In my 40 years of following the Cubs, I have seen a great many men come through town while donning the tools of ignorance—they collectively comprise a tapestry that ranges the entire characteristic gamut. From the outstanding (our current catcher, one Willson Contreras, who after these past 40 years is well on his way to […]
In this regular feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week we feature Tim Hosley. Timing is everything. Some people have that uncanny knack for being in the […]
In this regular feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week we feature Mike “King” Kelly. Slide, Kelly, slide Your running’s a disgrace! Slide, Kelly, Slide! Stay there, […]
In this regular feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week we feature J.C. Martin. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. – some motivational poster or something. J.C. […]
In this regular feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week we feature Mickey Livingston. Mickey Livingston was the embodiment of a baseball journeyman. His page on Baseball-Reference […]
In this regular feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week we feature Steve Christmas. Look, we do CotW on Wednesdays, Christmas is on a Wednesday, and there’s […]
This edition of Shitty Cubs Games I’ve Attended does not involve a trip to Clark & Addison, but rather, 10 stops south on the red line at Sox Park (I have no idea if Comiskey Park had been re-branded as US Cellular Field by 2002 and I don’t care enough to look it up). Heading […]
In this feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week we feature Smoky Burgess. “Smoky Burgess was fat. Not baseball fat like Mickey Lolich or Early Wynn. But […]
In this feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week we feature Barry Foote. In my musings about the Cubs–both internal and out loud–I often view my fandom […]
I’ve been a Cubs’ fan for just over twenty years – a little unusual considering I’m in my mid-forties, but then baseball wasn’t really a thing where I grew up. These days, I live in the Netherlands, where although baseball is relatively widely played, the dearth of Dutch players in the Major Leagues* shows only […]