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Friday is Sights & Sounds day at JOBC. This week we`ve got the sight of Grover Cleveland Alexander pitching in the World Series, and the sounds of the 1938 Cubs-Yankees World Series. (If you missed Monday`s This Week in 1945, you missed Anne Frank, Patton, Tito, Carousel, Mickey Dolenz, Antonin Scalia, and Cubs outfielder Dim Dom Dellasandro. Tuesday`s Great Nickname was Tiger. No, not that Tiger. Wednesday`s Tale from a Bad Century was about the Cubs purchasing a cooked goose. Thursdaywe pondered If only Steve Garvey went fishing with his buddies Hooper, Brody and Quint. ) On the JOBC blog: Johnny Callison, Pete Gray, Milton Bradley calls out Lou, 1910/1935, Andre`s blank check (spring training 1987), Spring training 1946, another great mustache, and spring training 1955.  There will be something new on the JOBC blog every weekday this season. Plus, as always, you can check out how the Cubs won the World Series.  It happens for real here.  How long ago was that exactly? The count up clock is above this on the left. And a word from our sponsors...Get your season and individual Chicago Cubs tickets today. Check out a game from the premiere Wrigley Rooftop with tickets from Skybox on Sheffied.

 
  
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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Spring Training 1946


The boys were home from war, the Cubs were defending NL champs, and everything looked rosy in Spring Training 1946.

Watch the Cubs in action here.

That`s the last time you`ll ever see them as defending National League champs.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Another great mustache

This great Cubs mustache is 60 years old today.

Read all about Doug Bird here.
 
 
 
 
 
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Spring Training 1955

Listen to how young and green Ernie Banks is in this interview.

It was conducted during spring training in 1955. The interviewer is Cubs radio announcer Bert Wilson. Ernie is about to enter his second full season in the big leagues.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Baseball Writing Workshop

 Attention aspiring baseball writers!

My friend Don Evans (editor of the book "Cubbie Blues") is teaching a baseball writing workshop at Loyola`s Continuum. They need at least three more students to sign up. Don`t miss out on this opportunity. Don is a great writer and editor. I highly recommend this class.

Baseball Literature

The Bird Cage, the Book Shelf, and Everything in Between

Donald G. Evans, MFA   Six Thursdays, March 18-April 29

(no class April 1)   6:30 pm - 8:30 pm   Water Tower Campus

Tuition: $275

In this course, students will critique a range of sports writing, including works by Ring Lardner, James T. Farrell, August Wilson, and Nancy Willard. Students will also examine technique and process to create their own pieces.
 Register today.  Visit www.LUC.edu/continuum
 

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Spring Training 1939

The Cubs are in Mesa Arizona right now, conducting Spring Training, but from the 1920s until the 1940s they had spring training at the island owned by Cubs owner William (and then his son P.K.) Wrigley.

Watch this video to see the defending NL champion Cubs in the spring of 1939.

(Photo: The Cubbies arrive on the steamer! From left to right: Hall of Fame Catcher Gabby Hartnett, W.L. White (mayor of Avalon), E.R. Pollok (city manager), and Dizzy Dean)

Another great mustache

This great Cubs mustache is celebrating his 60th birthday today.

Read all about Pete Broberg here.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Harry`s birthday

Sometimes it seems like he`s still around, but if he were, he would be 96 years old today.

How about a little audio of Harry Caray singing Happy Birthday to himself?

It`s only fitting.
 
 
 
 
 
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You know the old adage, `those who don`t know history are doomed to repeat it?`"

The sad truth about many Chicago Cubs fans is that we don`t know it as well as we should. We follow them closely, we remember the personal torment, but we aren`t really sure why we`ve gone a hundred years without a World Series championship.

The Just One Bad Century staff has spent the last year researching Chicago Cubs history, and we`ll share with you what we`ve discovered, so that we can all collectively avoid the doom.

The other thing we`re trying to do is to eliminate bad karma. The Red Sox knew their bad karma was caused by trading Babe Ruth, and the White Sox knew theirs was caused by cheating in the World Series. But what about the Cubs? Where does our bad karma come from?

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JOBC also recommends...
 

A League of her own
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Cubs.com
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Inside the Ivy
Ivy Chat
Len & Bob's baseball blog
Major League Models
North Side Baseball
The Baseball Zealot
Thunder Matt's Saloon
View from the Bleachers

Great Cubs books...

"Cubbie Blues"
"Cubs Journal"
"For Love of Ivy"
"Good Money After Bad"
"Lost in the Ivy"
"Wrigley Field, the Unauthorized Biography"
"Wrigleyville"

Sportswriter and hopeless baseball junkie Mike Cameron has written "Public Bonehead, Private Hero: The Real Legacy of Baseball's Fred Merkle."

The book has just been released and is available for order only from: www.sportingchancepress.com

This is the inspirational story of Fred Merkle, 19-year-old rookie with the New York Giants in 1908, who became the No. 1 scapegoat in the history of sports but stood up to unimaginable abuse his entire life with strength and dignity.

We also recommend Anything by George Castle

Rick Kaempfer's other blogs/websites:

"Rick Kaempfer"
"Father Knows Nothing"
"Chicago Radio Spotlight"