On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,\u00a0Bleed Cubbie Blue\u00a0is pleased to present a light-hearted,\u00a0Cubs-centric look at baseball\u2019s colorful past.\u00a0Here\u2019s a handy Cubs timeline, to help you follow the various narrative paths.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe I called it wrong, but it\u2019s official.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Tom Connolly, HoF Umpire.<\/p>\n
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Happy birthday to me!<\/strong><\/p>\n Today in baseball history:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1945<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Happy Chandler, who had continued to serve in the U.S. Senate after becoming\u00a0commissioner, resigns his political office. He will move the commissioner\u2019s quarters to\u00a0Cincinnati. (2)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bill Giles,\u00a0Phillies\u00a0vice president for the past 11 years, heads a group that purchases the club for just over $30 million, the highest price paid to date for a major league club. Giles is the son of long-time\u00a0National League\u00a0president and\u00a0Hall of Fame\u00a0member\u00a0Warren C. Giles. (1,2)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Mets\u00a0hire prominent\u00a0player agent\u00a0Brodie Van Wagenen\u00a0as their\u00a0General Manager, replacing\u00a0Sandy Alderson. Other GMs have worked briefly as agents in the past, but none so prominent as Van Wagenen, who heads his own firm, CAA Baseball, and has a number of his clients currently playing in the organization. (2)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Cubs Birthdays<\/strong>: Mark Baldwin,\u00a0Solly Hofman,\u00a0Richie Barker,\u00a0Arismendy Alcantara.<\/p>\n Today in History:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1390 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0First trial for witchcraft in Paris.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 1618<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 English adventurer, writer and courtier\u00a0Walter Raleigh\u00a0is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against King James I of England.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 1889<\/strong>\u00a0\u201dWorld Championship\u201d Baseball Series, Polo Grounds, NYC: defending champion NY Giants (NL) beat Brooklyn Bridegrooms (AA), 3-2 in Game 9 to claim series, 6-3.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 1929 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u201dBlack Tuesday\u201d Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the \u201cGreat Depression.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 1945 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Happy Chandler resigns as US Senator, remains as baseball commissioner<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 1967 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni and James Rado\u2019s musical \u201cHair\u201d premieres in NYC<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 1969<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 US Supreme Court orders end to all school segregation \u201cat once.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Common sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n *pictured.<\/p>\n Things are as near to the truth as we can get them. Some of these items spread from site to site without being fact-checked, and that is why we ask for\u00a0verifiable<\/em>\u00a0sources, so that we can help update the records\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0have documentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Chicago Cubs-centric M-W-F digest, with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":114025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4324,776,4315,4316,4319,3399,1398,4322,139,4216,4318,4323,4326,76,2226,424,651,77,4325,72,4320,4317,4327,4321],"class_list":["post-114024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-arismendy-alcantara","tag-baseball-hall-of-fame","tag-bill-giles","tag-branch-rickey","tag-brodie-van-wagenen","tag-carlos-santana","tag-cincinnati","tag-corey-kluber","tag-cubs","tag-florida-marlins","tag-happy-chandler","tag-jason-kipnis","tag-john-lackey","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kris-bryant","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mets","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-ny-giants","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-today-in-baseball-history","tag-tom-connolly","tag-travis-wood","tag-vice-president"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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