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The Negro Leagues Museum in Kansas City is something that I learned about much later on in my life as a baseball fan. Although I had always known there were Negro Leagues due to segregation in professional baseball before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, I didn’t realize that an Continue reading A Cubs Fan Tours the Negro Leagues Museum
Note: This blog post is from the fine folks at “The Planet of Baseball,” which you can find at theplanetofbaseball.com. The Chicago Cubs’ infield is one of the most promising young cores in all of baseball, and it is a large reason that they made history in 2016 with 4 of Continue reading Guest Post: How the Cubs’ Infielders Measure Up Against Other Teams
This is a fun treat for you. A friend of the blog associated with the gentleman in charge of “The Art of Words” wanted us to pass along the site where you can find his work. The featured product is a lovely print of pre-video board Wrigley Field, made with Continue reading The Cubs and the Art of Words
As we inch closer to when pitchers and catchers report everyone is getting excited to see what will happen for our Defending World Series Champion Chicago Cubs. Talk about an amazing time at the end of the 2016 baseball season. I was fortunate to be able to go to one Continue reading The Cubs’ Title Defense
Note: The following is a guest post from Crawly, a familiar sight to most of you that go to the Cubs Convention. You can follow Crawly at his Twitter, crawly’s cub kingdom, and probably meet him since he camps out to get the best seats for the Opening Ceremony. The Continue reading Guest Post: Crawly on the Cubs Convention
The Cubs have been eliminated from the National League Championship Series. If you stop to think about the reality of this situation, did you really think that 2015 would be the year? Looking at the way things have been since Tom Ricketts hired Theo Epstein in 2011, this was the Continue reading WOW! What A Season
Well this team sure as hell gets me excited for the rest of these playoffs and the future. This team battles back from deficits and deals with starters going down with injuries and beat the team that won 100 games. I mean Javier Baez came up in a huge spot Continue reading Who’s Next?
So far it has been a very entertaining 2015 baseball season for the Chicago Cubs. When Tom Ricketts was able to hire Theo Epstein, I told a lot of people that by 2015 the Cubs would be starting to contend and by 2020 the Cubs would win at least 1 Continue reading What A Ride So Far
This is Memorial Day weekend. While we will mostly be using this as a day off to recharge the batteries before the end of school and the summer vacation season, it’s also a time to remember all those who gave the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedoms so that you Continue reading Stuff You Can Do On Memorial Day
Behind the Ivy and Anno have both chimed in on the thing that is the most prominent in Cubs Nation today. Sometime in the evening of Friday January 23, 2015 the Chicago Cubs lost arguably the greatest player in the history of the franchise, ambassador of the game of baseball Continue reading I Am Sad