Bleed Cubbie Blue · Feb 21, 2022
Cubs historical sleuthing: Rick Reuschel edition
If this photo looks familiar, it should: Josh used it as the lead photo for BCB After Dark on Wednesday night/Thursday morning.
A sharp-eyed reader noticed something and wondered if I could sleuth it. Here’s what I got emailed from that reader:
At first, it seems to contain no info other than Reuschel’s uniform. But isn’t that someone in one of those 1970’s White Sox jerseys at the far right? It looks like a night game with a big crowd. Would the Cubs have used their ace in some sort of exhibition game?
That is correct, and I hadn’t noticed that at first. That’s definitely a Sox uniform from the late 1970s. Here’s what Getty Images says about the photo;