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Cubs fans
A minister friend of mine is a sports fan. He reminds me every fall that there are four seasons in professional baseball: the regular 162-game season, the five-game playoffs, followed by the seven-game series for the National and American League titles....Tags: American League, Major League Baseball
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'34 classic was true Hall of Fame game
Q: With the All-Star Game coming up, I have a few questions about the midsummer classic. 1) Was there ever a year when all the starters from one league went to the Hall Of Fame? 2) Who has the highest ERA in All-Star competition and lowest batting average...Tags: Bill Terry, Voting, Atlanta Braves, Lefty Gomez, Multi-Sport Events
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The called shot
Tribune staff reporterDespite the decades, the debate will not die. Did Babe Ruth call his shot or not? It happened--if it did happen--while Ruth was at the plate at Wrigley Field in the third game of the 1932 World Series. It was a 4-4 score. The New York Yankees had won the...Tags: Babe Ruth, Chicago Cubs, Major League Baseball, New York Yankees, Wrigley Field
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The first All-Star game
Tribune staff reporterWhile the "Century of Progress" World's Fair was in full swing, anevent occurred on this day that changed baseball history: the first All-Star game. A few months earlier, Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly had gone to Col. Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the...Tags: American League, Babe Ruth, Multi-Sport Events, U.S. Cellular Field, National League
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All-time Hall of Fame voting percentages
The Associated PressPlayer, Year, Cast, Votes, Pct. Tom Seaver 1992 430 425 98.84 Nolan Ryan 1999 497 491 98.79 Cal Ripken Jr. 2007 545 537 98.53 Ty Cobb 1936 226 222 98.23 George Brett 1999 497 488 98.19 Hank Aaron 1982 415 406 97.83 Tony Gwynn 2007 545 532 97.61...Tags: Eddie Collins, Hank Greenberg, Juan Marichal, Bob Lemon, Whitey Ford
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99 things every real Cubs fan should know
What's the Curse of the Billy Goat?
It started during the 1945 World Series, which pitted the Cubs against the Detroit Tigers. The Cubs refused to let Billy Goat Tavern owner William Sianis bring his lucky goat inside Wrigley Field for Game 4. An angry...Tags: Scott Eyre, Government, Billy Goat Tavern, Joe Tinker, Sean Gallagher
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June 20, 2006
Dear Tom, I've been to northern Scotland in June and with late sunsets and early sunrises it never gets totally dark. Is this the gloaming? Genevieve Boyle Johnson Palos Heights, Ill. Dear Genevieve, The gloaming is another name for twilight, the period...Tags: Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field
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Ask Paul Sullivan
Ask Paul returns to answer questions about Dusty's reprieve, the snub of Sammy, how to handle abuse from those haughty Royals fans and more. Hearing that Derrek Lee's re-entry onto the DL ensures Baker will remain until year's end is not only...Tags: Scott Eyre, Sammy Sosa, Voting, Ronny Cedeno, Chicago Cubs
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From the Cubicle
Well, with Greg Maddux coming up empty on his bid for 15 wins and Derrek Lee 10 points up in the batting title race, story lines are scarce here in the final threads of playing out the string. So let's create some. Mark Prior (11-6, 3.73) can get 13 wins...Tags: Henry Blanco, Ryan Theriot, Healthcare Policies, Ryan Dempster, Will Ohman
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Year-by-year inductees
(BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; VC: Elected by the Veterans Committee; NL: Elected by the Veterans Committee based on Negro league career): 1936 -- BBWAA: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus...Tags: Bob Lemon, Rube Foster, Honus Wagner, Catfish Hunter, Joe Morgan
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From the cubicle
ChicagoSports.comWe're going to try our hardest to channel the ghost of Old Tomato Face himself, Cubs Hall of Famer Gabby Hartnett, as the Cubs and Yankees get it on in a rematch of the 1938 World Series--or as some might call it: Jeter vs. The Cheater. No surprise...Tags: Kyle Farnsworth, Sammy Sosa, Antonio Alfonseca, Alex Gonzalez, Chicago Cubs
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Cubs finally get All-Star manager
Associated PressFor the first time in more than a half-century, a Chicago Cub is in line to be an All-Star manager. New Cubs manager Dusty Baker is expected to get the honor at next year's game at Comiskey Park in Chicago as reward for leading the San Francisco...Tags: Joe McCarthy, Chicago Cubs, Multi-Sport Events, Al Lopez, U.S. Cellular Field
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