Cubs historical sleuthing: A different type of sleuth

Normally, when you see a sleuthing article here, I give you a photo and try to identify when it was taken, and possibly ID the players in the photo if they’re not already.

This time, I was intrigued by a paragraph in this Paul Sullivan column in the Tribune posted Tuesday which was mostly about Antonio Brown and other players who had walked out on their teams.

The relevant paragraph, about when an athlete decides to leave his sport:

That moment comes for every athlete, though sometimes it’s less about lacking “the desire to compete” and more about reality hitting you squarely in the face. When the news hit Wrigley Field before a Cubs game in 2013 that a former teammate who had been traded and…