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On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,\u00a0Bleed Cubbie Blue<\/a>\u00a0is pleased to present a light-hearted,\u00a0Cubs<\/a>-centric look at baseball\u2019s colorful past.\u00a0Here\u2019s a handy Cubs timeline<\/a>, to help you follow the various narrative paths.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe I called it wrong, but it\u2019s official.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Tom Connolly<\/a>, HoF Umpire.<\/p>\n

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Today in baseball history:<\/p>\n

1904\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Christy Mathewson<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0New York Giants<\/a>\u00a0strikes out 16\u00a0Cardinals<\/a>\u00a0in 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)<\/p>\n

2018 \u2013 MLB<\/a>\u00a0issues a ruling in the case of\u00a0Cubs<\/a>\u00a0shortstop Addison Russell<\/a>, who has been on administrative leave since\u00a0September 21st<\/a>\u00a0following allegations of domestic violence. He is handed a 40-game\u00a0suspension<\/a>, retroactive to the start of his leave, with the remainder to be served at the start of the\u00a02019<\/a>\u00a0season. (2)<\/p>\n

Cubs Birthdays: Bob Bowman<\/a>, Dom Dallessandro<\/a>, Jack Lamabe<\/a>, Dennis Eckersley<\/a>*, Matt Murton<\/a>, Jen-Ho Tseng<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today in History:<\/p>\n

52 BC\u00a0\u2013 Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under\u00a0Julius Caesar<\/a>, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.<\/p>\n

1283\u00a0\u2013 Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwynedd, Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.<\/p>\n

1605\u00a0\u2013 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.<\/p>\n

1849\u00a0\u2013 American author\u00a0Edgar Allan Poe\u00a0is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.<\/p>\n

1913\u00a0\u2013 US Federal income tax signed into law (at 1%) by President\u00a0Woodrow Wilson.<\/p>\n

1990\u00a0\u2013 Reunification of East Germany and West Germany; West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate at the stroke of midnight.<\/p>\n

Common sources:<\/p>\n

*pictured.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0verifiable\u00a0sources, so that we can help update the records and have documentation of why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,\u00a0Bleed Cubbie Blue\u00a0is pleased to present a light-hearted,\u00a0Cubs-centric look at baseball\u2019s colorful past.\u00a0Here\u2019s a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[51659,5,160,50,7328,161,53,39,51694,505,1352,10,51693,673,46656,46654],"class_list":{"0":"post-359178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-addison-russell","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-cardinals","11":"tag-cincinnati-reds","12":"tag-cleveland-indians","13":"tag-cubs","14":"tag-detroit-tigers","15":"tag-dodgers","16":"tag-matt-murton","17":"tag-national-league","18":"tag-new-york-giants","19":"tag-pirates","20":"tag-players-league","21":"tag-st-louis","22":"tag-today-in-baseball-history","23":"tag-tom-connolly"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115310116419155236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}