{"id":124718,"date":"2025-11-24T13:50:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=124718"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:50:36","slug":"chicago-cubs-history-unpacked-november-24-joe-tinker-bob-kennedy-jeimer-candelario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=124718","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs history unpacked, November 24 \u2014 Joe Tinker, Bob Kennedy, Jeimer Candelario"},"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>Happy birthday to Dave Hansen* and other former Cubs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Today in baseball history:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1953<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Brooklyn Dodgers\u00a0sign the relatively unknown\u00a0Walter Alston\u00a0to a one-year pact as their\u00a0manager\u00a0for next season. Alston, who had served as the skipper of the Dodgers\u2019 Triple-A affiliate in\u00a0Montreal, replaces\u00a0Chuck Dressen\u00a0after\u00a0Pee Wee Reese\u00a0turns down the job. Alston will manage the Dodgers in Brooklyn and Los Angeles over the next 23 seasons, winning 2,040 games and four\u00a0World Championships. He will sign a one-year contract every year. (1,2)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Cubs Birthdays:<\/strong> Pete Noonan,\u00a0Billy Rogell,\u00a0Dave Hansen*,\u00a0Jeimer Candelario. Also notable:\u00a0Joe Medwick\u00a0HOF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Today in History:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1221<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Battle of the Indus: Genghis Khan\u2019s Mongol force defeats Shah Jalal ad-Din\u2019s army, last battle in Mongolian conquest of Khwarezmian Empire.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1434<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 River Thames in London freezes over.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1639<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 First observation of\u00a0transit of Venus\u00a0by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree \u2013 helped establish size of the Solar System.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1715<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 London\u2019s Thames River freezes over.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1859<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes \u201cOn the Origin of Species\u201d radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1874<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 American inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1966<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Beatles began recording sessions for their album \u201cSgt.Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1971<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 American D. B. Cooper (\u201cDan Cooper\u201d) hijacks plane, extorts $200,000 ransom before jumping out of plane over\u00a0Washington State, never seen again.<\/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","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":124719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4652,4655,4654,4653,284,139,4650,78,4656,3725,1628,83,49,4317,4651,296],"class_list":["post-124718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-american-association","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-atlantics","tag-brooklyn-robins","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cubs","tag-dave-hansen","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-jeimer-candelario","tag-leo-durocher","tag-los-angeles","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-tom-connolly","tag-walter-alston","tag-washington-nationals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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