a very active baseball history community and there are many facets to their views. We strive for clarity. Please be aware that we are trying to make the historical record as represented by our main sources coherent and as accurate as is possible. No item is posted here without corroboration. Some of these items spread from site to site without being verified. That is exactly why we ask for reputable sources, so that we can address them to the originators. BBRef is very cooperative in this regard, as are SABR and the Baseball Almanac. We have removed thenationalpastime from our sourcing list, as there have been multiple complaints about their content and they do not respond to attempts to communicate.

Also please remember that this is supposed to be fun.

Thank you for your cooperation. And thanks for reading!