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• Chicago Cubs vs. Chicago White Sox preview, Friday 5/16, 1:20 CT

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The 2025 Crosstown Classic begins. Friday notes... YOUNG CUBS AND HOME RUNS: Pete Crow-Armstrong is tied with Seiya Suzuki for the Cubs’ most home runs, 11. PCA is just the 22nd Cub to hit at least 10 homers in his age-23 season. Kris Bryant smacked 26, in 2015. That was one more than the previous record of 25, set by Billy Williams in 1961 and tied b...2025
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• This day in Braves History: Greg Maddux duels with Andy Benes

Photo by Sporting News via Getty Images/Sporting News via Getty Images via Getty Images Andy Benes lost a no-hitter in the ninth inning but Greg Maddux pitched eight shutout innings and the Braves won anyways. Baseball! Braves Franchise History 1929: In Boston, Mel Ott hits for the cycle in New York’s 5-4, 10-inning loss to the Braves in a doubleheader nightcap. Ott’s home run in the 7th ...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, May 16

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Big Daddy’s natal event and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to follow as they unfold over ...2025
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• Marlins 3, Cubs 1: The Jameson Taillon question

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images What’s going on with the Cubs righthander? This recap of the Cubs’ 3-1 loss to the Marlins Wednesday evening at Wrigley Field is going to be fairly short and to the point. Partly, that’s because this game was the shortest of the year so far for the Cubs: Two hours, 11 minutes. As you know, I’m always a fan of shorter games. (More so, of course, if the C...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Braves set a new National League record with a homer in 25 straight games

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1942 - Jim Tobin has a huge day as he throws a five-hitter and slugs three consecutive home runs in a 6-5 win over the Cubs at Braves Field. Tobin is the first pitcher in modern history to collect three home runs in a game. 1998 - Ryan Klesko hits a two-run home run against the Cardinals to help the Braves set a new National Le...2025
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• Today in Cubs history: Sam Jones throws a no-hitter

Getty Images And there’s another important Cubs anniversary today. Before I get to Sam Jones’ no-hitter, there’s another key Cubs anniversary today — Ernie Banks’ 500th home run, hit 55 years ago today. Here it is: But May 12 is also the anniversary of another significant event in Cubs franchise history. Righthander Sam Jones threw a no-hitter against the Pirates at Wrigley Field May 12, ...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, May 12

Borowy chalks up another one. A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Hank Borowy* chalks up another one and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to follow as they unfold o...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, May 2

Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The Iron Horse sits one out and other stories for the discerning reader. Happy birthday to Keith Moreland* and myriad other former Cubs. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at basebal...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 23

Photo by David Banks/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Fergie, The Vulture, Jim Hickman, the Reinheitsgebot, and more, plus happy birthdays to Emilio Bonifacio* and others. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with...2025
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• Today in Cubs history: An Opening Day for the ages

Ernie Banks | Getty Images The Cubs and Cardinals fought for more than four hours... and in the end, neither team won. Monday, April 12, 1965 was the season opener for the Cubs and Cardinals at Wrigley Field. When it began, both teams’ records were, of course, 0-0. And when it ended, those records were... the same. Let me explain. Larry Jackson had an outstanding 1964 season — 24-11, 3.14 ...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 31

Photo By Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Ernie Banks’ statue* revealed, and other stories for the discerning reader. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore ...2025
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• This day in Braves History: Babe Ruth homers off Dizzy Dean in spring training

Even for spring training, this was a huge matchup Braves Franchise History 1915: The Boston Braves break ground on Commonwealth Avenue and begin construction of Braves Field. Owner James E. Gaffney wants a large enough park so that inside-the-park homers can be hit in three directions. The field will open on August 18th. 1935: At St. Petersburg, the St. Louis Cardinals set a spring training recor...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 31

Happy birthday, Ernie Banks! | Photo by Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Three Hall-of-Famers were born on this date. One of them was Mr. Cub, Cap Anson is released, and other stories for the discerning reader. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a l...2025
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• Bus Clarkson: A little-known star from an alternate Milwaukee Brewers history

Milwaukee Journal-USA TODAY NETWORK Meet a Negro League All-Star who spent his twilight years in Milwaukee Milwaukee has had a major league baseball team for all but five years since 1953, the year the Braves left Boston for the Midwest. After a short gap from 1965-69, the Seattle Pilots moved to town in 1970, became the Brewers, and the rest is history. However, 1970 was not the first sea...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, May 12
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• 2024: the best, the worst, the ... last of the real ones?

Greetings in the last few hours of what I think was the very real year of 2024.It's difficult to tell what's real and what's not these days. Just yesterday I saw a report that said the brilliant minds that run Facebook and Instagram plan to infiltrate both social media sites with AI-generated users. This kind of stuff freaks me out. I've seen very real cases of people I know being fooled by...2025
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• With Lessons of Game's Greats, Mike Trout Poised for Move from MVP to MLB Icon
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• Sammy Sosa in Exile: There's Silence Rather Than Apology from Former Cubs Star
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"Ernie Banks and Mark Grace also did it four times, Banks in 1956, 1969, 1962 and 1969, and Grace in 1992, 1995, 1997 and 1999."

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"Notable names among the others who did it: Grover Cleveland Alexander (only pitcher), Ernie Banks, Glenn Beckert, Jose Cardenal, Frank Chance, Andre Dawson, Gabby Hartnett, Billy Herman, Rogers Hornsby, Randy Hundley, Jerry Morales, Andy Pafko and Ryne Sandberg."

2023
"It will include the 1876, 1907 and 1908 championship trophies, Ernie Banks’ 1959 MVP Award, Pat Hughes’ 2023 Ford Frick Award and more."

2022
"Sure, Ernie Banks received a standing ovation before a crowd of 18,505 at Wrigley before his first inning at-bat — an infield hit — in what would be his final game Sept."

2021
"To paraphrase the late, great Chicago Cub Ernie Banks: “Let’s race two!"

2019
"Miggy surpasses Ernie Banks on all-time RBI leaderboard"

2018
"While the 500-homer club boasts sluggers such as Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle and Ernie Banks, the 400-homer club offers us a glimpse into one of baseball's superglues: a diversity of skills."

2017
"This year's fourth annual Cactus League Hall of Fame induction, the first to recognize players, honors four pioneering African-Americans who helped pave the way for others: Larry Doby, Willie Mays, Monte Irvin and Ernie Banks, all of whom were among the first handful of players to integrate Spring Training baseball in Arizona."

2016
"David Ortiz belted career homer Number 513 in the third inning against Astros right-hander Collin McHugh on Saturday at Fenway Park, passing Hall of Famers Ernie Banks and Eddie Mathews on Major League Baseball's all-time home run list to take sole possession of 22nd place."

2015
"Cub" Ernie Banks, a Hall of Famer who hit 512 home runs in 19 seasons in Chicago, has died at age 83."

2014
"New manager Joe Maddon and pitcher Jon Lester will join Anthony Rizzo, Kerry Wood and Hall of Famers Billy Williams, Ernie Banks and Fergie Jenkins at the 30th Cubs Convention, Jan."

• This day in Braves History: Greg Maddux duels with Andy Benes
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• Marlins 3, Cubs 1: The Jameson Taillon question
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• This Day in Braves History: Braves set a new National League record with a homer in 25 straight games
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• Hey, Tom Ricketts! You need to get Kyle Tucker signed now — and not just for baseball reasons

David Banks-Imagn Images There’s something else that this signing would do for the Cubs. With Kyle Tucker off to a great start with the Cubs, the chorus of voices urging Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts to open up the team wallet and sign Tucker to an extension before he hits free agency has gotten louder. While there’s no question about Tucker’s abilities on the field — he’s hitting the way he ...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 31
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• This day in Braves History: Babe Ruth homers off Dizzy Dean in spring training
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• Will the Cubs have a 40-homer man in 2025?

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images It’s been quite some time. Derrek Lee hit 46 home runs for the Cubs in 2005. That’s 20 years ago! Since then, no Cub has hit 40 or more home runs. The most by any Cub in the last 20 seasons is 39, by Kris Bryant in his MVP season in 2016. Kyle Schwarber hit 38 in 2019. Nine different Cubs have accounted for 19 different 40-homer season...2025
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• Perhaps I was too hasty

I had viewed enough 2024 Archives pack openings to know I needed to open some myself.Not that I liked the cards -- Archives and I have never seen eye-to-eye -- but I wanted to see the content for myself so I could comment on it on my own blog instead leaving irked comments all over everyone else's pack breaks.Also, there was one aspect of 2024 Archives that folks kept bringing up, but actual...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Eddie Mathews gets elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Photo by Louis Requena/MLB Photos The star third baseman receives his proper recognition for a fantastic career Braves Franchise History 1943: The Boston Braves release veteran outfielders Paul Waner and Johnny Cooney. 1978: Eddie Mathews is elected to the Hall of Fame by the BBWAA. The former Atlanta Braves third baseman is named on 301 of 379 ballots. 2021: Hall of Famer Don Sutton, a ...2025
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• 2024: the best, the worst, the ... last of the real ones?
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• This day in Braves History: Greg Maddux duels with Andy Benes
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• Marlins 3, Cubs 1: The Jameson Taillon question
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 23
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• MVP debates

Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images How’d that guy win? One of the beauties of today’s advanced baseball stats is it gives nerds like me a chance to go back in time and argue about how badly baseball writers mangled MVP and Cy Young votes in years past. I’ve always been in favor of making ballots public, if for no other reason than to shame homerism for undeserving candidates. Whether tha...2025
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• Today in Cubs history: An Opening Day for the ages
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• Hey, Tom Ricketts! You need to get Kyle Tucker signed now — and not just for baseball reasons
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• Cubs 10, Diamondbacks 6: Miguel Amaya drives in five

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images The Cubs began the North American portion of the 2025 schedule with an offensive outburst. Here’s yet another example of why Spring Training results mean nothing. The Cubs returned from Japan — where their bats were pretty silent — and played five games at Sloan Park, in which they were outscored 35-13, and lost four of the five. Two days later, the Cubs sma...2025
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• This day in Braves History: Babe Ruth homers off Dizzy Dean in spring training
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• Baseball is supposed to be fun, isn’t it?

Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times. — Bob Uecker And it was, whenever Bob Uecker was involved Bob Uecker’s death last week at the age of 90 was not just a reminder of what a great guy (and bad ballplayer) he was, but also a reminder of a very important fact —...2025
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• The 5 best Cubs games of 2024

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images These were all fun, well-played, or both. Now that you’ve read yesterday’s recap of the five worst Cubs games of 2024, here are five that should make you smile. Walk-offs, of course, always generate big cheers and excitement, no matter how they happen. I’ve got some of those here, but there are also other entertaining wins that deserve recogn...2024
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• Joy of a subset: A thrilling start

In order to keep this series in my head and not forget about it for a year, I'm running another version of "Joy of a Subset" three months later, which is a little sooner than I'd like as I usually space them out more. Tonight I'm going way back, to what you could argue was the first "out-of-the-box" topic for a subset in Topps history. Subsets were a new idea for Topps in the '50s...2025
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• The 2025 Cubs by the numbers

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images A complete numerical list of this year’s Cubs as they get ready for this year’s Spring Training. As I do here every spring, today I present to you a full numerical roster of all the players and coaches in Cubs spring camp. Also included are the Cubs’ retired numbers, so you can see the full numerical progression. There are 60 players in camp,...2025
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• Perhaps I was too hasty
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• Cubs historical sleuthing: Ernie Banks signs autographs at home edition

Bettman Archive Just when did the Cubs Hall of Famer sign these scorecards? Getty Images says: Chicago Cubs shortstop Ernie Banks signs autographs at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Banks would go on to win the Most Valuable Player award in the 1958 and ‘59 seasons. Okay, so what we know is that this was before or during the 1958 season. This scorecard, visible at the center of the photo, is def...2025
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• 2024: the best, the worst, the ... last of the real ones?
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• The 5 best Cubs games of 2024
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Troy Tulowitzki’s Hall of Fame case

Photo by Jacob de Golish/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, November 20, 2024 The National Baseball Hall of Fame released the ballot for the 2025 cycle on Monday, with a cast of characters both returning and debuting for the first time on the ballot. The new batch of candidates features a no-brainer like Ichiro Suzuki while featuring a slew of debatable players who...2024
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• This day in Braves History: The Niekro brothers make history together

Phil beats his brother Joe and they both end up going down in baseball history. Braves Franchise History 1912: The Giants clinch the National League flag with a sweep of the Braves, winning, 8-3 and 4-0. Christy Mathewson coasts to his 23rd win in the opener and Al Demaree, recently called up from Mobile where he was 25-10, shuts out the Braves on seven hits in the nitecap. Demaree strikes out ni...2024
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• This day in Braves History: Braves send Lou Pinella into retirement

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The legendary manager went down in defeat, with the Braves being the team to hand him his final loss. Braves franchise history 1927: Braves outfielder Eddie Brown surpasses Fred Luderus’s modern National League mark of 533 consecutive games played from 1916 through 1919. Steve Brodie played 574 consecutive games from 1893 throug...2024
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• Beloved Mr. Cub, Hall of Famer Banks dies at 83
"Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks, a Hall of Famer who hit 512 home runs in 19 seasons in Chicago, has died at age 83....2015
• Beloved 'Mr. Cub' Ernie Banks dies at age 83
"Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks has died at 83, just days before his 84th birthday....2015
• Hall of Famer, Cubs legend Ernie Banks dies
Hall of Famer, Cubs legend Ernie Banks dies...2015
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• Cubs Legend Ernie Banks Dies at Age 83
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• Ernie Banks, the Eternally Hopeful Mr. Cub, Dies at 83
Banks, whose mantra was “It’s a beautiful day, let’s play two,” hit 512 home runs and won consecutive M.V.P. awards in 19 seasons, but he never reached the postseason....2015
• Mark Grace and Shawon Dunston will be inducted into the Cubs Hall of Fame next month

Mark Grace and Shawon Dunston in 1997 | VINCENT LAFORET/AFP via Getty Images They’ll be honored at Wrigley Field September 8-10. Cubs greats Mark Grace and Shawon Dunston were announced as the 2023 Cubs Hall of Fame inductees at last January’s Cubs Convention. Today, the team announced that these two popular former Cubs will be honored at Wrigley Field the weekend of September 8-10, when t...2023
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• Kurkjian: Saying goodbye to Mr. Cub
We've lost the great Ernie Banks, who brought unbridled joy to baseball...2015

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• Baseball history unpacked, April 23
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 31
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• The 1970 Cubs were better than the 1969 Cubs. Why didn’t they win?

Jim Hickman scores for the Cubs against the Mets on May 23, 1970 | Photo by James Drake /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images It was another failure, in some ways more frustrating than the fabled ‘69 team. Yesterday, I posted this article about how some players who the Cubs let go for almost nothing in the late 1950s and early 1960s might have helped the 1969 team get over the hump and make...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, September 2

Happy birthday, Christian Bethancourt! | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Pappas throws a no-no and other stories. Happy birthday to Christian Bethancourt! On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseba...2024
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• Andre Dawson wants his Hall of Fame plaque changed to a Cubs cap — and the Hall is listening

Andre Dawson with his Hall of Fame plaque at the induction ceremony in Cooperstown, July 25, 2010 | Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Give the man what he wants. Tuesday, Paul Sullivan of the Chicago Tribune posted a column in which he wrote that Hall of Famer Andre Dawson wants the cap on his Hall of Fame plaque changed from an Expos cap to a Cubs cap. Dawson’s reasoning, per Sullivan: “...2023
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• A perfect tribute to Lin Brehmer on what would have been his 69th birthday

Sara Sanchez Lin’s Binge was a home run all on its own Saturday at Wrigley Field The weather was perfection. The vibes were good with the Cubs unexpectedly in a Wild Card and Division race in mid-August. It was a quintessentially Chicago weekend with the Air and Water Show punctuating the normal cadence of a Cubs game with the roar of fighter jets. The Cubs’ 6-4 win over the Royals was the...2023
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 31
Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources, a little bit cheesy but nicely displayed. Happy birthday to Leon Durham, Mike Bielecki, and others, plus a plethora of good stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s co...2023
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• Baseball history unpacked, November 25
Happy birthday, D-Lee! | Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB factoids, gathered from reputable sources, “cheap notoriety and the money there is in it” plus D-Lee and bad Nyborg. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plent...2022
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