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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1917

Grover Cleveland “Pete” Alexander with the Cubs in 1921 | Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images One of these deals helped solidify the Cubs for the following season. After dominating the National League for the first decade-plus of the 20th Century, the Cubs fell into disrepair around the time they left West Side Grounds for Wrigley Field. 1917 was their third straight losing sea...2025
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• Here are the attendees for the 2025 Cubs Convention

Craig Counsell greets Cubs players at the 2024 Cubs Convention | Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Most of the 40-man roster plus some alumni favorites will be in attendance. The Cubs Convention begins this Friday at the downtown Sheraton Grand Hotel. Passes are still available and you can get yours here. Here are all the current, past and future Cubs who wi...2025
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• Cubs historical sleuthing: Ernie Banks signs autographs on the road edition

Just when was the Cubs Hall of Famer signing these autographs? Hey, it’s Ernie Banks autograph-signing weekend here at the sleuthing desk, so after yesterday’s photo of Ernie signing at Wrigley Field, here’s another one featuring the Cubs Hall of Famer. That’s definitely Ernie Banks, and he’s definitely signing for fans. But when and where? (Where, because this is clearly not Wrigley Field and Ern...2025
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• Happy New Year from BCB!

Getty Images Welcome to 2025. Happy New Year to you from all of us at BCB. Here’s the full image from above: Getty Images/Photo illustration by Mike Bojanowski Here’s my wish for you to have a happy, healthy 2025, and also a wish for the Chicago Cubs to have a successful season and hopefully return to the postseason. If you are looking for a baseball alternative to the C...2025
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• In memoriam: Remembering the Cubs we lost in 2024

Ken Holtzman | Bettman Archive Rest in peace. At year’s end, it’s a good time to reflect and remember those who passed away throughout the year. In the baseball world in general: Hall of Famers Orlando Cepeda, Rickey Henderson, Whitey Herzog and Willie Mays and notables Bud Harrelson, Pete Rose, Luis Tiant and Fernando Valenzuela. There were also 12 members of the Cubs family who passed aw...2024
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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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• Baseball history unpacked, December 13

Photo by Isaiah Trickey/FilmMagic A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Birthday wishes to Fergie Jenkins and others, and more baseball 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 t...2024
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• The 1973 Cubs: A last gasp at contention

Ron Santo at third base for the Cubs at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati in 1973 | Diamond Images/Getty Images The core that had brought so many memories but no titles failed again. I’ve written about this star-crossed 1973 Cubs team on quite a number of occasions, so this summary of that ballclub is going to kind of be a conglomeration of the previous articles, with some new material adde...2024
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• The 1971 Cubs: What went wrong in this contending year

Fergie Jenkins pitches against the Giants, May 19, 1971 | Photo by John F. Jaqua /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images Once again, a talented Cubs team failed to make the postseason. So, I figured after writing about the 1969 Cubs failures and those of 1970 the last couple of days, I’d continue this brief series with a look at the team in 1971. General manager John Holland was curiously ina...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, September 18

Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Hall-of-Famer Ryne Sandberg, and other stories. Klaatu barada nikto. 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 fo...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, September 13

Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Alec Mills’ finest hour, and more! 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 the co...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, September 4

Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown | Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Mordecai’s last outing 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 ...2024
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• There’s a proposal to have a six-inning minimum for MLB starting pitchers...

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images ... and oh, man, is this a bad idea. This report about a six-inning minimum proposal by MLB, from Jesse Rogers at ESPN, was published last week, but I haven’t had a chance to address it until now. There’s been some discussion of this topic in this FanPost by venkn, but I wanted to weigh in and bring it to the front page, so here goes. Here’s how it was ...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, August 19

Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Hack Wilson, Norman Rockwell, and the short story of Eddie Gaedel. But wait, there’s more! Holtzman throws a gem, Fergie goes deep, and Jim Hendry joins the ranks of the unemployed. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-cent...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, May 15

Happy birthday, Rafael Ortega! | Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Rafael Ortega! No-hitters 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 an...2024
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"If you are looking for a baseball alternative to the College Football Playoff games today, Marquee Sports Network has you covered with documentaries on Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams and Fergie Jenkins, plus “Saving Wrigley Field” and a classic Cubs game from April 4, 2016."

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"Pre-game, the Cubs had their living Hall of Famers come to the mound for a first-pitch ceremony, and it was great to see Fergie Jenkins, Lee Smith, Andre Dawson and Billy Williams together — and Billy looked great, I thought."

2023
"I’m hoping the Hall places him on that Committee’s ballot and a couple of his former teammates (Billy Williams and Fergie Jenkins) are on that Committee."

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"Fergie Jenkins established himself as a member of the starting rotation."

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"Hall of Famers Rod Carew, Fergie Jenkins, Mike Schmidt and Ozzie Smith are among the 16 voters on the Hall of Fame's Golden Days Era Committee."

2017
"Well, it turns out that the players were headed out there to head up to the center field scoreboard and raise the championship banner themselves: The Cubs also had Hall of Famers Ryne Sandberg (1907 WS banner), Fergie Jenkins (1908 WS banner), and Billy Williams (2016 NL Pennant) raise other banners: The banner raising was followed by Anthony Rizzo carrying the World Series trophy as he led his teammates back out to the field: The ceremonies were actually delayed two hours by rain, and now an NL"

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"Greg Maddux and Fergie Jenkins are two of the better pitchers in franchise history"

2015
"Hall of Famers Billy Williams, Fergie Jenkins and Lou Brock, Illinois Gov."

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."

• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1917
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• In memoriam: Remembering the Cubs we lost in 2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 13
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• Cubs historical sleuthing: Fergie Jenkins, 1970s edition

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images This one took a while. You might not think there are enough clues here, but dear reader, you know how long I’ve been at this, and I am here to tell you there are enough clues in this photo of Fergie Jenkins to at least narrow it down to xxx. First, here’s the entire photo, which I cropped above. Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images Ge...2024
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• A Cubs baseball fantasy camp is returning this winter

Kino Sports Complex in Tucson, Arizona The concept begun by former Cubs catcher Randy Hundley returns in a new incarnation. For more than three decades, former Cubs catcher Randy Hundley ran fantasy camps for folks who wanted to live out their baseball dreams. Hundley, many of his former teammates and other past Cubs served as coaches, and games were held at HoHoKam Park and later, at Sloa...2024
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• The 1971 Cubs: What went wrong in this contending year
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• Here are some players the Cubs let go who might have helped them win in 1969

Ernie Banks (left) and Tony Taylor working out at Spring Training in 1958 | Getty Images Even more evidence of how poorly run the team was back then. The 1969 Cubs are a fabled team, perhaps the most loved group of players in MLB history that never won anything. They had four core players who became Hall of Famers — Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Ron Santo and Fergie Jenkins — and several ot...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, September 13
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• Dodgers 10, Cubs 8: Just... not... quite... enough

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images The Cubs took a lead, blew it, came back to tie, but the bullpen then gave it away late. Dodger Stadium, oddly enough, is the MLB ballpark with the most total homers hit in the 2023 season. Entering this game there had been 199 home runs hit in the home of the Dodgers, two more than had been hit in Yankee Stadium. (Wrigley Field ranks 28th, with just 1...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, August 19
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• The 5 best Cubs games of 2024
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• Cubs historical sleuthing: Dallas Green edition

The Cubs GM, some kids... and the scoreboard. But when? Cubs general manager Dallas Green is shown here on the field at Wrigley, with a group of kids, on what shows on the scoreboard message board as “CUBS/INTERLAKE HONORS PROGRAM.” Exactly what is that? Here’s the full image, which explains: So, it was run by a suburban Chicago company to honor local grade school and high school stud...2024
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• The 1973 Cubs: A last gasp at contention
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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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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 145

Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cubs win their second straight over the Dodgers, 6-3. I’ve always said that in modern baseball it is possible to pile up a lot of wins late in the season against bad teams just playing out the schedule. Wait, this was the team that formerly boasted the NL’s best record. While the Cubs did recently pile up some late season wins ...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, August 19
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 24

Happy birthday, Miguel Socolovich! | Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Miguel Socolovich! The Pine-Tar Incident, Vince Coleman blows up his career, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 19

Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Phil Cavarretta! More birthdays and more 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 t...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 15

Jim Thorpe | Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Mordecai Brown, Alvin Dark, Fergie Jenkins, Nolan Ryan’s arm, Albert Belle’s bat, Thorpe’s Decathlon win, and other tales of whoa. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, ...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ pitcher clock

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes plus extras, four days a week. Is Kyle Hendricks done? Writers consider his plight, and more. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then co...2024
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• In memoriam: Remembering the Cubs we lost in 2024
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• The 5 best Cubs games of 2024
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• Cubs historical sleuthing: Dallas Green edition
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• Dodgers 10, Cubs 8: Just... not... quite... enough
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• Royals 6, Cubs 0: One inning that sums up the entire 2024 season

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The story of this entire Cubs season can be told in brief. For those of you who want to fast-forward through the rest of this miserable 2024 Cubs season, you can tell all your friends just to watch the fifth inning of the Cubs’ 6-0 loss to the Royals Friday night, because that inning summed up the entire year quite well. The Cubs couldn’t touch Brady Singer f...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 13

Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports Too many walks allowed, too few hits doom Cubs in Seattle. Two weeks do not make a baseball season by any means. However, I chuckle every time I hear someone say that the Cubs didn’t really do anything in the offseason. Certainly, running it back with a team that didn’t reach the playoffs and hoping that internal growth seems like a silly plan. That said, ...2024
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• Today in 1984 Cubs history: The Gary Matthews/Bob Dernier trade changed everything

Getty Images The Cubs struggled through a painful spring training, and then Dallas Green made a deal that defined the 1984 team. The Cubs lost 91 games in 1983, two more than they had in 1982, the first year of “Building A New Tradition” under Tribune Co. and general manager Dallas Green. In fact, they had hovered around .500 as late as June 19, when they were 30-32, but went 41-59 the res...2024
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• The 2024 Cubs by the numbers

Photo by Michael Reaves/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, 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 59 players in camp, the 40-man roste...2024
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 126

Photo by Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cubs bounce back after a Tigers grand slam for a 6-4 win. I do a lot of different things in this space. It all depends on the vibe I get from the game and often things on social media. For better or for worse, I assume that social media gives some cross-section of where the collective consciousness of Cubs nation and by extent al...2023
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• Baseball history unpacked, August 23

Happy birthday, Mark Bellhorn! | Photo by Jonathan Daniel/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 Dunkin’ Donuts franchisee Mark Bellhorn! Walter Johnson faces The Babe and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present ...2023
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• Cubs 5, Rockies 0: Shōta Imanaga shines in the rain

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs got the game in and got a great pitching performance. Let me get this out of the way first. Last Friday I wrote this article saying the Cubs should postpone Opening Day — right then. The forecasts were dire. But they got the game in, though it rained pretty hard from about the seventh inning on. So, mea culpa, they played, got Opening Day in — ...2024
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• Rick Reuschel should be in the Hall of Fame
Getty Images The former Cubs righthander is seriously underrated. Let me start another Hall of Fame controversy. I think it’s a serious oversight by the Hall of Fame to not have inducted former Cubs righthander Rick Reuschel, more than 30 years after his retirement. Reuschel didn’t get any real consideration in his one year on the BBWAA ballot in 1997. He got just two votes from writers an...2023
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• Ryne Sandberg will get the next statue in Gallagher Way
Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images There was a bit of news in the Ricketts’ family panel at Cubs Con. Statue Row at Gallagher Way honors the most beloved Cubs Hall of Famers in the long and storied franchise history of the Cubs. As you may recall from my reconnaissance from the days before the Fergie Jenkins statue was unveiled, there are two extra bases for statues on either end of Statue ...2023
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• Reflections on the Cubs’ 2022 season
Photo by @WillByington / www.willbyington.com This year, we hope, was a transition from the bad into the good. One thing I think many have forgotten about the 2022 baseball season is how close we came to losing it — all of it. When the lockout suddenly ended March 10, we were probably only a day or so away from Rob Manfred announcing that more games were going to be “removed from the ...2022
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• A visit to the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa
Al Yellon All of this began with a movie that isn’t really about baseball at all. DYERSVILLE, Iowa — In 1989, when the movie “Field of Dreams” was released, I don’t think anyone would have thought the location, which is pretty far off the proverbial beaten path, would become a place not only for baseball fans to flock to, but the site for Major League Baseball to stage two regular-season g...2022
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• Today in Cubs All-Star history: Fergie Jenkins ties a strikeout record
Fergie Jenkins at Wrigley Field in September 1967 | Photo by Walter Iooss Jr./Sports Illustrated via Getty Images It has not been matched in the ASG since — and likely never will be. Fergie Jenkins is a beloved Cubs elder statesman, one of the greatest pitchers in franchise history. He posted six straight 20-win seasons for the team, back when that was a true accomplishment, and was electe...2023
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 21
Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Lou Gehrig retires, the Red Baron’s birthday, 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 narrative...2023
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• Cubs unveil Fergie Jenkins statue at Wrigley

The Chicago Cubs unveiled a statue of six time 20-game winner and Hall of Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkins during a ceremony outside of Wrigley Field on Friday morning....2022
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• Cubs historical sleuthing: Fergie Jenkins, 1980s edition

This one’s easier than it looks. This is, quite obviously. Cubs Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins pitching against the Cardinals. You can see in Fergie’s face that he’s older — so this has to be during his return to the Cubs in 1982-83. The other thing that dates this to the later Jenkins era in Chicago in the early 1980s is the color of the door on the outfield wall. During the 1960s and 1970s, those ...2024
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• Cubs historical sleuthing: Fergie Jenkins, 1970s edition
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• Cubs historical sleuthing: Dallas Green edition
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• The 1973 Cubs: A last gasp at contention
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• The 1971 Cubs: What went wrong in this contending year
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• The 1970 Cubs were better than the 1969 Cubs. Why didn’t they win?
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 31

Happy birthday, Leon Durham! | Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Leon Durham, Jon Lester lays it down, 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...2024
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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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• Cub Tracks’ land of the Giants
Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. The Cubs effort looks positively Lilliputian and the tide is going out. Marcus Stroman tries to play stopper. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, st...2023
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