{"id":122797,"date":"2025-11-19T14:12:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=122797"},"modified":"2025-11-19T14:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:12:53","slug":"chicago-cubs-history-unpacked-november-19-belle-sosa-mcgwire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=122797","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs history unpacked, November 19 \u2014 Belle, Sosa, McGwire"},"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><\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 One of\u00a0Major League Baseball\u2018s most controversial owners,\u00a0Jerry Reinsdorf, and its most controversial player,\u00a0Albert Belle, join forces with the\u00a0Chicago White Sox. Belle signs a record five-year, $55 million deal that makes him the first player to surpass the $10 million per year mark. Reinsdorf, seen as the instigator in the owners\u2019 vote against the\u00a0collective bargaining agreement, draws the ire of owners in both leagues who feel he sold them out. (1,2)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Cubs Birthdays:<\/strong> Billy Sunday,\u00a0Stu Martin,\u00a0Manny Jimenez,\u00a0Dickie Noles,\u00a0Jeff Hartsock,\u00a0Jeff Gray. Also notable:\u00a0Roy Campanella\u00a0HOF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Today in History:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1620<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1805<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Lewis and Clark expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, reaches the Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross the west.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1863<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; \u201cFour score and seven years ago\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1873<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 William Magear Tweed (\u201cBoss Tweed\u201d) of Tammany Hall (NYC) is convicted of defrauding the city of $6 million and sentenced to 12 years\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1926<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Politburo in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award after it is learned they did not sing on their award-winning \u201cGirl You Know Its True\u201d album.<\/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":122798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2330,1629,283,139,4601,4600,424,4602,1143,4603,993,73,72,295,4317],"class_list":["post-122797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-american-league","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-cubs","tag-grand-pacific-hotel","tag-jerry-reinsdorf","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-national-agreement","tag-national-league","tag-national-league-mvp-award","tag-sammy-sosa","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-texas-rangers","tag-tom-connolly"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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