Fred Klein
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12:50 am | May. 2Why There Will Never Be Another Triple Crown Winner
Never is a long time, so the saying “never say never” probably is apt. Still, when applied to the Triple Crown series, it’s hard to avoid using the “n” word.
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8:20 am | Mar. 12White Sox Attendance Woes Extend To Spring Training
Folks in Sox black have been lonelier than usual in the Grand Canyon State this spring. What’s it all mean?
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12:01 am | Feb. 8The Cubs’ Last Hurrah At Hohokam Stadium
It’s the last hurrah in Mesa, Ariz., this spring for the Chicago Cubs at their training digs that have housed them for the last 16 years. Here’s to ya, Hoho.
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12:01 am | Jan. 21Steve Stone Settles In As The Smartest ‘Second Banana’ In Baseball
Steve Stone was feeling especially smart on a recent noon, visiting with ChicagoSide’s Fred Klein in Scottsdale, looking out into a sunny-and-60 January day.
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12:01 am | Oct. 30A Postcard From Arizona: Fall League Cubs, White Sox
The Arizona Fall League, which holds forth in the Valley of the Sun, is baseball’s—and Arizona’s—best-kept secret, and persists in that distinction even though it’s regularly advertised as such. That’s just how Fred Klein likes it
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12:01 am | Sep. 11Sox or Cubs: Who Says You Have to Choose?
Who says you can’t root for the Cubs and Sox? Fred Klein fell in love with the Cubs in 1945, and in the next decade it was the Sox. At least hear him out.
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12:01 am | Aug. 23Winning Isn’t Everything: Why The Sox (Still) Don’t Draw Big Crowds
The first place Sox couldn’t crack 30,000 once in a three game series with the first place Yankees. Fred Klein explains the decades-long journey to the lonely Cell.
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12:01 am | Aug. 6The Source Of The Bears’ QB Curse
Cade McKown, Mike Tomczak, Steve Fuller, Vince Evans, Mike Phipps, Bob Avellini, Gary Huff, Jack Concannon, Jim Miller, Kent Nix, Brian Griese, Jim Harbaugh, Greg Landry, Virgil Carter, Rusty Lisch, Kyle Orton, Rex Grossman…where do all these guys come from?
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12:01 am | May. 11How Soriano Can Save The Cubs
Instead of fading into oblivion like other over-paid ballplayers, Soriano has a special opportunity to not only drastically improve the chances of the Cubs franchise, but also to go down in history as one helluva mensch.
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8:28 am | Mar. 162012 Cubs: A Team With No Players
The Cubs, who have tried just about everything to escape their historic trophy drought, have hit upon a new tack. They are playing the 2012 season without players. Oh, sure, there are men running around in real Cubs uniforms, but like the vendors used to say, you can’t tell ‘em without a scorecard.
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10:02 pm | Feb. 28The Fighting Illini: Extremely Lousy & Incredibly Cursed
How bad have things gotten on the fields and courts of Champaign? Former Wall Street Journal sports columnist (and U of I alum) Fred Klein testifies.
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