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• This Day in Braves History: Braves acquire Fred McGriff from Padres

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images The Crime Dog comes to Atlanta Braves Franchise History 1961: Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock and Joe Torre of the Braves startle the Reds with a triple steal in the 6th inning. For Aaron, it is his first steal of home. 1993: The Atlanta Braves obtain 1B Fred McGriff from the Padres in exchange for minor leaguers Melvin Nieves and Donnie Elliott. ...2025
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• Classic Orioles Card: Billy O’Dell, 1967

Four years after they arrived in Baltimore, the Orioles hosted the All-Star Game before a packed house at Memorial Stadium on July 8, 1958. High on the list of the greatest sports events ever played in Baltimore, it featured a slew of future Hall of Fame inductees such as Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, […]...2025
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• 2025 Haters’ Guide to the NL Central #5: Milwaukee Brewers

Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images At least you’re not a Brewers fan! Oh, wait... my bad. *Please Note This Is Satire* I usually write serious articles. This is not one of them. So, about a month and a half ago, I published a series of satirical articles intended to poke fun at our NL Central rivals. Some of you thought they were funny; most of you probably didn’t. If you didn’t catch them when the...2025
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• 2025 Cubs midseason grades

Photo by Peter Joneleit/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Here are my assessments of Cubs player performances so far this year. As befits a first-place team, most of them are pretty good. The Cubs really couldn’t have done much better so far this year. They have three All-Stars, two of them starting players. They’re in first place in the NL Central, though by just one game, and have had une...2025
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• Outside The Confines: How about those Blue Jays?

Matt Marton-Imagn Images Who saw that surge coming? Happy Wednesday, BCBers! We’re getting mighty close to the All-Star break, and that means two things: if we’re not talking about the All-Stars, we’re talking about the amateur draft or the trade deadline. There’s plenty to get into in today’s news, as we find out who is taking the helm in Washington, the unexpected surge of the Toronto Bl...2025
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• Willie Mays' personal collection going to auction
The personal collection of Willie Mays will head to auction via Hunt Auctions on Sept. 27-28 in San Francisco....2025

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• Baseball history unpacked, July 7

Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content. Cubs sweep a DH and have an incredible comeback; Tom Browning takes the long view, and other stories. Happy birthday to Billy Herman*! 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...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Ronald Acuña Jr swipes 40th bag as Braves win nine straight

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The good old days of two years ago. Braves Franchise History 1914: The Braves make their second trade in four days, acquiring OF Josh Devore from the Phils for IF Jack Martin. 1932: With a Boston law restricting games within 1,000 feet of a church on Sundays having just been repealed, the first Sunday game is played at Fenway Park wi...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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• 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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• Manny Machado hits a milestone

Manny Machado | Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images Notes on Padres week ten The San Diego Padres played a home series against the Pittsburgh Pirates, taking two of three. They then flew to San Francisco to play the Giants and split the series two games each. Although they finished the week four wins to three loses, the offense still struggled and the pitching had some great moments...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, May 28

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, Happy birthday, Craig Kimbrel! 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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• This Day in Braves History: Babe Ruth hits the final three home runs of his career

SetNumber: D82960 Yes, his final three homers all came in the same game. That’s the Babe for you. Braves Franchise History 1935: Babe Ruth hits the final three home runs of his career for the Boston Braves in an 11-7 loss to the Pirates. 2007: Jamie Moyer beats the Braves for the first time in 20 years and two days which breaks Mike Morgan’s record for the longest stretch between victori...2025
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• The Cubs have had some success signing older players, but most of the time it didn’t work

Davey Lopes with the Cubs in 1984 | Getty Images Justin Turner, formerly a very good player, had been awful for the Cubs until his walkoff hit Tuesday. How have similar Cubs acquisitions worked out? Justin Turner had struggled all year until he hit his stunning walkoff double Tuesday evening at Wrigley Field. That prompted me to take a look back at Cubs history to see what happened when th...2025
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• Remembering the career of Bobby Shantz

He was a lefty with the heart of a lion. My father used to regale me with stories about old baseball players and teams. I suppose that’s the reason I’m more interested in the old times than the modern game. Dad was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, so I heard a lot of stories about “Dem Bums” growing up, but he also had an appreciation for any player with talent. He admired stars like Stan Musial and Willie...2025
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• 2024: the best, the worst, the ... last of the real ones?

Greetings in the last few hours of what I think was the very real year of 2024.It's difficult to tell what's real and what's not these days. Just yesterday I saw a report that said the brilliant minds that run Facebook and Instagram plan to infiltrate both social media sites with AI-generated users. This kind of stuff freaks me out. I've seen very real cases of people I know being fooled by...2025
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• A look back on Harry Simpson

Have Suitcase, will travel I don’t think there’s much debate that baseball players today are better than they were 50 or 100 years ago. For one thing, MLB is now integrated. It’s truly an international sport. The second thing is players at nearly all levels now play and work out year-round. With AAU and traveling teams, pre-teen ballplayers probably play more games in a summer than I played in the...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Peter Moylan makes 75th appearance without allowing a homer

Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1960: At the age of 39, Warren Spahn pitches a no-hitter beating the Phillies, 4-0. The crafty lefty sets an all-time Braves record with 15 strikeouts. 1969: Juan Marichal blanks the Braves, 2-0, as the Giants regain first place. 1991 Atlanta outfielder Otis Nixon is suspended for 60 days for violating baseball’s drug policy. ...2023
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• Outside The Confines: Is the MLBPA going to stand up for MiLB?
Photo by Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Seems like some interesting changes might be coming. In some late-breaking Sunday news that we will most certainly be hearing a lot more about in the coming week, it appears that a vote is on the way to see how Minor League players feel about having the MLPBA act as their collective bargaining representative. BREAKING: Minor Leaguer...2022
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• Alex Rodriguez Apologizes to Yankees Organization over Past Actions
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"” Cardinals Fan 4: “We keep banking on our outfield farm prospects to be the next Willie Mays, or maybe Jim Edmonds."

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"MLB History 1958 - Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants signs a contract worth $65,000."

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"Happy B-day, Say Hey: 24 amazing Willie Mays stats"

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"Mets retire Willie Mays' No. 24 during Old Timers' Day"

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"“A Day in the Bleachers” recalled what he saw, heard and felt at the Polo Grounds during a 1954 World Series game in which Willie Mays made “the Catch."

2020
"Angels' Albert Pujols hits 660th career home run, ties Willie Mays for fifth-most all-time"

2019
"Henry "Hank" Aaron was born in Alabama two years before Willie Mays, 85 years ago today."

2018
"Should Derek Holland win a job on the Giants' Opening Day rotation, he'll learn plenty about Willie Mays and Willie McCovey, Stu Miller and the 1961 All-Star Game, the Alou brothers, Masanori Murakami, Bobby and Barry Bonds, Jack and Will Clark, Brian Johnson, the 'Stick (Candlestick Park) and the Shooter (Rod Beck)."

2017
"The World Series Most Valuable Player Award will now be tied to one of the all-time greats of the game: Willie Mays."

2016
"Celebrate Willie Mays' 85th birthday by remembering his career"

2015
"Alex Rodriguez hit career homers 657 and 658 as he closes in on Willie Mays, then added the decisive hit, an RBI single in the eighth, for his fourth RBI of the night to lead the Yanks to a 5-4 win over the Rays, who got back-to-back homers by Allan Dykstra and Logan Forsythe on Friday night."

2014
"Marichal said that his manager, Alvin Dark, visited the mound in the ninth inning of what eventually was a game the Giants won 1-0 on a Willie Mays homer."

• This Day in Braves History: Braves acquire Fred McGriff from Padres
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• 2025 Haters’ Guide to the NL Central #5: Milwaukee Brewers
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• Outside The Confines: How about those Blue Jays?
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 7
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 18
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• Has overreaction just become reaction for this 2025 Atlanta Braves team?

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images None of this is ideal. At all. Hopefully, this is the bottom. That phrase has been uttered multiple times throughout the 2025 Atlanta Braves season - and at least twice, that seemed to be true. Unfortunately, those low-points were not the nadir. If - and that is a big if - yesterday’s worst ninth inning collapse since the New York Mets beat the Braves w...2025
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• Elusive '80s cards ... really? Part 2

This is the continuation of a series I started in February, about how that even for the 1980s, there are elusive cards for team collector types. I went through what I still need from sets issued between 1980-83 in the first post. Today I'm going through what I need for Dodgers from 1984-85. Yeah, just two years this time. The amount I need increases as the '80s progress. Who would've figured ...2025
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• Chet Lemon Q&A

Steve Snowden/Getty Images Our historian, Mark Liptak, shares his 2004 conversation with the star center fielder With news of Chet Lemon’s passing on Thursday, our Mark Liptak was in touch quickly from the road, taking time out of his broadcasting work to share his interview with Chet from 2004. It follows here, in edited form. Chet Lemon is another one of those very good White Sox playe...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Braves acquire Fred McGriff from Padres
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• This Day in Braves History: Ronald Acuña Jr swipes 40th bag as Braves win nine straight
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• This Day in Braves History: Rowland Office’s 29-game hitting streak ends

Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1953 - The Braves sign 17-year old Joey Jay making him the first Little League player to make it to the major leagues. 1975 - Joe Morgan’s three-run home run off of Phil Niekro is the difference in a 3-0 loss by the Braves to the Reds. 1976 - Rowland Office’s 29-game hitting streak ends, but the Braves still beat the Expos 2...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 20
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• This Day in Braves History: Hank Aaron passes Willie Mays on all-time home run list with his 649th homer

Braves Franchise History 1918 - Dick Rudolph tosses a one-hitter beating Rube Bressler and the Reds 3-0. Hal Chase recorded the lone hit. 1931 - Rabbit Maranville scores five runs as the Braves beat the Cardinals 13-4. 1961 - The Braves tied the National League record with 14 homers in three games as they beat the Cubs at Wrigley Field 9-5. 1972 - Hank Aaron hits his 649th home run which moves ...2025
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• Manny Machado hits a milestone
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• Has overreaction just become reaction for this 2025 Atlanta Braves team?
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• Barry Bonds Honors Willie Mays With Emotional Promise to Carry the Torch for Giants
Barry Bonds intends to honor his godfather Willie Mays while helping Rafael Devers...2025
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• Manny Machado hits a milestone
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• Has overreaction just become reaction for this 2025 Atlanta Braves team?
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• Elusive '80s cards ... really? Part 2
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• Baseball history unpacked, May 28
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• Chet Lemon Q&A
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• The Game I’ll Never Forget: Chet Lemon

Sole Star: Potent with the glove and bat, Lemon was a two-time All-Star on the South Side. | Bettmann Archive An, er, active day on defense sent an all-time great out to center field [On the occasion of Chet Lemon’s passing today, we are reprinting his entertaining story of transforming into a record-breaking center fielder. This piece originally ran at South Side Sox in 2018.] *** Chet Le...2025
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• Legends for less

It's almost nothing to own cards of retired players, so-called "legends cards," these days. Thanks to the MLB-Topps agreement, legends are included in virtually every current set. They're ubiquitous in inserts and in sets like Archives and Allen & Ginter. You can find cards of them for a quarter, which just doesn't seem right. Maybe that's because I knew a different time. As a youngste...2025
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• A-Rod carries Yanks to victory in series opener vs. Rays
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• Stephen Curry Gets Warm Welcome at San Francisco Giants Game, Crowd Chants 'MVP'
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• A-Rod's 661st HR, clutch Tex power Yanks to win
Alex Rodriguez hit his 661st career homer to pass Willie Mays for sole possession of fourth place on the all-time list, and Mark Teixeira drove in a pair of runs as the Yankees defeated the Orioles, 4-3, on Thursday night at Yankee Stadium....2015
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• A-Rod crushes home run No. 659, moves within 1 of Willie Mays for 4th all-time
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• World Series MVP Award renamed for Mays
The World Series Most Valuable Player Award will now be tied to one of the all-time greats of the game: Willie Mays. Major League Baseball announced Friday that the award has been renamed the "Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player" in honor of the Hall of Famer....2017
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• World Series MVP Award renamed for Mays
The World Series Most Valuable Player Award will now be tied to one of the all-time greats of the game: Willie Mays. Major League Baseball announced Friday that the award has been renamed the "Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player" in honor of the Hall of Famer....2017
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• A-Rod Continues to Turn Back the Clock for His Best Season in Years
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• Alex Rodriguez Collects His 3,000th Hit With a Home Run
Rodriguez became only the third player to reach that milestone and 600 home runs. The two others are Hank Aaron and Willie Mays....2015
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• The Cubs lineups are not as effective as they could be

Mike Tauchman rounds the bases after a home run against the Mets | Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images A cautionary tale of handedness obsessions If you are reading Bleed Cubbie Blue you likely obsess about the Chicago Cubs. You are probably watching all of the games, reading Al’s game recaps, joining in on the game threads here and there, and, if you’re anything like me, waiting obsessiv...2023
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• Gary Peters, 1937-2023
Our tribute to the Rookie of the Year and dominant 1960s pitching force comes in the form of an extended Q&A With the passing of Gary Peters, once again we are able to produce a wonderful tribute to him in the form of an extended Q&A. Peters, by WAR, was the 17th-best pitcher in the history of a very pitching-rich franchise, and tied with Ray Durham for 38th-best player overall. Our sincerely cond...2023
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• Sharing Sox Podcast 91 — Phillies phulphil while White Sox phlail and phlunk
And who needs a manager, anyway? Trying to stay awake during what seems like a 5 1⁄2 -year break between LCSs and the World Series, SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, indulge in a little nostalgia. That nostalgia ranges from the prospect of the return of Ozzieball to the new book that casts Frank Thomas as much more Big Jerk than Big Hurt in his playing day...2022
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Why Won't Anyone Take a Chance on Yoenis Cespedes?
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• Manny Machado hits a milestone
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• This Day in Braves History: Babe Ruth plays his final major league game

The Yankees legend ends his career in a Braves uniform. Braves Franchise History 1935: Babe Ruth makes his last major league appearance. He plays only the 1st inning of the opener of a doubleheader between the Boston Braves and Philadelphia Phillies at the Baker Bowl. Phillies pitcher Jim Bivin retires Ruth on an infield grounder in the Babe’s final major league at-bat. MLB History ...2025
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• MVP debates

Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images How’d that guy win? One of the beauties of today’s advanced baseball stats is it gives nerds like me a chance to go back in time and argue about how badly baseball writers mangled MVP and Cy Young votes in years past. I’ve always been in favor of making ballots public, if for no other reason than to shame homerism for undeserving candidates. Whether tha...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Tim Hudson signs a contract extension

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Icon SMI/Icon Sport Media via Getty Images The Georgia native agrees to stay in Braves Country for the long haul. Braves Franchise History 2000: Arbitrator Shyam Das cuts Atlanta Braves reliever John Rocker’s suspension from 28 days to just 14. 2005: The Braves and Tim Hudson reach an agreement on a four-year, $47 million contract extension. Photo b...2025
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• The Hall of Fame’s voting system is irretrievably broken

The Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in 2022 | Al Yellon The failure of Ichiro Suzuki to be unanimous clinched that. Monday’s announcement by the Hall of Fame that Ichiro Suzuki had been elected, but one vote short of unanimously on the 394 returned ballots by BBWAA members, runs the risk of making these Hall elections irrelevant. Some would argue that they already are, but let’s look at the po...2025
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• Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner elected to the Hall of Fame

Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images Carlos Beltrán is left out The Baseball Writers of America announced they have elected Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, and Billy Wagner as their 2025 Hall of Fame inductees. Former Royals outfielder Carlos Beltrán fell short of selection on his third year of eligibility. Ichiro Suzuki came to MLB after a prolific nine-year career in Japan where he was a t...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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• 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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• This Day in Braves History: Tim Hudson signs four year extension with Atlanta

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 2000 - Arbitrator Shyam Das cuts Braves reliever John Rocker’s suspension from 28 days to just 14. 2005 - The Braves and Tim Hudson reach an agreement on a four-year, $47 million contract extension. MLB History 1889 - The Philadelphia Quakers head to Jacksonville, Florida for spring training and will be the only major league c...2024
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• Today in Cubs history: The Lindy McDaniel game
lindymcdaniel.com The Cubs reliever did it all, helping put his team in a first-place tie. 1963 was a watershed year for the Chicago Cubs. The widely-mocked College of Coaches was quietly ended. Bob Kennedy led the team for the entire year, though his title was still given as “head coach,” and the team got off to a surprisingly good start. A good 16-12 May had them in contention, led by tw...2023
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