Tag Archives: Chicago Cubs

A Cubs Fan’s Preview of the 2018 Baseball Season:  With so many talented players in the major leagues and no single, dominant team, the 2018 baseball season should provide plenty of thrills and excitement, by Robert “B.C.” Carlson

Here’s a question for Chicago Cubs fans:  Which player hit the club’s farthest home run in 2017?  You would be forgiven if you said Kyle Schwarber; after all, Scwarbs, who is built like an NFL lineman, hit five of the team’s ten deepest dingers.  But you’d be wrong.  On October 18, catcher Willson Contreras launched …

Great Cubs Post on Grantland, by Chuck Strom

Great piece from Charles Pierce on the Cubs win last night. http://grantland.com/the-triangle/beatdown-the-cubs-keelhaul-the-bucs-in-pittsburgh/ Pierce appears to have made a regular assignment of covering Wild Card playoff games in Pittsburgh. This is the one he wrote last year when the Giants paid their visit. http://grantland.com/the-triangle/baseball-playoffs-mlb-roger-goodells/ Even as they suffered their second year of one-and-done disappointment, last night’s …

The Chicago Cubs are Headed for 100 Losses in Wrigley’s 100th Year, By Mark Erickson

The Chicago Cubs will celebrate the 100th anniversary of playing at Wrigley Field this year! Think of the historic events. Babe Ruth’s “called shot.” Kid K’s breakout game. Harry Caray. The collapse of 1969. Jose Cardenal’s afro. Sutcliffe going 16-1. Andre Dawson’s magical MVP season. Bartman. All of the aforementioned took place without a World …

The Original Curse: Did the Chicago Cubs Inspire the Black Sox Scandal by throwing the 1918 World Series against Babe Ruth and the Boston Red Sox?

“I moved to Chicago for Major League Baseball, I might leave for the same reason.” – Jethro Burns I skimmed The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Inspire the Black Sox by throwing the 1918 World Series against Babe Ruth’s Red Sox? by Sean Deveney in the library and it’s fabulous, a well told sports story …

Jethro Burns, Tony Moore, Chet Atkins, Elvis Presley, Jerry Reed – BernardStreetCred Returns

“I moved to Chicago for Major League Baseball, I might leave for the same reason.” – Jethro Burns A recent communiqué from BernardStreetCred: If you spy a copy of the rather expensive magazine Fretboard Journal, there’s a lovely, long article about Jethro Burns in it. Good stories from Sam Bush and Don Stiernberg, among others. …