I’m back and so are the Cubs
July 29th, 2008 at 10:49am Wally Haas
I’ve been on vacation and during my time off the Cubs were 3-7. I got back Sunday and the Cubs have won two straight. Coincidence? Surely, but I’m glad I was spared the agony of that stretch.
I’m still trying to figure out who’s on the DL, who’s on the active roster, who’s hot and who’s not.
I wonder if Kerry Wood will set a record for most time on the DL by a guy with a blister. Anyone out there ever hear of a pitcher missing this much time with a blister? Given that the Cubs have been rather tight lipped and some would say misleading about past injuries to Wood and Mark Prior, you have to wonder if it really is a blister problem.
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1. Leonardo duh Vinci | July 30th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Sorry if I get off the subjec, but since Wally has a hand in getting out the STAR, I am wondering why the STAR continually disregards Rockford’s early contribution to our pastime; baseball. A little bit northwest of downtown Rockford, Fairgrounds Park, has the disinction of having two members of the Baseball Hall of Fame do their stuff at that baseball field. The two are Albert Spalding and Adrian “Cap” Anson.. And both became members of the Chicago Cubs. A memorable thing about Spalding is that he was born in Byron, at the intersection where the Civil War monument is today, and that he founded the Spalding Sporting Goods Company.
Now as to Cap, he played in the first pro baseball league as a member of the Rockford Forest City’s. and went on to be a grouchy manager of the Cubs. Also he is credited (?) as the man who kept blacks out of the major leagues.
I got a couple old pics that show Al and Cap.
I might add that Al’s first cousin, Edward, won the Congressional Medal of Honor. So the Spaldings have a Hall of Famer and winner of the CMH
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