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On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,\u00a0Bleed Cubbie Blue<\/a>\u00a0is pleased to present a\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

Ernie in the Hall, The Penguin comes to Chicago, Dexter Fowler* arrives,\u00a0and other stories\u00a0for the discerning reader. RIP Don Sutton.<\/p>\n

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

2016\u00a0\u2013 In settling a class action lawsuit filed by fans,\u00a0Major League Baseball<\/a>\u00a0announces changes to its policy regarding the streaming of live games over the internet on\u00a0MLB.TV<\/a>. Fans will now be able to buy a package that covers their favorite team and that allows them to circumvent local blackouts, while the cost of the league-wide full package will be reduced by 15 percent. However, the settlement does not cover certain regional networks not owned by DirecTV, MLB\u2019s principal broadcasting partner. The suit was filed because, while MLB.TV promised subscribers that they could watch all MLB games lives, local blackouts meant that in reality, fans who bought the package were often unable to follow the games of their local teams, a frustrating situation in markets where the local cable sports network is either not made available by every provider or is part of an expensive premium package. (2)<\/p>\n

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Cubs Birthdays: Ollie Hanson<\/a>,\u00a0Ken Frailing<\/a>,\u00a0Kevin Coffman<\/a>,\u00a0Anthony Young<\/a>,\u00a0Phil Nevin<\/a>,\u00a0Chris Stynes<\/a>,\u00a0Amaury Telemaco<\/a>,\u00a0Nick Burdi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today in History:<\/p>\n

1363\u00a0\u2013 English King\u00a0Edward III<\/a>\u00a0introduces his Sumptuary Laws, restricting what people ate and wore to preserve social status (largely ignored).<\/p>\n

1883\u00a0\u2013 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by\u00a0Thomas Edison<\/a>, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.<\/p>\n

1955\u00a0\u2013 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower held the first-ever televised presidential press conference.<\/p>\n

1977\u00a0\u2013 Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n

Common sources:<\/p>\n

*pictured.<\/p>\n

Some of these items spread from site to site without being fact-checked, and that is why we ask for verifiable sources, in order to help correct the record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,\u00a0Bleed Cubbie Blue\u00a0is pleased to present a\u00a0Cubs-centric look at baseball\u2019s colorful past.\u00a0Here\u2019s a handy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2399],"tags":[42,47,5,70013,1708,138,24,4245,161,29758,1011,20015,9456,402,57,6964,19,4,62,4503,10346,67,46656,46654],"class_list":{"0":"post-527571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-baseball-commissioner","12":"tag-baseball-hall-of-fame","13":"tag-chicago","14":"tag-chicago-cubs","15":"tag-chicagocubs","16":"tag-cubs","17":"tag-dan-straily","18":"tag-dexter-fowler","19":"tag-don-sutton","20":"tag-ernie-banks","21":"tag-kris-bryant","22":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","23":"tag-luis-valbuena","24":"tag-major-league-baseball","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-new-york-yankees","27":"tag-nick-burdi","28":"tag-shoeless-joe-jackson","29":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","30":"tag-today-in-baseball-history","31":"tag-tom-connolly"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115921917279084661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527571","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=527571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}