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• The most Hall of Famers, yearly update (2025)

Back in January, when we knew the five former players who were going to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame for 2025, I wrote a post on those five players, mentioning how many cards I had of each of them. I went back to that post to see if I had gained any cards of Dick Allen, Dave Parker, CC Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki or Bobby Wagner since. I did. None for Sabathia or Wa...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 25

Happy birthday, Mick Kelleher! | Photo by Diamond Images/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content. Happy birthday, Mick Kelleher*! Dawson enters the Hall 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...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 11, 2025

All aboard the Jacwagon? | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Can the Royals keep up the momentum into the All-Star Break? There were a couple of stories about Vinnie Pasquantino giving Jac Caglianone an il bacetto in celebration after his home run on Wednesday. Anne Rogers mentions it in her story: Caglianone’s two-run home run off Pirates starter Bailey Falter cleared not one, not two but ...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Keith Lockhart’s pinch-hit grand slam helps Braves to win

Remember Keith Lockhart? Well, now you do. Braves Franchise History 1972: The Atlanta Braves trade Orlando Cepeda to the A’s for Denny McLain. 1997: Keith Lockhart hits a pinch-hit grand slam to help the Braves overcome a five-run deficit in a 6-5 win over the Phillies. Fred McGriff broke the tie in the seventh with a triple to give Atlanta the win. 2000: John Rocker tosses a perfect eighth to h...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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• BCB After Dark: A catching conundrum

Photo by Kenta Harada/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who should be catching in Miguel Amaya’s absence. We’re open for business here at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad you decided to stop by. There’s no cover charge this evening. Tell us if you need anything. The hostess can...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: April 9th

File photo/News& Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1980 - Two days after opening the season, the Durham Bulls home uniforms are stolen. Braves minor league director Hank Aaron sends the team a set of used Braves uniforms. MLB History 1912 - The Boston Red Sox defeat Harvard University in an exhibition game that is the first game ever played at Fenway ...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 9

Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to David Robertson and others, plus sad passings and more 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 lo...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 24

Happy birthday to Starlin Castro! | Set Number: X84190 TK1 R1 F3 A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Starlin Castro! Leo Durocher puts his cards on the table, 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...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: February 28

As pictured here during the 1924 World Tour and at the time White Sox captain about to embark on a career (4.0 WAR) year, Bibb Falk (far left) would be traded to Cleveland in a giveaway deal five years later. | Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images Cleveland hoodwinks the South Siders for Bibb 1929 The White Sox traded star left fielder Bibb Falk to Cleveland for catcher...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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• This Day in Braves History: Braves sign Gaylord Perry

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images The eventual Hall of Famer and infamous spit-baller signs with Atlanta for his first and only season with the Braves. Braves Franchise History 1906: The owners of the Boston Beaneaters reject a $250,000 offer for the team. 1949: The New York Giants are fined $2,000, and their manager Leo Durocher $500, for signing Freddie Fitzsimmons as a coach while h...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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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1942

Lon Warneke | Photo by Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images Talk about a slow year. The 1942 Cubs began the year slowly, then things got even slower before they managed to get to .500 in late June at 35-35. That was the “high” point of the season. They went 33-51 the rest of the way and finished sixth, 38 games out of first place. That’s the furthest any Chicago NL team had finished out of...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 15

Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Jackie Robinson Day 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...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 20
Steve Bilko, who did not play today, but was a huge figure in Wrigley Field West history. | Photo by Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Wrigley West and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseb...2023
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 9
Rachel Balkovec manages her first game | Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB factoids, gathered from reputable sources. The future draws ever nearer. 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 narrat...2023
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"1958 - ”Jackpot Bowling” premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host."

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"The Cubs had held spring camp in Mesa, Arizona, from 1952-65, but moved to Long Beach in 1966 largely to placate new manager Leo Durocher, who wanted to stay close to his Southern California home during spring camp."

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"It is remarkable to me that since Leo Durocher was fired in July 1972 after 6½ years as Cubs manager — and that’s more than half a century ago — no one has managed the Chicago Cubs for more than five seasons."

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"That was the first year under Leo Durocher, and, as managers back then had much more authority over player acquisition than they do now, Leo tried all sorts of guys out that year."

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"Even grumpy manager Leo Durocher, his skipper from 1966 until he retired in '71, couldn't cloud his relentless sunshine."

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"Now, he steps into what has been, for more than four decades, a managerial graveyard: Not since Leo Durocher left in 1972 has a manager lasted more than five years in Wrigley Field."

• Baseball history unpacked, July 25
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 11, 2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 11
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 9
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• Today in White Sox History: February 28
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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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• Baseball history unpacked, October 25

Happy birthday, Mike Harkey! | 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, Mike Harkey, 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 ...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 11
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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 1972 Cubs: Another failed potential contender

Billy Williams bats for the Cubs at Shea Stadium in August 1972, showing off the unusual road uniforms worn only in that year | Photo by Walter Leporati/Getty Images The Cubs wound up a distant second. The beginning of the 1972 season was marred by a players’ strike, the first such labor stoppage in MLB history. It lasted only a week or so, and it was decided that the games missed would no...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, October 25
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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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• This Day in Braves History: Braves defeat the Dodgers in game 6 of NLCS to advance to the World Series

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1991 - Mark Lemke hits his second triple of the game in the ninth inning and then scores on a sacrifice fly by Jerry Willard to give the Braves a 3-2 win over the Twins in Game 4 of the World Series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdfoMKVCtM8 1996 - The Braves jump out to a 6-0 lead at Fulton County Stadium, but w...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, August 5

Photo by Jon Durr/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Tim Federowicz! Hits, no-hits, another record broken by Slammin’ Sammy, 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 ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 20, 2024

That was a fun moment between Butler and Gordon | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Thursdays are the new Friday! Ed note: Yes, I know, it’s not Friday. But when we get down to OT, this will make sense. Greg was gracious enough to switch when I realized the game today fit with the topic. For those of you who skip Friday Rumblings... shame on you. Or not. But this is the wild and bori...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 11, 2025
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• BCB After Dark: A catching conundrum
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 9
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• Outside The Confines: South Side blues

Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports The White Sox fired their manager as they challenge for the all-time record for losses. And other news from around MLB. A leaked script from Major League 4. Jerry Reinsdorf: Here are a list of candidates for the new White Sox manager. Chris Getz: I’ve never heard of half of these guys and the ones I do know are way past their prime. Ozzie Guillen, Jim Leyland, To...2024
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• Former Cub Ken Holtzman has died

Photo by Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images The lefthander threw two no-hitters with the Cubs. Ken Holtzman burst onto the Cubs scene at age 19, barely three months after he was selected out of the University of Illinois in the very first amateur draft in 1965. A full-time member of the Cubs rotation by the following year, he tantalized Cubs fans with near no-hitters a couple of times, inc...2024
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• A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era, 1968

Jim Hickman | Photo by Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images Some key 1969 players were acquired the year before. Having returned to contention in 1967, you’d think the Cubs would have tried to make some significant deals to improve the ballclub. Most of what they did was minor, but there was one trade that brought two key players to the North Side. February 9: Traded Lee Thomas to the Astros...2023
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• Former Cubs lefthander Dick Ellsworth has died
He had one truly outstanding season on the North Side. Dick Ellsworth was a lefthanded pitcher who exhibited great promise for the Cubs in the early 1960s. In 1963, he made 37 starts, went 22-10 (back when individual pitcher wins really meant something), posted a 2.11 ERA and led the major leagues in ERA+ at 167. Yes, better than Sandy Koufax of the pennant-winning Dodgers. Koufax won the NL MVP ...2022
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• Farewell to 'Mr. Cub' Ernie Banks, an Elegant Ambassador and All-Time Great
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• A few midseason thoughts about David Ross as Cubs manager
Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images How does the Cubs skipper stack up as we head to the season’s second half? A number of BCB readers have suggested, not just this year but in the past, that when I issue grades for the players at midseason, I should also rate the manager and coaching staff. Truth be told, I just don’t know enough about many members of the coaching staff to assign a grade. H...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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• Cubs historical sleuthing: Ernie Banks and Ron Santo edition

But when? And where? The men shown above are two of the greatest players in Cubs history, Hall of Famers Ron Santo and Ernie Banks. They’re wearing home Cubs pinstripes — but that isn’t Wrigley Field. So where is this? The background and batting cage of the photo matches two others I’ve sleuthed that came from 1966 Cubs spring training, held at Blair Field in Long Beach, California. The Cubs had ...2024
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• A few thoughts about David Ross, Cubs manager

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images He’s done a very good job under difficult circumstances. It’s become fashionable in some parts of the Cubs fanbase to call for the firing of manager David Ross. Something something lineups, something something bullpen, or something like that. I’m here to tell you that not only should Ross not be fired, but he should — presuming the Cubs continue contending...2023
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• October or bust: Maddon a big-picture skipper
In 1969, the Mets ultimately sailed past the Cubs for the NL pennant thanks to the managing style of Gil Hodges, whose philosophy of resting players directly opposed that of Chicago skipper Leo Durocher. The good news for fans of the 2015 Cubs is that manager Joe Maddon is a whole lot like Hodges. He manages for seven months -- including October -- whether his teams get to the postseason or not....2015
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Joe Maddon to Conquer Cubs' Managerial Graveyard?
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• There's a lot I don't like and thank goodness for that

I often think that I like too many card things and I need to rein it in. But here's a list of items often sold at card shows that will make me ignore your table:-- Unopened, sealed product-- Pokemon, Magic the Gathering or any fantasy or modern movie cards-- Basketball cards-- Non-vintage football or hockey cards-- Anything slabbed, especially rows and rows and rows of slabbed cards-- Big di...2024
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• Wrigley Field historical sleuthing: 1960s home movie edition

This looks like one thing... then turns into another. The screenshot at the top of this post is from this video that I found recently on YouTube: As you can see, it’s titled “Cubs Game 1960’s.” Okay, now we can get to sleuthing. The marquee shows a series against Milwaukee on Aug. 24-25-26. With the marquee being blue/green and the title, this has to be the Milwaukee Braves. The marquee was paint...2025
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• Cubs historical sleuthing: 1950s team warmup edition

The clues are there, right in front of you. You just have to look a bit harder for them. This is one of my favorite sleuthing jobs ever, because at first glance you wouldn’t think this could be narrowed down to anything more than maybe a five-year period. That’s because we are looking at some pre-game warmups at Wrigley Field. The scoreboard is not visible. You might think there aren’t enough clu...2024
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• The 1973 Cubs: A last gasp at contention
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 11
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• Baseball history unpacked, October 25
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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, March 22

Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday wishes to Glenallen Hill and Dexter Fowler, among 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 plenty of the lore and various narratives to follow as they unfold...2024
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• A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1973

Bill Madlock at third base for the Cubs in 1976 | Getty Images It was a year of great change for the team. You surely know the story of the last gasp of the great Cubs teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s that never won anything. This team roared out to a great start, then at one point went on an 8-31 run that took them out of contention. Later they struggled back and still had a chance...2023
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