Teams & Topics: Baseball
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The Chicago Salmon Bring 1800s Baseball To 2013
Gentlemen don’t play baseball with gloves. And they certainly don’t curse, kick dirt or tell fans to “shut ur mouths.” But should a gentleman on the field get out of line, the only way to remove him is by tugging …
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Don’t Wait For The Gay Jackie Robinson
Four NFL players are considering coming out as gay, and the Jackie Robinson biopic is coming out this week. Our Jonathan Eig, a Jackie biographer, brings it all together.
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Your Chicago Cubs & White Sox First-Look 2013 Season MVPs
Two teams. Two very different outlooks for 2013. But each has a player who, for this writer, stand out as the key to success—which is a somewhat relative term, especially on the North Side—in 2013.
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101 Reasons Why Chicago Is America’s Best Baseball Town
From Spalding’s gloves to Veeck’s scoreboards, the game of baseball is at home in Chicago.
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White Pants And Leather Belts: My First Look At Big League Baseball
What’s it like in “The Show?” Thanks to his Spring Training stint with the Diamondbacks, this Northwestern grad is getting his first taste.
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Pete Rose Stripped Of All-Time Hits Record… By Topps Baseball Cards
Rose, who was declared permanently ineligible from baseball for allegedly betting on games, has had his name wiped from the back of this year’s Topps MLB cards.
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Steve 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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An Artistic Rendering of a Cubs Fan’s Wet Dream
Ahead of this weekend’s Cub Convention, we bring you an exclusive artistic rendering that will make Cubs fans salivate, and Sox fans puke.
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The Mayor Of Wrigley Field And The Mysterious Disappearance Of 1952
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ira Berkow shares a baseball story from his Chicago youth, and how his decades-long burden was relieved thanks to a chance encounter.
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What Carl Yastrzemski Taught Me About America
In ’81, Yastrzemski was nearing the tail end of a storied career, while Samaroz was finishing a fairly unremarkable year of grade school and also starting another one: baseball fan.
