Christmas Shopping Season

Christmas shopping season is officially upon us, so once again we'd like to offer a few products for the Cubs fan on your Christmas list. We just went through our inventory, so please pay attention to the sizes and choices still available.

Allow about seven to ten days for delivery. If it's a rush order, e-mail me at rick@justonebadcentury.com, and I'll see what I can do.





This classic teardrop Cub shirt has been a big hit. It says so much without saying a word.

It's available in M, L, XL, and XXL.

Order yours here.








We're starting to see some of these at Cubs games now. It's one of those things that looks like the real thing, and leads to a double take. Ah, yes. I feel your pain too.

It's adjustable (fits everyone).

You can get yours here.







For the Cubs optimist, the Losing is Soooo Last Century t-shirt, is a popular choice. Look at how happy this young lady is wearing hers.

It's available in L and XL.

Order yours here.












And for the Cubs fan at the end of his rope, this one says it all.

It's available in M, L, and XL.

You can get yours here.











We also have a few old classic 1908 Cubs baseball cards available here.







Happy Holidays everyone!

Celebrity Cub Fan Archive

Thanksgiving week's "Celebrity Cub Fan" segment was the final installment. This feature won't be returning in 2010. It will be replaced by something I hope you'll find amusing. (It will be a visual feature).

But, the Celebrity Cub fan feature was popular, and it's not really archived on the site, so here is the list of the Celebrity Cub fans we featured this year (in alphabetical order). I think you'll agree, it's quite an eclectic list. Click on their names to read their stories of Cubs love...

Jonathon Alter
J. Ogden Armour
Bill Ayers
John & Jim Belushi
Rod Blagojevich
Tom Bosely
Joe E. Brown
Jimmy Buffett
Kurt Busch
Hillary Clinton
Billy Corgan
John Cusack
David Diaz
John Dillinger
Tom Dreesen
Dennis Farina
Dennis Franz
Jeff Garlin
Cardinal Francis George
Steve Goodman
Bryant Gumbel
George Halas
Ernest Hemingway
Bonnie Hunt
Walter Jacobson
Ray Kroc
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Joe Mantegna
The Marx Brothers
Bill Murray
Bob Newhart
William Petersen
Jeremy Piven
Ronald Reagan
Mike Royko
Jack Ruby
Donald Rumsfeld
Pat Sajak
Scott Simon
Gary Sinise
Justice John Paul Stevens
Scott Turow
Vince Vaughn
Eddie Vedder
Bill Veeck
George Will

There were several others we never got around to featuring including Tom Arnold, Dick Cheney, Dennis Hastert, George Ryan, Ray Meyer, Bugs Moran, Phil Donahue, Albert Lasker, Eddie Olczyk, Bill Zehme, and no I'm not kidding...Jerry Lewis. Knowing me, I'm sure their stories will turn up on one of my sites someday.

Cubs through history by decade

Thanksgiving week's Cubs through History was the final installment. Since the segment isn't really archived on the site, I thought I would put it together for you here.

If you'd like to read about Chicago history, and then find out what was going on with the Cubs at the same time, here they are broken down by decade...


1880s
The Haymarket Riot

1890s
The Columbian Exposition

1900s
The Everleigh Club
Essanay Studios

1910s
The 1912 Bull Moose Convention
World War I
The Influenza Pandemic
Prohibition begins

1920s
Warren G. Harding is nominated in Chicago
The Building of the Tribune Tower
Leopold & Loeb
Dion O'Banion, Hymie Weiss & the Holy Name Cathedral
The Dempsey-Tunney fight at Soldier Field
The Green Mill
Amos & Andy
The St. Valentines Day Massacre

1930s
Jake Lingle
The 1932 Democratic National Convention
Anton Cermak and FDR
The Pump Room
Chez Paree
Jesse Owens in Chicago
The Hindenberg Explodes

1940s
Orchard Field is renamed O'Hare Airport

1950s
The 1952 Republican and Democratic National Conventions
Weber Grills are invented in suburban Chicago
Emmitt Till and the Civil Rights movement
Wally Phillips arrives in Chicago
Elvis in Chicago

1960s
The Kennedy Expressway opens
The Playboy Mansion & Clubs
Beatlemania in Chicago
The Rolling Stones in Chicago
The John Hancock Center is built

1970s
The New York City Blackout
Jane Byrne elected Mayor
Pope John Paul II visits Chicago

1980s
Spider Dan climbs the Hancock and the Sears Tower
Risky Business is filmed in Chicago
Geraldo opens Al Capone's vault
Ferris Buehler's Day Off is filmed in Chicago

1990s
The Chicago Flood
The Fugitive is filmed in Chicago
The Heatwave of 1995
Princess Diana in Chicago

November Birthdays

23 great stories about November birthday boys...

Larry French (Nov 1)

Johnny Vander Meer (Nov 2)

Cub Fan Warren G. Harding (Nov 2)

Great Mustache Dwight Smith (Nov 8)

Cubs curser--Martin Luther (Nov 10)

Great Mustache Mike Vail (Nov 10)

Cub Fan J. Ogden Armour (Nov 11)

Rabbit Maranville (Nov 11)

Sammy Sosa (Nov 12)

Cub Fan Joe Mantegna (Nov 13)

Great Mustache Willie Hernandez (Nov 14)

Bunions Zeider (Nov 16)

Gene Mauch (Nov 18)

Dickie Noles (Nov 19)

Billy Sunday (Nov 19)

Rick Monday (Nov 20)

Cub Fan Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (Nov 20)

Dick Bartell (Nov 22)

Cub Killers Joe DiMaggio (Nov 25) and Stan Musial (Nov 21)

The Gravedigger; Richie Hebner (Nov 26)

Johnny "Bear Tracks" Schmitz (Nov 27)

Howard HoJo Johnson (Nov 29)

Meet the Ricketts

OK, I officially love these guys. The honeymoon is underway.

 

October birthdays

Cub Fan Tom Bosely (Oct 1)

Great Mustache Hector Villanueva (Oct 2)

Dim Dom Dallessandro (Oct 3)

Great Mustache Dennis Eckersley (Oct 3)

Cub Fan Ray Kroc (Oct 5)

Great Mustache Jay Baller (Oct 6)

Cub Fan Jonathon Alter (Oct 6)

The Hoosier Hammerer, Chuck Klein (Oct 7)

All-Time Fav, Jose Cardenal (Oct 7)

Catfish Metkovich (Oct 8)

Peppy Pepitone (Oct 9)

Reindeer Killefer (Oct 10)

The Mad Russian Novikoff (Oct 12)

Pickles Dillhoefer (Oct 13)

Rube Waddell (Oct 13)

Oom Paul Derringer (Oct 17)

Jigger Statz (Oct 20)

Horrible GM: Wid Matthews (Oct 20)

General Lee (Oct 21)

Jimmy "The Beast" Foxx (Oct 22)

Cub Fans Groucho (Oct 2) and Gummo Marx (Oct 23)

Great Mustache Rafael Palmeiro (Oct 24)

Record setting pitcher Jim Brosnan (Oct 24)

The Flying Scott; Bobby Thomson (Oct 25)

Russ "Mad Monk" Meyer (Oct 25)

Great Mustache Steve Ontiveros (Oct 26)

Cub Fan Hillary Clinton (Oct 26)

Cub Fan Pat Sajak (Oct 26)

Hall of Fame bust Ralph Kiner (Oct 27)

Circus Solly Hofman (Oct 28)

Kettle Wirts (Oct 30)

The Crime Dog; Fred McGriff (Oct 31)

and finally...

Cub Fan Ronnie Woo Woo Wickers (Oct 31)

Cubtober 15th

Chicago Cubs fans have had better Octobers than October 2009. Here is an example of a year they were still following the team in October, and why.

On this date in 2003, the Cubs and Marlins faced off in Game 7 of the NLCS at Wrigley Field. The Cubs had their ace Kerry Wood on the mound. They even took a lead on Wood's home run, but everyone in the stands (I was there) knew that it wasn't meant to be that night. We could just feel it wasn't going to happen.

When Dusty Baker told Dave Veres (who had a horrible year) to warm up in the bullpen (with the game still close and unused starter Matt Clement available), one person even got up and left, saying "If you're not gonna try, I'm not gonna try."

That person was me.