Now that’s a photo you probably never thought you’d see. It’s Andre Dawson, who had six outstanding years as a Cub wearing No. 8, uniformed in... No. 11.
My friend Tim Shockley told me recently he was looking through old photos and found this one he took of Andre at spring training 1987, the day after Dawson signed with the Cubs.
Obviously, Dawson never wore this number in a regular-season game. So how did this happen?
I was put in touch with Harry Sherman, a friend of Andre’s, and I asked Harry if he’d query the man himself about his memories of how this uniform number change happened more than 30 years ago.