On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past. Here’s a handy Cubs timeline, to help you follow the various narrative paths.
“Maybe I called it wrong, but it’s official.” — Tom Connolly, HoF Umpire.
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Today in baseball history:
1904 – Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants strikes out 16 Cardinals in a 3-1 Giants victory, which takes only one hour and 15 minutes. The 16 Ks was at that time a record. It has been surpassed since. (1,2)
2018 – MLB issues a ruling in the case of Cubs shortstop Addison Russell, who has been on administrative leave since September 21st following allegations of domestic violence. He is handed a 40-game suspension, retroactive to the start of his leave, with the remainder to be served at the start of the 2019 season. (2)
Cubs Birthdays: Bob Bowman, Dom Dallessandro, Jack Lamabe, Dennis Eckersley*, Matt Murton, Jen-Ho Tseng.
Today in History:
52 BC – Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwynedd, Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.
1605 – Sangley Rebellion: Overseas Chinese, known as the Sangley, rise up against Spanish authorities in Manila, Philippines. Spanish, local Japanese, and indigenous Tagalog forces massacre an estimated 20,000 ethnic Chinese.
1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
1913 – US Federal income tax signed into law (at 1%) by President Woodrow Wilson.
1990 – Reunification of East Germany and West Germany; West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate at the stroke of midnight.
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Things are as near to the truth as we can get them. Some of these items spread from site to site without being fact-checked, and that is why we ask for verifiable sources, so that we can help update the records and have documentation of why.