Former Cubs manager Lou Piniella is up for Hall of Fame consideration along with seven other baseball managers, executives and umpires who will be voted on by the Contemporary Baseball Era (1980 to present) committee next month.
Lou’s tenure with the Cubs, which lasted just short of four seasons, did not result in a World Series appearance. But Lou did help guide a team that had lost 96 games in 2006 to a division title in 2007, and another in 2008 when the team won 97 games, its most since 1945. That was the 100th anniversary of the Cubs’ previous World Series win and.