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• Wrigley Field historical sleuthing: Chicago streetcar edition

This is a really good color photo. Here we have a Chicago streetcar — something that’s been gone from Chicago streets for nearly 70 years — passing in front of Wrigley Field. Once again, for your perusal, here’s the full photo: This is a really good look at the marquee when it was painted the... well, sort of off-blue, off-green color it was until 1965. Streetcars stopped running in C...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Convention: Craig Counsell and his coaching staff talked hitting, baseball trends and heart

Craig Counsell at the 2024 MLB Winter Meetings | Jerome Miron-Imagn Images This was a more light-hearted and transparent conversation One of the things that’s changed at Cubs Convention since Jed Hoyer took over as President of Baseball Operations is the distinct difference in tone between the Front Office panel and every other panel at the event. It’s striking the first time you see it. I...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Convention: Jed Hoyer and Carter Hawkins discuss Matt Shaw, park effects and the bullpen

Jed Hoyer and Carter Hawkins in 2021 when Hoyer introduced Hawkins as general manager | Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images But you’re probably going to be disappointed if you wanted concrete answers The first panel Saturday morning at Cubs Convention was a conversation with Jed Hoyer and Carter Hawkins, just as it has been every year since 2022. Having wat...2025
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• Derrek Lee and Sammy Sosa voted to the Cubs Hall of Fame, and Cubs Convention open thread

John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Cubs players, past and present, and fans are gathered at the Sheraton Grand in downtown Chicago. Sammy Sosa was welcomed back to the Cubs family Friday night at the Opening Ceremony of the Cubs Convention, and at the same time, Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts announced that Sosa and Derrek Lee would be the newest inductees to the...2025
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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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• The Cubs introduce a new alternate uniform celebrating Chicago blues

Chicago Cubs It’s an homage to the past, but also a cool new look. To coincide with this weekend’s Cubs Convention, the Cubs today announced a new uniform, in a “baby blue” color, that’s intended to be a nod to several different styles of older Cubs uniforms, and also to celebrate Chicago blues music. Here’s the intro video the Cubs put on social media late Thursday. (Click here for the vi...2025
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• Derrek Lee and Sammy Sosa voted to the Cubs Hall of Fame, and Cubs Convention open thread
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 15

Happy Birthday, Matt Duffy | Photo by Rob Leiter/MLB Photos via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Matt Duffy* and others, and stories of baseball deeds and misdeeds. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colo...2025
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• Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax

Photo by Mary Turner/Getty Images The Cubs still have a lot of space under the luxury tax. Spend it, Jed. Now that the deadline for arbitration-eligible players to sign before hearings has passed and Kyle Tucker is the only such Cub unsigned for this year, I thought it would be a good idea to take another look at the 2025 team payroll, projected roster and luxury tax situation. As usual, T...2025
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• Hall of Famers and other significant players who had brief cameos with the Cubs

Goose Gossage pitching for the Cubs in 1988 | Photo by Rich Pilling/MLB Photos via Getty Images This article was prompted by a reader comment. In the comments regarding Max Scherzer in BCB After Dark, discussion turned to players who had good or great careers and who eventually wound up with the Cubs late in their careers. I said that “never, ever” worked and of course, that’s my usual hyp...2025
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1925

Rabbit Maranville | Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images This was a rough year for the North Siders. But they did make a couple of good acquisitions. The 1925 season was a peculiar outlier in franchise history. After three decent seasons where the Cubs finished with winning records but well out of first place, they collapsed and finished last in 1925 at 68-86 — their first-eve last-place...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Are there non-elite free agent relief pitchers the Cubs should sign?

Kirby Yates pitches against the Cubs at Wrigley Field in 2019 | Photo by David Banks/Getty Images Despite a lull, it is still hot stove season Welcome back to your late week, late night indie coffee shop where we’re discussing all things Cubs and some things just baseball. We’ve got mocktails if you’re doing a Dry January, or traditional cocktails if you aren’t. Take off your coat, get war...2025
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• A tribute to Morganna the Kissing Bandit

Photo by Dale Brazao/Toronto Star via Getty Images The kissing bandit of baseball Okay, you asked for it and I’ll deliver it. Specifically, Karldared asked for it, but you’re all still getting it. Karl asked me if I’d write a remembrance about Morganna the Kissing Bandit. I thought I had covered this ample territory in an earlier story, but a quick Google check shows it was just a figment ...2025
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• The fascinating life story of former Cubs pitcher Moe Drabowsky

Moe Drabowsky and his first wife Liz, while Drabowsky was with the A’s in 1962 | Courtesy David Driver He had quite a life after his family left Poland just before Nazis took over in the 1930s. Sportswriter and author David Driver approached me some time ago with a proposal to post an article here on former major league pitcher Moe Drabowsky, who pitched for the Cubs from 1956-60. In fact,...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 1

Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Wee Willie Keeler and Don Larsen* pass on, 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 f...2025
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• Ryne Sandberg’s cancer has, unfortunately, returned

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Not good news for the Cubs Hall of Famer Over the past year, we learned that Cubs Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, undergone treatment and had been declared cancer-free. A statue was dedicated in his honor in Gallagher Way next to Wrigley Field last June 23, on the 40th anniversary of the famous Sandberg Ga...2024
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• MLB should consider starting the regular season later

Getty Images Weather in northern cities is just bad in late March/early April. Monday’s Cubs home opener was played in conditions not really suitable for baseball. It was 43 degrees at game time — bad enough — but then around the sixth inning it started raining, making conditions miserable for fans and players alike. The weather forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday isn’t any better, in fact,...2024
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• Wrigley Field will need some changes before MLB awards the Cubs an All-Star Game

Looking west down Addison Street past Wrigley Field, January 17, 2024 | Mike Bojanowski It has to do with ballpark security. The Cubs last hosted an All-Star Game at Wrigley Field in 1990. The only current MLB park that previously hosted a Midsummer Classic that’s had a longer hosting drought is the Oakland Coliseum, which last hosted one in 1987 — and I’m pretty sure you can understand wh...2024
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• Cubs 7, Blue Jays 5: At last, a win in Canada
Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images The Cubs ended a 14-year losing streak north of the border. TORONTO — It required six relievers (seven, if you count Luke Farrell on what was a bullpen day) and some timely hitting, but Wednesday night the Cubs ended a losing streak in Canada that had lasted more than 14 years. Sure, it was only a five-game Canadian losing streak (three in 2014, the first ...2022
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"But he also nodded to Cubs fans when singing the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field in 2015: He sang, appropriately, “I’ll root, root, root for the Brewers, you do the same for the Cubs."

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"A-Ram also gave us some magical moments at Wrigley Field; perhaps the best of them was this two-run walkoff home run against the Brewers in 2007 [VIDEO]."

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"Mark Grace and Shawon Dunston in 1997 | VINCENT LAFORET/AFP via Getty Images They’ll be honored at Wrigley Field September 8-10."

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"In any case, I was very happy to see Contreras in the lineup the Tuesday before the trade deadline so the Wrigley Field faithful could give him a sendoff, and they did that in tremendous fashion, as I wrote in the game recap."

2021
"Fans visiting a newly approved sportsbook will be able to enter Wrigley Field from inside, but they won't be required to be attending the game to make bets."

2020
"The city of Chicago has approved Wrigley Field rooftop stands for 25% capacity setups and tickets have gone on sale at one viewing venue for $350."

2019
"The Cubs’ reported lack of spending capacity has been the offseason’s main storyline out of Wrigley Field, though in a recent radio interview on 670 The Score (partial transcript here), president of baseball operations Theo Epstein dismissed the idea that the Competitive Balance Tax is “dictating any of our actions or inactions this winter at…"

2018
"A 20-year-old Cubs fan is suing team owners to force them to provide better wheelchair access at Wrigley Field."

2017
"The Cubs' second-half offensive surge continued on Saturday at Wrigley Field as Rene Rivera smacked his first career grand slam, Anthony Rizzo reached 100 RBIs with a bases-clearing triple and Javier Baez added a solo home run and RBI double to post a 14-12 victory over the Braves for Chicago's sixth straight win."

2016
"The Cubs are headed to the World Series for the first time since 1945 after they defeated Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers, 5-0, in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series on Saturday night at Wrigley Field in Chicago."

2015
"PHOTO: Wrigley Field showing Stanley Cup Final on big screen during rain delay"

2014
"SAN DIEGO — Suddenly, in the middle of the night on the East Coast, construction on the Chicago Cubs’ roster dramatically blew past the construction that is remodeling Wrigley Field."

• 2025 Cubs Convention: Craig Counsell and his coaching staff talked hitting, baseball trends and heart
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1917
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• BCB After Dark: What was your favorite Bob Uecker moment?

Bob Uecker in the Press Box before singing the 7th inning stretch at Wrigley Field | Getty Mr. Baseball has passed away at 90, RIP to a legend Welcome to your late week, late night, indie coffee pop-up shop. It’s cold and cloudy in Chicago on the eve of Cubs Convention weekend, but we’ve got coffee and tea to warm your soul. We have decaf if your New Year’s Resolution was to get less caffe...2025
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• Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker has died

Bob Uecker throws out a ceremonial pitch in 2023 | Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images And he was so much more than just a baseball announcer. The baseball world has lost a great broadcaster and friend today: We are heartbroken to announce that Brewers icon & Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Uecker passed away today at the age of 90 pic.twitter.com/EJRBC8Cjj4— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) Janua...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 15
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• Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
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• Hall of Famers and other significant players who had brief cameos with the Cubs
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• Former MLB pitcher Brian Matusz has died

Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Far too young, only 37. Brian Matusz pitched in exactly one game for the Cubs. I have tremendously sad news to report to you about him: Very sad to hear that former #orioles pitcher Brian Matusz passed away this morning. Was 37. 4th-overall pick in 2008 draft.— Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch) January 8, 2025 That’s far too young for anyone to leave thi...2025
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1925
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• Cubs free agent target: Carlos Estévez

Photo by Heather Barry/Getty Images This reliever might be a useful guy for the Cubs bullpen. Here’s another guy I wasn’t going to write about connected to the Cubs, but then he appeared in this Jim Bowden article in The Athletic Monday, about who he considers the top 15 remaining free agents. Here’s what Bowden wrote: Like [Kirby] Yates, Estévez probably has to wait until Scott signs befo...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Convention: Craig Counsell and his coaching staff talked hitting, baseball trends and heart
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• 2025 Cubs Convention: Jed Hoyer and Carter Hawkins discuss Matt Shaw, park effects and the bullpen
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• BCB After Dark: What was your favorite Bob Uecker moment?
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 15
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1925
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• A tribute to Morganna the Kissing Bandit
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• BCB After Dark: Which top remaining reliever should the Cubs sign?

Jeff Hoffman throws a pitch in July at Wrigley Field | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images There are still elite free agent options available Welcome to 2025 and welcome to your late night indie coffee house where we specialize in coffee, tea and any number of alcoholic libations that you may welcome on a cold winter’s night. Josh left us a spectacular setting for banter, music and vibes,...2025
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• Cam Fowler scores twice as the Blues beat the Blackhawks 6-2 in the Winter Classic at Wrigley Field

CHICAGO (AP) — Cam Fowler scored twice in his 1,000th NHL game, and the St. Louis Blues beat the Chicago Blackhawks 6-2 on Tuesday in the Winter Classic at Wrigley Field....2025
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• Cody Bellinger has been traded from the Cubs to the Yankees

Getty Images It happened. We don’t have much more information right now, but I wanted to get this article to you while the information is fresh: BREAKING: OF/1B Cody Bellinger has been traded from the Chicago Cubs to the New York Yankees, sources tell ESPN. Bellinger, 29, is a former MVP and has two years remaining on his contract with an opt-out after 2025. Yankees continue to be aggres...2024
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• Cubs 14, Nationals 1: Sweep!

Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images The Cubs just completed their best road trip in many years. You did not expect an 8-1 Cubs road trip. None of us did. And yet, the Cubs, playing their best baseball of the year, did it at exactly the time they needed to, completing a three-game sweep of the Nationals with a convincing 14-1 win. It’s their sixth win in a row, a season high. They’ve also w...2024
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• 2025 Cubs Convention: Craig Counsell and his coaching staff talked hitting, baseball trends and heart
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• Derrek Lee and Sammy Sosa voted to the Cubs Hall of Fame, and Cubs Convention open thread
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• BCB After Dark: What was your favorite Bob Uecker moment?
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• Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker has died
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 15
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• Cubs historical sleuthing: Ernie Banks signs autographs at home edition

Bettman Archive Just when did the Cubs Hall of Famer sign these scorecards? Getty Images says: Chicago Cubs shortstop Ernie Banks signs autographs at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Banks would go on to win the Most Valuable Player award in the 1958 and ‘59 seasons. Okay, so what we know is that this was before or during the 1958 season. This scorecard, visible at the center of the photo, is def...2025
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• Former MLB pitcher Brian Matusz has died
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• A tribute to Morganna the Kissing Bandit
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• Dodgers' Series dream ends with loss to Cubs
The Cubs are headed to the World Series for the first time since 1945 after they defeated Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers, 5-0, in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series on Saturday night at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The Cubs won the best-of-seven series, four games to two, to wrap up the 11th NL pennant in franchise history....2016
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• PHOTO: Wrigley Field showing Stanley Cup Final on big screen during rain delay
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• Braves fall short in slugfest vs. Cubs
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• With first Wrigley clinch, Cubs move on to NLCS
For the first time in the history of Wrigley Field, the Cubs clinched a postseason series at home, edging the mighty Cardinals, 6-4, in Game 4 of the National League Division Series. The Cubs now can party as they wait to see whether they'll face the Mets or the Dodgers in the NL Championship Series, which opens on Saturday....2015
• Cards denied 5th straight NLCS appearance
For the first time in the history of Wrigley Field, the Cubs clinched a postseason series at home, edging the mighty Cardinals, 6-4, in Game 4 of the National League Division Series. The Cubs now can party as they wait to see whether they'll face the Mets or the Dodgers in the NL Championship Series, which opens on Saturday....2015
• Cubs sink Cards' 'pen after Waino-Lester duel
On Friday night, the Cardinals scored nine runs in the eighth inning to post a win over the Cubs. On Saturday, the Cubs got some payback. Kris Bryant hit a game-tying RBI single and scored on Anthony Rizzo's double, both with two outs in the eighth inning, to lift the Cubs to a 3-2 victory over the Cardinals at Wrigley Field....2017
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• 'Pen can't hold off Cubs after HRs back Waino
On Friday night, the Cardinals scored nine runs in the eighth inning to post a win over the Cubs. On Saturday, the Cubs got some payback. Kris Bryant hit a game-tying RBI single and scored on Anthony Rizzo's double, both with two outs in the eighth inning, to lift the Cubs to a 3-2 victory over the Cardinals at Wrigley Field....2017
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• Dodgers dealt NLCS blow; face must-win Game 6
The Cubs are one win away from their first World Series appearance since 1945 after their 8-4 win over the Dodgers in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series on Thursday night at Dodger Stadium. Chicago leads the best-of-seven series, three games to two, with Game 6 scheduled for Saturday at Wrigley Field....2016
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• Cubs' Hype-Filled Roster Still at Least a Year Away from MLB Success
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• The Cubs introduce a new alternate uniform celebrating Chicago blues
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• The Cubs will be on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball twice in the first half of 2025

Al Yellon The Worldwide Leader will be coming to Wrigley Field. Wednesday, ESPN announced its Sunday Night Baseball broadcast schedule through June 1, and also a couple of games beyond that, as well as the Little League Classic in August (Mariners vs. Mets). The Cubs will be on SNB twice in April. First, the finale of their three-game series at Dodger Stadium Sunday, April 13 will be carri...2025
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• 5 bold predictions for the 2025 Cubs

Photo by Jasen Vinlove/Miami Marlins/Getty Images In which I go out on the proverbial limb to forecast the year to come. Usually, I post an article toward the end of the year revisiting my bold predictions for the Cubs for that season. Why didn’t I do that in 2024? Because not one of my five bold predictions came true. Not even close. I give you the link here because in hindsight, several ...2025
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• Nationals 5, Cubs 1: Almost Gored

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Nats lefthander MacKenzie Gore took a no-hitter into the seventh inning before it was broken up. Kyle Hendricks deserved better. This was his penultimate start at Wrigley Field as a Cub — presuming he’s not back next year, and I don’t think he will be — and for five-plus innings, Kyle threw pretty well, allowing just a single run in the second. Then he ...2024
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1925
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• Cubs 4, Astros 3: Getting the job done

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Dansby Swanson’s three-run homer highlighted a four-run first inning that the Cubs made hold up for another win. It wasn’t the best of games. Cubs hitters struck out 12 times. Some sketchy defense helped lead to a Houston run. The Cubs had only one hit after the fourth inning. And yet, the Cubs put a large crooked number on the board in the first inning f...2024
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• Another update on the Oakland A’s to Las Vegas situation

Fans at the Oakland Coliseum in September 2022 | Al Yellon Just when you thought it couldn’t get messier, it has. Gonna say this right now, off the top, so we’re all on the same page: If this topic doesn’t interest you, go pass it on by and click on some other BCB article. I think the issues surrounding the Oakland Athletics’ proposed move to Las Vegas are important for the entire future o...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Convention: It’s all about Cody Bellinger

Cody Bellinger celebrates a hit in August | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Will it finally move the Cubs front office to make a big deal? A week ago it looked like fans might be bringing pitchforks and torches to Cubs Convention. In fact, 24 hours before the 37th annual winter gathering of Cubs fans kicked off in downtown Chicago I was wondering what the turnout would look like. A st...2024
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• This might end up being the best Braves lineup in franchise history
Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Atlanta Braves as a franchise have had some fantastic offenses dating back to their days in Boston. This might be the best in that long, long line. Yesterday afternoon, the Atlanta Braves walloped the Los Angeles Angels 12-5. This included a six-run barrage in the fourth inning that ultimately put the game out of reach at 9-1 at that point. The baseba...2023
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• Cubs Land Jon Lester in Late-Night Strike, and Dreams of Contending Soar
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Time for Peavy, Hudson to Take Baton from MadBum
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