A wildly popular Cubs-centric look at baseball’s past. Here’s a handy Cubs timeline, to help you follow along as wereview select scenes from the rich tapestry of Chicago Cubs and Major League Baseball history. The embedded links often point to articles that I’ve chosen as illustrative of the scenes, from The Society for American Baseball Research, reproductions of period newspapers, images, and other such material.
You might learn something, but mostly, it’s for fun!
Today in baseball history:
- 1921 - ”The legend has been spread that the owners hired the Judge off the federal bench.