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Time for Chicago Cubs to Closet Their Ghosts

Bring on the billy goats, black cats, Bartmans or any other innocuous superstition. Chicago Cubs baseball has done something in its storied history for only the 15th time in the last 105 major league seasons - reach post-season play.
It was neither pretty nor predictable for the Chicago Cubs despite spring training expectations and an […]

Posted 30 September 2007 † Corked Bat § Comments & Opinion ‡ Comments (0)

Coast to Coast Toast

As Chicago Cubs baseball embarks on a six-game road trip to the Left Coast, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on the last time the club packed its bags and left home. As I think we all remember it, the trip was frustrating at its finest, woeful at its worst.
The […]

Posted 22 May 2007 † Corked Bat § Comments & Opinion ‡ Comments (0)

Chicago Cubs in April:
A Reduction in Production

Take heart, Chicago Cub baseball fans. It seems it wasn’t only the Cubs who were struggling to clear the fences in April. Or scoring runs for that matter.
According to an AP story, the offensive deep freeze that plagued the Cubs throughout last month also was the scourge of major league baseball. Much like […]

Posted 03 May 2007 † Corked Bat § ‡ Comments (0)

Cardinals’ Josh Hancock
Killed in Car Accident

St. Louis Cardinals’ reliever Josh Hancock was killed in an early Sunday car accident.
No details of the accident are available at this time.
Hancock, 29, had been a key member of the St. Louis bullpen during last season’s World Series championship run. He joined the Cardinals in 2006, having previously pitched for Boston, Philadelphia and […]

Posted 29 April 2007 † Corked Bat § Chicago Cub Baseball News ‡ Comments (0)

Glove Some Cubs’ Nostalgia

I read where Rawlings, makers of fine baseball gloves everywhere, is sponsoring the “Summer of Glove,” a promotion honoring  the top defensive players of the last 50 years.
The event coincides with the 50th anniversary of Rawlings sponsorship of baseball’s annual Gold Glove awards.  The promotion began last week and will run to June 19th.
Voting is […]

Posted 11 April 2007 † Corked Bat § ‡ Comments (0)
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