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• Chicago Cubs Lineup (9/5/25): Busch Leads Off, Tucker Still Resting Calf, Assad Starting
I don’t think Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, or Lily Tomlin will be in attendance for this one, but Sammy Sosa will be there for the game dedicated to his time in a Cubs uniform. Derrek Lee will be honored tomorrow, and both will be officially inducted into the Cubs Hall of Fame on Sunday. The … The post Chicago Cubs Lineup (9/5/25): Busch Leads Off, Tucker Still Resting Calf, Assad Startin...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: July 29

On this day 48 years ago, Nancy Faust’s take on “Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)” took root, becoming a sports anthem and phenomenon. A year later, she received a gold record for her role in making the Steam song a hit in a second decade. Nancy Faust fuels the summer of South Side Hit Men 1910 Patsy Dougherty was a very good hitter (.284 career), but had one talent in particular: Breaking...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Phil Niekro picks up his 250th career win

Photo by Rich Pilling/MLB Photos via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1982: Phil Niekro picks up his 250th career win over the Padres. The 43-year-old knuckleballer will finish the season 17-4, leading the major leagues in winning percentage. MLB History 1989: Vince Coleman’s major league record-setting consecutive stolen base streak ends at 50 as Expos backstop Nelson Santovenia nai...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 28

Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content. Happy birthday to Carmelo Martinez*, the Chicago blackout, Kingman’s clouts, 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 ...2025
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• Cubs series preview: To the friendly confines!

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Will these two teams make a deal? The Royals head to the friendly confines of Wrigley Field this week, just a train ride away. They swept the Cubs there in 2021, but have lost the series to them each of the last two seasons. The Cubs have missed the playoffs each of the last four seasons, but come into this series with the second-best record ...2025
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• Home Run Derby game thread

Stephen Brashear-Imagn Images The 8-player field will all be making their Derby debuts In one of the most exciting parts of All-Star Week, the 39th annual All-Star Derby will take place tonight at Truist Park in Atlanta. The field is loaded with eight talented sluggers who are all participating in their first Derby, meaning a new home run king will be crowned. The event is missing famed H...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 9

Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content. Adam Greenberg’s fateful at-bat 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 handy Cubs timeline,...2025
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• Cubs 11, Cardinals 3: Michael Busch and Pete Crow-Armstrong lead the team to a franchise record

Photo by Daniel Bartel/Getty Images Cubs home runs flew out of Wrigley Field as we have never seen them before. The Cubs first hit seven home runs in a game at Wrigley Field in the second game of a doubleheader against the Mets June 11, 1967. Among the long-ball hitters that afternoon were Hall of Famers Ernie Banks and Ron Santo. That franchise record had been tied three times, before Fri...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 4

Photo by Ron Vesely/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content. Larry Biittner* spells relief, 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 h...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 2

Fear the Beard | Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content. A good day for Cub bats and a certain trade is made with the Orioles. 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 u...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 30

Happy birthday, Doug Dascenzo! | Photo by Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content. The Tunguska Fireball and also baseball. Happy birthday to Doug Dascenzo and other Cubs. 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 va...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 25

Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content. Happy birthday to A-Ram 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 ...2025
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• Cub Tracks how do you spell relief?

Matt Marton-Imagn Images The #1 source for #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes. That wasn’t it. The going is weird. Cub Tracks™ turned pro a long time ago. Cub Tracks™. Where the great ones run away. Any MLB team can beat you. The good teams WILL beat you. The Mariners, as we were informed by JD and Boog, are the very definition of a middle-of-the-road team. You do have to work to b...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 20

Photo by Brian Garfinkel/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content. Happy birthday to Cole Gillespie*, among others. Randy Hundley and Sammy Sosa hit grand slams, 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 na...2025
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• How to make the most of your gameday experience at Wrigley Field

Photo by @WillByington / www.willbyington.com The Cubs’ iconic ballpark has been extensively renovated for its second century. Wrigley Field is my home away from home all summer and has been for many years. It’s my happy place. I’ve written a guide to Arizona Spring Training every year for the last several (here’s this year’s), and thought it was time for a guide to the Cubs’ home in ...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: April 9

On this day one year ago, Yoán Moncada’s injury put all “big three” White Sox hitting stars on the IL. | Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Yoán Moncada goes down — and out 1963 The start of the season found the White Sox in Detroit, and it was a highlight game for third baseman Pete Ward. Ward smacked a seventh-inning, three-run home run off of Jim Bunning to push the Sox into t...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Braves take part in first-ever game at Nationals Park

The ending stunk but oh well! It’s in the past! Braves Franchise History 2008: The Atlanta Braves and the Nationals play the first game ever at Nationals Park with Atlanta falling 3-2 when Ryan Zimmerman hits a walk-off home run off Peter Moylan. MLB History 1948: Cardinals pitcher Murry Dickson becomes the first pitcher to throw a nine-inning no-hitter in spring training history. 1966: Dodgers...2025
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• This Day in MLB History: Freddie Freeman signs with the Dodgers

Photo by John McCoy/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The official end of the Freddie Freeman era in Atlanta MLB History 1900: Ban Johnson announces that an American League team will be placed in Chicago to ensure the stability of the league. In an agreement with National League officials, the AL club will be placed on the south side of the city and will be called the Chicago White Stocking...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ don’t make a habit of this

Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Cubs lose to Diamondbacks in a game that doesn’t count but feels bad nonetheless. 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, s...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ let it rain

Photo by Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. A rain-shortened contest. Nobody hurt. 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 w...2024
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• No, the World Baseball Classic shouldn’t be cancelled because of Edwin Diaz’s injury
Photo by Eric Espada/Getty Images Injuries can — and do — happen just about anywhere in baseball. By now, you have certainly heard about the patellar tendon injury suffered by Mets closer Edwin Diaz while celebrating Puerto Rico’s World Baseball Classic win over the Dominican Republic. You might not, however, have seen this reaction to it: Wouldn't have happened in a celebration of a mea...2023
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• Would Bonds, Clemens Entry Open Up Hall of Fame Floodgates?
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• Sammy Sosa in Exile: There's Silence Rather Than Apology from Former Cubs Star
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"Legendary Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa returned to Wrigley Field for the first time in more than 20 years Friday before Chicago's afternoon game with the Seattle Mariners."

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"The team record is five games, by Hack Wilson (1928), Ryne Sandberg (1989), Sammy Sosa (1998) and Christopher Morel (2023)."

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"Sammy Sosa homered, his 52nd, in the fourth to give the Cubs a 4-1 lead."

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"Each of Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Curt Schilling and Sammy Sosa has exhausted…"

2021
"Among his clients were Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey and Dock Ellis."

2020
"While everyone else watched Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa hit homers in 1998, the Yankees had one of MLB's greatest seasons -- but it has been largely lost to history."

2019
"While many of the eras more controversial stars – Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa and Manny Ramirez for starters – are likely to continue to look from the outside in, an impressive class is very a guarantee."

2018
"Cubs owner Tom Ricketts believes players from the steroid era "owe us a little bit of honesty," and until Sammy Sosa does that, he's not welcome."

2017
"That's all it will take for Giancarlo Stanton to become the sixth member of baseball's elite 60-home run club, along with Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa."

2016
"Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa are the notable exclusions, while Jeff Bagwell and Jeff Kent suffered from simply playing in the PED era."

2015
" Furthermore, Rodriguez now sits one game back of Sammy Sosa and Johnny Mize for the most three home-run games of all time, per ESPN Stats & Info."

2014
"Is John Smoltz Worthy of Being First-Ballot 2015 Hall of Famer?"

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• How to make the most of your gameday experience at Wrigley Field
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• This Day in Braves History: June 26th

Photo by Evan Bernstein/Getty Images Let’s go back in time! Braves Franchise History 1914: In Boston, the Giants hammer the Braves for 27 hits, winning 8-4 and 10-4, and put Boston back in the cellar. Boston had moved into seventh place with yesterday’s win over New York. Christy Mathewson wins the opener over Lefty Tyler, and Art Fromme wraps up the nitecap. 1935: Lloyd Waner has a still...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 25
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 18

Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content. Say Hey! To Willie Mays, who passed on this day last year, and Happy Birthday to Lou Brock. Four 400-club members in the same game, the anti-trust exemption is tested, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at bas...2025
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• Advanced statistics tell old baseball stories in a new way

Denny Medley-Imagn Images Moneyball may have revolutionized the sport, but advanced stats aren’t the boogeyman. “Exit velocity” OK, now, I see you cowering under your desk. Oh. And you...you threw your phone into the tub? Listen, exit velocity doesn’t have to be scary. No, really, I promise! Story time Let’s back up a minute. Think back to your childhood. Before advanced statistics. Even b...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Dallas Keuchel signs one year deal

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The veteran hurler chooses to stay in Atlanta for another season. Braves Franchise History 1986: San Diego Padres manager Steve Boros is ejected before the first pitch of the game with the Atlanta Braves when he tries to give umpire Charlie Williams a videotape of a disputed play in the previous night’s 4-2 loss to Atlanta. 2013: Yasiel Puig continues t...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: July 29
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 4
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Cleveland Guardians preview, Thursday 7/3, 7:05 CT

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs go for the series sweep. Thursday notes... GOING FOR THAT SWEEP: This is the 10th of their 29 series in which the Cubs have won the first two games. One series consisted of only two games. Of the other nine, the Cubs completed a sweep three times: March 31-April 2 at Sacramento, May 16-18 at home vs. the White Sox and May 26-28 at ...2025
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• How to make the most of your gameday experience at Wrigley Field
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 30
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 25
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 20
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• Brewers 8, Cubs 7: This team really doesn’t quit... ever

Photo by George Gaza/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Cubs fell way behind, staged a comeback, but fell short. This was not the sort of game the Cubs have played in recent weeks. Jameson Taillon was off his game Thursday, lasting only four innings and allowing three home runs. Génesis Cabrera had a rough relief appearance, serving up a three-run homer that put the Cubs behind 8-3 in the fif...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 18
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 9
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• Today in White Sox History: June 27

Who doesn’t love a José Valentín walk-off homer against the Cubs? This one came on this day, 22 years ago. | Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images José Valentín sinks the Cubs 1910 The White Sox lost the final game played at their original ballpark, South Side Park III (39th Street Grounds). Cleveland knocked them off, 7-2, in front of just 4,300 fans. Just four days later, the White Sox returned h...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Hank Aaron hits his 500th career double

Photo by Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1959 - Harvey Haddix retires the first 36 batters he faces against the Milwaukee Braves before losing the perfect game in the 13th when Felix Mantilla reaches on an error. Haddix walked Hank Aaron intentionally and then allowed an apparent three-run home run to Joe Adcock. Adcock passes Aaron on the basepaths and the home...2025
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• Remembering my father through baseball

Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images The changing soundtrack of summer Going into the game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, the Royals were 52-96 and on their way to finishing an abysmal 58-104, the first of the franchise’s consecutive 100-loss seasons since the team did it three times in a row from 2004 through 2006. The lean years were back, baby! Of course, the horrible finish ended with the Royals ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 25

Matt Marton-Imagn Images The Cubs win a wacky, wild one 11-10. I looked at my wife in the eighth inning. I said it’s 10-7 and the Dodgers bullpen is really good. Then I said, there have been 17 runs scored, I don’t know how anyone can assume there won’t be more scoring. That’s also about the time I started muting some people on social media. I’ve already written this year and many times ...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: April 9
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• A brief history of Cubs neutral site games

Cubs vs. Reds at the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa | Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Here are all the games the Cubs have played at parks not the usual homes for MLB teams. The Cubs are getting ready to face the Dodgers in Japan Tuesday evening (7:10 p.m. local time, 5:10 a.m. in Chicago), their first neutral-site games since they faced the Cardinals in London in J...2025
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• A few thoughts about traveling to Japan to see the Cubs play

The scoreboard at the Tokyo Dome after the Cubs win on March 29, 2000 | Al Yellon And a brief review of what happened the last time they played there. I’m departing this afternoon out of O’Hare Airport in Chicago to fly to Japan to see the Cubs face the Dodgers in the 2025 season opening Tokyo Series. (If you’re interested in tracking it, I’m on United flight 881, scheduled to leave about ...2025
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• Alex Rodriguez Hits 3 Home Runs vs. Twins: Stats, Highlights and Reaction
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• Cubs Legend Ernie Banks Dies at Age 83
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• Ricketts: Sosa unwelcome until he comes clean
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• Pedro Martinez Believes 60% of MLB Players Were Using PEDs During His Career
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• Jason Giambi, Ivan Rodriguez Show They Still Have Power in CPBL Home Run Derby
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• The Yankees, overshadowed? Why the 'best team ever' never got its due
While everyone else watched Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa hit homers in 1998, the Yankees had one of MLB's greatest seasons -- but it has been largely lost to history. And that still irks Joe Torre....2020
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• Bryce Harper's All-Time 2015 Stands Alongside Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds
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• Today in Cubs history: Kerry Wood strikes out 16 Reds

Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images This great Wood K game has been nearly forgotten. Everyone remembers Kerry Wood’s 20-K game against the Astros May 6, 1998. I wrote it up on its 20th anniversary in 2018. It’s one of the most famous games in franchise history and arguably the most dominating pitching performance in the history of baseball. Here’s one you might not remember. A...2023
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• The 9 worst games in fantasy baseball history
Everybody has a bad day, but these players posted the worst fantasy outings of the past 40 years -- and that includes some true legends like Mariano Rivera, Sammy Sosa, John Smoltz and Randy Johnson....2020
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• Is John Smoltz Worthy of Being First-Ballot 2015 Hall of Famer?
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• Cubs series preview: To the friendly confines!
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 9
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• Cubs 11, Cardinals 3: Michael Busch and Pete Crow-Armstrong lead the team to a franchise record
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 4
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• Today in White Sox History: June 27
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• Mariners 9, Cubs 4: Cal Raleigh destroys the Cubs pitching staff

Matt Marton-Imagn Images The Mariners catcher showed why he’s a possible MVP candidate. I don’t usually put photos of the Cubs’ opponent as the lead on game recaps or mention them in the headline but, well, Cal Raleigh is the story of the Mariners’ 9-4 win over the Cubs. He homered twice, walked to key another Seattle rally and singled to start their three-run ninth that put the game away....2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 69

Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images The Cubs ride two homers and strong pitching to a 3-2 win. Ten games into this 13 games in 13 days stretch, the Cubs are an even 5-5 after winning Thursday night. Friday will bring another new and interesting strategy. This will be the first time this year that the Cub starters have back-to-back starts each on four days rest. Modern pitchers don’t thro...2025
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Washington Nationals preview, Tuesday 6/3, 5:45 CT

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs open a series against an NL East ballclub. Tuesday notes... HIT MILESTONE APPROACHING: The Cubs go into tonight’s game having made 536 hits this season. Five more will make them the first Major League team to reach 200,000 in regular-season games since 1876, first year of the National League. The Cubs’ 199,995 hits are 605 more tha...2025
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• If Patrick Peterson merits Cardinals Ring of Honor induction, shouldn’t Steve Keim?

Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images The CROH case for Steve Keim might be similarly warranted as Pat P’s. Professional sports Hall of Fame and Ring of Honor protocols are often a topic of discussion, particularly in this era of performance enhancing drugs and some players’ and front office executives’ off-the-field transgressions. Perhaps the most discerning of all pro sports’ Hall of Fames i...2025
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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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• Today in White Sox History: March 30

On this day one year ago, Braden Shewmake made a splash by homering in his first White Sox appearance — in fact, on the very first pitch he saw. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Braden Shewmake makes a splash on the first pitch he sees 1970 In a swap of arms, the White Sox deal Jerry Nyman to San Diego for Tommie Sisk. Both players would throw their last in the majors in 1970, with Nyman maki...2025
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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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• Cub Tracks’ double your pleasure

Photo by mark peterson/Corbis via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. It rained baseballs Saturday as the Cubs split their squads but not their lumber. The Royals had some bombs stored, too. Many wow. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat...2024
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 47
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs return home with a 7-2 win Time for me to flip the script and change my equation. Normally, I start you with Tom’s rant and then circle back to three positives. I’m going to reverse that today. The simple reason is that the things that were good in this game outweigh my bigger picture look. So let’s get right at the positives. Matt Mervis had a ...2023
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• The Ricketts family panel returns to the Cubs Convention
Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Day two kicked off with a candid conversation with the Cubs ownership group. Cole Wright hosted a conversation with Tom and Laura Ricketts to kick off Day 2 of the 2023 Cubs Convention. Whoever was booing Tom during the Opening Ceremony must have slept in on Saturday morning, because there was only applause in the sparser crowd as the conversation k...2023
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 19
Happy birthday, Taylor Gushue! | Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB factoids, gathered from reputable sources. Today we feature financial skullduggery and other such fare, just the thing to open Holiday week. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s...2022
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• Cub Tracks’ clarity begins at home
Photo by Joseph A. Garrity/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images All the #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Wotta revoltin’ development ad infinitum... 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 t...2022
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• Baseball history unpacked, September 23
Charles Conlon A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB factoids, gathered from reputable sources. Fred Merkle memorialized. 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 h...2022
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