Happy birthday to a great mustache

This one is 64 today. Will they still need him, will they still feed him, when he's 64?

Father's Day...

...is coming soon.

You know that Dad wants this hat. Order one for him today and he'll get in time for Father's Day.

Bonus Friday video

Leo Durocher on the Judy Garland Show. Judy is not a baseball fan.

Jeff Garlin

He's a comedian, a Cub fan, and a birthday boy. It's Jeff Garlin's 47th birthday.

Sandy Koufax versus the Cubs

If you'd like to hear audio play by play from this day in 1957, click here.

Sandy Koufax is pitching for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Dick Drott is pitching for the Cubs. Guess who won?

Actually, Koufax didn't have his A-game that day. Ernie Banks hit a 3-run home run off him in the 6th. On the other hand, he did win the game (7-5) and struck out 12.

The Crying Cub shirt

Sold a bunch of these last night. It really does help you recover from a loss like that monstrosity on Tuesday...

Get one and see for yourself.

Ken Holtzman No-Hitter

On this day in 1971, Ken Holtzman walked 4, struck out 6, and no-hit the Big Red Machine. In the lineup that day for the Reds: Hal McRae, Lee May, Johnny Bench, Tony Perez, George Foster, and Dave Concepion.

Holtzman also scored the only run of the game. He reached on a Tony Perez error in the third, and scored on a Glenn Beckert single.

Conan's first bit

I thought this was pretty funny. Note the baseball park he runs through...

This week in...

1929

The Cubs are in the midst of a pennant winning season.

*On the same day the Cubs survive a 10-9 Wrigley Field slugfest against the Giants thanks to homers by Hack Wilson (he hit two), Rogers Hornsby, Charlie Grimm, and catcher Earl Grace, George Eastman demonstrates the first technicolor movie (in Rochester New York)

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1969

The Cubs are in the midst of one of their most memorable seasons.

*The bottom of the Cubs order, Jim Hickman, Randy Hundley & Don Young, drive in all four runs to lead Bill Hands to victory over the Astros at Wrigley Field. A few hours later the final episode of Star Trek airs on NBC.


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1984

The Cubs are hoping to make the playoffs for the first time since World War 2.

*On the day that Ryne Sandberg is hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to break a 0-0 tie in the eighth inning versus the Cardinals, Cyndi Lauper's song "Time after Time" becomes the #1 song in the country.



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1989

The Boys of Zimmer are taking Chicago by storm.

*Rick Suttcliffe wins his seventh game of the season as the Cubs beat the Cardinals 5-2 despite Doug Dacenzo's unsuccessful attempted steal of home plate at nearly the exact moment that 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.

Jimmie Foxx

On this day in history the Cubs acquired the legendary Hall of Fame slugger Jimmie Foxx. Unfortunately for the Cubs it was 1942, not 1932. Oh what a difference a decade would have made.

His nickname was THE BEAST.