Bleed Cubbie Blue · Jul 10, 2018
You’re invited to John Baker Day 2018
Cubs fans ask me all the time how the idea of John Baker Day came to be. Well, have you ever had a drunken night at the longest Cubs game in team history (by time), that culminated in three straight years of raising thousands of dollars for charity with a former Cubs player?
You probably answered no.
As would have I the morning of July 30, 2014 with a still-too-drunk-to-be-hungover feeling as I picked up a guitar to write a song about my sordid experience the night before. That song was called “The Night the Backup Catcher Got the Win,” since re-recorded with John’s brother Will on trombone and re-titled “The Ballad of John Baker.“