{"id":121958,"date":"2025-11-17T15:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=121958"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:19:57","slug":"chicago-cubs-history-unpacked-november-17-sveum-quade-bryant-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=121958","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs history unpacked, November 17 \u2014 Sveum, Quade, Bryant, Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,\u00a0Bleed Cubbie Blue\u00a0is pleased to present a\u00a0Cubs-centric look at baseball\u2019s colorful past.\u00a0Here\u2019s a handy Cubs timeline, to help you follow the various narrative paths.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cMaybe I called it wrong, but it\u2019s official.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Tom Connolly, HoF Umpire.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Today in baseball history:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1903<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chicago Cubs\u00a0shortstop\u00a0Joe Tinker\u00a0tells an interviewer that it is \u201cimpossible to fix\u201d a major league baseball game. (2)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1953<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0St. Louis Browns\u00a0officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc. The Baltimore franchise board officially changes its name to the\u00a0Orioles, the traditional name for baseball teams from the city.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1965<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Major League Baseball\u00a0owners unanimously elect\u00a0William D. Eckert\u00a0as\u00a0Commissioner, succeeding\u00a0Ford Frick, who leaves office after 14 years. Eckert, a retired Lt. General in the United States Air Force, becomes baseball\u2019s fourth commissioner. He will serve only one term before being replaced by\u00a0Bowie Kuhn. (1,2)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>2011<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Chicago Cubs\u00a0announce they have hired\u00a0Dale Sveum\u00a0as their new manager, replacing\u00a0Mike Quade. Sveum managed the\u00a0Milwaukee Brewers\u00a0at the tail end of the\u00a02008\u00a0season, ending a swoon and leading them through their first playoff appearance since the\u00a01982 World Series, but has not managed since. (2)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>2020<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Theo Epstein, the architect behind the\u00a0Chicago Cubs\u2019\u00a02016 World Series\u00a0title that ended a drought of over a century, and before that of the\u00a0Boston Red Sox\u2018 first title in almost 90 years in\u00a02004\u00a0as the original wunderkind\u00a0General Manager, resigns from his job as team President of the Cubs. Still in his 40s, he is likely to look for a new challenge in baseball at some point in the future, but for now he sticks to his principle that a senior executive should not stay with an organization for more than ten years. (2)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Cubs Birthdays:<\/strong> Tom Dettore,\u00a0Mitch Williams,\u00a0Darnell McDonald,\u00a0Scott Moore. Also notable:\u00a0Tom Seaver\u00a0HOF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Today in History:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1603<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 English explorer, writer and courtier Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1869<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking Mediterranean and Red seas.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1926<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 NHL\u2019s Chicago Black Hawks play their first game, beat Toronto St Pats 4-1.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1973<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 US President Richard Nixon tells AP: \u201c\u2026people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I\u2019m not a crook.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Common sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">*pictured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Some of these items spread from site to site without being fact-checked, and that is why we ask for\u00a0<em>verifiable<\/em>\u00a0sources, so that we can help update the records\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0have documentation. Also, this is supposed to be\u00a0<em>fun<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffA Chicago Cubs-centric M-W-F digest, with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":121959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1415,4585,47,139,2226,424,290,1143,1962,49,4320,4317],"class_list":["post-121958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-baseball-club-inc","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-cubs","tag-kris-bryant","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-national-league","tag-orioles","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-today-in-baseball-history","tag-tom-connolly"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chicago Cubs history unpacked, November 17 \u2014 Sveum, Quade, Bryant, Epstein - 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