As any baseball fan, Chicagoan, or news junkie knows, today is the 100th anniversary of the first baseball game played at venerable Wrigley Field. And although the Chicago Cubs plan an elaborate ceremony to mark this momentous event before today’s game against their age-old rival Arizona Diamondbacks—whose home state was barely into its Terrible Twos when “Play ball!” first echoed through Wrigley—we should keep in mind that this is not fully a Cubs moment.
April 23, 1914, at Wrigley Field—then known as Weeghman Park, after its builder and Chicago Federals owner, Charles Weeghman—marked Opening Day for the Chicago Federals of the upstart ...
Fourth in a series of short player profiles spotlighting the peculiar and the noteworthy
With Ryne Sandberg's recent hiring as interim manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, one achievement of his Hall of Fame career bears a closer look. Apart from his 1984 National League MVP, a home run title, two monster performances in the Chicago Cubs' only postseason appearances since 1945 and stellar defensive play that culminated in nine Gold Gloves and the highest career fielding percentage ever by a second baseman, Sandberg's 19 triples (tied with Juan Samuel) led the Majors in 1984, far outpacing such speedsters as Willie Wilson, ...
