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• This Day in Braves History: Jim Bouton wins his first game since 1970

Braves Franchise History 1914 – After being ejected for swearing, Braves shortstop Johnny Evers claims he was talking to the ball and not umpire Mal Eason. He will still receive a three-day suspension. 1935 – The Braves snap a 14-game losing streak with a 6-4 win over the Reds. 1978 – Thirty-eight year old Jim […]...2025
• Baseball history unpacked, July 21

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• Baseball history unpacked, June 13

Photo by Mickey Pfleger/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content. The Red Baron* comes to Chicago, Ryno retires, 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 the...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 11

Malcolm Emmons-Imagn Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content. Adolfo Phillips* is in the news, 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 the course of time. Here’s a hand...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 28

Photo by Lane Stewart /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Sidd Finch*, sad passings, 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 a...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, February 17

Who am I? Guess right and you could win 5,000 BCB points. | Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Evers takes over for Chance, Lefebvre and Lasorda duke it out, and other stories. Guess the identity of our pictured birthday player and win 5,000 BCB points. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased ...2025
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1907

Chick Fraser with the Cubs in 1908 | Photo by Joseph Aaron Campbell/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images Another pennant-winning season for the Cubs. Coming off their 1906 pennant and loss to the White Sox in the World Series, the Cubs were out for vengeance. They got off to a 23-4 start and led the NL wire-to-wire, eventually winning 107 games and finishing 17 games ahead of the second-pla...2025
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1912

Joe Tinker | Getty Images The Cubs contended in this year, but fell short of a pennant. Two years past their last pennant and with some of their stars in decline, the Cubs got off to a poor start in 1912. Then they went 45-16 in July and August to get to within four games of first place, but a 12-17 record after Sept. 1 doomed them. Even so, they won 90+ games for the ninth consecutive sea...2025
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1913

Hippo Vaughn of the Cubs in 1914 | Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Another year of great change for the team. Frank Chance, the “Peerless Leader,” was let go in a dispute with owner Charles W. Murphy after 1912 — while he was hospitalized about to have brain surgery! Another of the famed Cubs from the previous decade’s successful teams, Johnny Evers, was named ...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, November 15

Happy birthday, Mickey Livingston! | Photo by Sporting News via Getty Images/Sporting News via Getty Images via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The first MLB trade, Cap Anson treads the boards, and other stories. Happy birthday, Mickey Livingston, catcher for the 1945 World Series team. Name the others for BCB point...2024
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• 2024 Cleveland National Show Report

The National Sports Collectors Convention returned to Cleveland's I-X Center for 2024 and I spent five days there, 80% shopping, 10% hobnobbing, and 10% finding bathrooms without lines. Let's run through this year's experience and what to know should NSCC return here in future years.Facility: The I-X Center! Danger, there be dragons!NSCC last used this facility in 2018 when it still featured a fer...2024
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"The lousy play got franchise icon Johnny Evers fired as manager mid-season."

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"2, 1907: Joe Tinker, three; Jimmy Sheckard, two; Johnny Evers, Frank Schulte, Jimmy Sheckard, Jimmy Slagle, Harry Steinfeld, one."

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"It took three singles, by Johnny Evers, Frank Schulte and Frank Chance, to produce a Cubs run in the first inning."

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"(2) 1905 - Joe Tinker and Johnny Evers engage in a fist fight on the field during an exhibition game in Washington, IN, because Evers took a taxi to the park, leaving his teammates in the hotel lobby."

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• This Day in Braves History: Braves acquire future MVP and World Series Champion Johnny Evers from the Cubs

Photo by Library of Congress/Interim Archives/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1914 - The Boston Braves acquire Johnny Evers from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for Bill Sweeney and cash. Evers will hit .279/.390/.338 and win MVP while helping the Braves to an upset win over the A’s in the World Series. 1965 - The Braves, who are planning to move to Atlanta for the 1966 season, propose...2025
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1902

Johnny Evers with the Cubs in 1913 | Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Baseball was very, very different than it is today. Something to remember about major league baseball in 1902 is this. First, note that I did not capitalize “Major League Baseball.” That’s because the entity we now know as MLB simply was not even a concept back then. The American League had b...2025
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1904

Frank Schulte at West Side Grounds in 1909 | Photo by Joseph Aaron Campbell/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images A few more team building blocks were added. 1904 was a watershed year in Cubs franchise history — the first time the team won 90 or more games. Their 93-60 record was excellent, but the Giants were just too good. The Cubs briefly inhabited first place in early June, but even play...2025
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1908

Andy Coakley | Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images This was a watershed year in franchise history, but not for transactions. In October 1908 no Cubs fan would have believed you if you had told him (and yes, they were almost all men back then) that the Cubs would not win another World Series for 108 years. They’d been a dominant franchise from their very beginning and thi...2025
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1914

Johnny Evers with the Braves in 1914 | Photo by Library of Congress/Interim Archives/Getty Images This was the beginning of great change for the Chicago N.L. franchise. In 1914, the upstart Federal League began, hoping to challenge the existing National and American Leagues for baseball supremacy. It lasted two years, but resulted in lasting change for the Cubs, as when it folded, Federal ...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Chipper Jones becomes fifth-ever Braves player to win NL MVP Award

Chipper joins Braves legends such as Dale Murphy, who also won an MVP award on this day. Braves Franchise History 1982: Dale Murphy wins the National League MVP Award, becoming the first Atlanta Braves player to be so honored since Hank Aaron in 1957, when the team played in Milwaukee. Murphy hit .281 with 36 home runs, 109 RBI, 113 runs, and 23 stolen bases. 1989: Nick Esasky, who became one of ...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, September 23

Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Fred Merkle’s place in the lore, 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 the course...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, August 7

Don Larsen | Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Don Larsen and others. One of the biggest doubleheader sweeps in Cubs history occurred on this date in 1984. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at base...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: February 16

Howie Judson was pretty upbeat in 1950, for a guy coming off of a 1-14 season. | Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images Author of a great turnaround season at the dawn of the 1950s is born 1924 Early on this day Frank Chance resigned as manager of the White Sox, having been stricken ill with pneumonia some time after accepting the helm during the 1924 Winter Meetings in Chicago the previous ...2025
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1921

L to R: Charlie Hollocher, Hack Miller, Ray Grimes, Bernie Friberg, Jigger Statz and Bob O’Farrell in 1922 | Photo by Keystone View Company/Archive Photos/Getty Images This was not a very good year for the North Siders. The 1921 Cubs won their first three games and six of their first eight, then promptly went into a dive that had them finishing seventh, 30 games behind the pennant-winning ...2025
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• Baseball and the Great War

Christy Mathewson We shall not sleep, though poppies grow When I was a child we lived in Concordia, Kansas, and every November 11 the city would have a Veterans Day parade. In those days it was still called Armistice Day. This memory has always stuck with me for several reasons. There would be a football game that day which my father would take me to. Those were the first football games I ...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Jim Bouton records first win since un-retiring

He went eight years between wins! Braves Franchise History 1914: After being ejected for swearing, Braves shortstop Johnny Evers claims he was talking to the ball and not umpire Mal Eason. He will still receive a three-day suspension. 1935: The Braves snap a 14-game losing streak with a 6-4 win over the Reds. 1978: Thirty-eight year old Jim Bouton picks up his first win since 1970 in a 4-1 victo...2024
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• Cubs 18, Pirates 8: The offense explodes!

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images Now THAT was fun! One day after Cubs hitters struggled to put two runs on the board in Miami, they crushed baseballs for season highs of 21 hits and 18 runs and demolished the Pirates 18-8. Because baseball, of course. Lots to get to in this recap so let’s get right to it. In the first, the Cubs didn’t score, but Ian Happ stole second base, the first o...2024
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• Today in Cubs history: The Cubs win the World Series

The 1908 Cubs pose with their team mascot | Photo by Stephen Jensen/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images It wouldn’t happen again for 108 years. EDITOR’S NOTE: This originally ran last year on this date. With baseball on hiatus until the ALCS begins tomorrow, I thought you’d like to read it again. (Lightly edited) Now that the current Cubs World Series drought is... seven years, I think we...2023
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 6
Happy birthday, Jake Arrieta! | Quinn Harris-USA TODAY Sports A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB factoids, gathered from reputable sources. The Hawk signs a blank check, Kirby Puckett departs this vale, 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...2023
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• Baseball history unpacked, September 1

Happy birthday, Jordan Wicks! | Photo by Justin Berl/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 24th birthday, Jordan Wicks! Tinkers, Evers, Chance, and others in today’s issue! On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-cen...2023
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• Baseball history unpacked, September 13

Alec Mills throws a no-no | Photo by Dylan Buell/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. Mills’ no-hitter and many other stories on a big day in MLB history. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s...2023
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• Cub Tracks camps out
Set Number: X157860 TK1 All the #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Camp coverage and other stories. Welcome to today’s edition 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 cold-brewed overnight for maximum flavor. I ag...2023
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• A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1984

Rick Sutcliffe | Getty Images This was a watershed year for Dallas Green in making deals. The Cubs had regressed, a bit, from their 1982 record of 73-89 to 71-91 in 1983. They hired Jim Frey as manager, a World Series-winning guy, and hopes were a bit higher in 1984. The first trade Green made that calendar year turned out to be a difference-maker. March 26: Acquired Gary Matthews, Bob Der...2023
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• This Day in Braves History : Chipper Jones wins NL MVP Award

Braves Franchise History 1982 - Dale Murphy wins the National League MVP Award, becoming the first Braves player to be so honored since Hank Aaron in 1957, when the team played in Milwaukee. Murphy hit .281 with 36 home runs, 109 RBI, 113 runs, and 23 stolen bases. 1989 - Nick Esasky, who became one of the most coveted free agents after hitting .277 with 30 home runs and 108 RBI for the Boston Re...2023
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. White Sox series preview

How long will this man last as Sox manager? | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The South Siders head to the North Side for a pair. You know, I was actually hoping the White Sox would beat the Brewers on Sunday. Not just because it would help the Cubs in the NL Central standings, but because the last thing the Cubs should want is to host a team on an 11-game losing streak. Sigh. Sox los...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Boston acquires Johnny Evers

Photo by: Circa Images/GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1914 - The Boston Braves acquire Johnny Evers from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for Bill Sweeney and cash. Evers will hit .279/.390/.338 and win MVP while helping the Braves to an upset win over the A’s in the World Series. 1965 - The Braves, who are planning to move to At...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, November 15

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• This Day in Braves History: February 11
Photo by Kevin Fleming/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1914 - The Boston Braves acquire Johnny Evers from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for Bill Sweeney and cash. Evers will hit .279/.390/.338 and win MVP while helping the Braves to an upset win over the A’s in the World Series. 1965 - The Braves, who are planning to move to Atlanta for the 1966 season, propose to pay ...2023
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