Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field and baseball history
Baseball history unpacked, March 18
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Charlie Lau passes, and other stories.
Baseball history unpacked, March 15
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The wrong Hall-of-Famer and other stories.
Baseball history unpacked, March 13
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Not much happened, but what did happen was important. Happy birthday to current Cubs Mark Leiter Jr. and Keegan Thompson.
Baseball history unpacked, March 11
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Rich Hill! and other stories.
Baseball history unpacked, March 8
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Free of charge for the discerning reader. The contract that may have started it all, rules changes, the Federal League, Joltin’ Joe’s passing, and more. Natal anniversary of the late Ryan Freel.
Baseball history unpacked, March 6
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Free of charge for the discerning reader. Andre Dawson comes to Chicago, and other stories.
Baseball history unpacked, March 4
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Free of charge for the discerning reader. Early rules, Lou Gehrig Day, and other stories. Happy birthday, Chicago.
Cubs historical sleuthing: 1960s edition
Just a bit of history as we await today’s spring game.
Baseball history unpacked, March 1
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Adbert Alzolay! Bill Veeck in the news, and other stories.
Baseball history unpacked, February 28
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Aroldis Chapman! And other stories.
Baseball history unpacked, February 26
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Short and sweet but you wanted to read about Cody Bellinger anyway. Happy birthday to Mark DeRosa, who is probably talking about Bellinger right now.
Wrigley Field historical sleuthing: Cubs/White Sox edition
The Cubs played the Sox yesterday in Arizona. Here’s a photo from a long-ago game at Wrigley Field.
Baseball history unpacked, February 23
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Rondell White! Spring training cancellations and other stories.
Baseball history unpacked, February 21
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. MLB doing what they do, Cubs and Dodgers trade minor-league teams, and you can win 10,000 BCB points, not legally tender, by naming the players sent to Boston as compensation for signing Theo Epstein.
Baseball history unpacked, February 19
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The seeds of today were planted yesterday.
Wrigley Field historical sleuthing: 2022 edition
Here we have a mystery photo from just a couple of years ago.
Wrigley Field historical sleuthing: Tim Raines edition
When was this photo of the Montreal Expos star taken?
Baseball history unpacked, February 16
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Hall of Fame elections and the end of syndicate baseball. Happy birthday, Eduardo Sanchez! RIP, Gary Carter.
Baseball history unpacked, February 14
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Big things happened off-the-field on this date in baseball history. Some good, some bad.
Baseball history unpacked, February 12
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Rooftop bleacher creatures, Zonk for the Goose, and other stories. Happy birthday, Josh Phegley!
Wrigley Field historical sleuthing: Big crowd edition
You might not think there are ANY clues here. Dear reader, there most certainly are.
Cubs historical sleuthing: 1940s color film edition
The title says "Cubs game," but there are actually two different games in this video.
Baseball history unpacked, February 7
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Lots of passings. Happy birthday to Scott Feldman!
Baseball history unpacked, February 5
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Daniel Palencia! And other stories.
Wrigley Field historical sleuthing: Four 21st Century photos
Here are some recent images of the ballpark. Let’s go sleuthing!
Cubs historical sleuthing: 1970s edition
A couple of good clues made this one relatively easy.
Baseball history unpacked, February 2
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Dan Winkler! And other stories.
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Remembering the 1984 Chicago Cubs
All the BCB stories on the 40th anniversary of the Cubs team that broke the postseason drought can be found here.
40 years later, let’s celebrate the 1984 Chicago Cubs
The team that broke the franchise’s 39-year postseason drought deserves to be remembered, all year long.
There’s an auction for a Wrigley Field night game sign — from 1945
Here are some details.
Baseball history unpacked, January 31
A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Ernie Banks, and other stories.
A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 2024
We have reached the present day.
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9 to 1 baby#cubs #cardinals #london pic.twitter.com/2nnqt5EYHG
— gangrenous green (@Brommmietze) June 24, 2023 -
A friend of mine named Wyatt Kalb recorded this from the back of the booth when the @Cubs won it all in Game 7. Never before seen footage. Ha pic.twitter.com/f6gyFanz9d
— Joe Buck (@Buck) June 3, 2023