{"id":530874,"date":"2026-01-21T13:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/530874\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T13:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:27:15","slug":"chicago-cubs-history-unpacked-january-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/530874\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs history unpacked, January 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Happy Birthday to Mike Krukow*, farewell Hollywood Stars, and other stories\u00a0for the discerning reader.<\/p>\n

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

1953\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Baseball Writers Association of America<\/a>\u00a0passes over\u00a0Joe DiMaggio<\/a>\u00a0in his first year of eligibility and\u00a0elects<\/a>\u00a0pitcher\u00a0Dizzy Dean<\/a>\u00a0and outfielder\u00a0Al Simmons<\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0Hall of Fame<\/a>. Dean gathers 209 votes while Simmons\u2019 total of 199 is one more than needed. The colorful Dean had a .644 career winning percentage and won 120 games from\u00a01932<\/a>\u00a0through\u00a01936<\/a>, including 30 wins in\u00a01934<\/a>. Simmons, who drove in 100 runs in each of his first eleven major league seasons, was one of the most feared hitters of his time. Also joining DiMaggio, who finishes eighth in the voting, are in order\u00a0Bill Terry<\/a>,\u00a0Bill Dickey<\/a>,\u00a0Rabbit Maranville<\/a>,\u00a0Dazzy Vance<\/a>,\u00a0Ted Lyons<\/a>,\u00a0Charles Bender<\/a>\u00a0(ninth) and\u00a0Gabby Hartnett<\/a>\u00a0(tenth). All will eventually make it. DiMaggio\u2019s low total can be explained by the fact that there is no actual ballot, only write-in votes, and it is not clear whether DiMaggio is eligible since he played his last game only two years earlier. (1,2)<\/p>\n

Cubs Birthdays: Mike Krukow<\/a>*, Dave Smith<\/a>, Alan Benes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today in History:<\/p>\n

1522\u00a0\u2013 Head Inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens is elected pope.<\/p>\n

1793\u00a0\u2013 Louis XVI\u00a0of France is executed by guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for \u201chigh treason\u201d by the newly created French Parliament (Convention nationale), during the French Revolution.<\/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":530875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,1708,70377,138,24,4245,161,147,53,70378,43754,70379,6952,41642,47699,13254,4,1352,16131,43,137,46654],"class_list":["post-530874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-hall-of-fame","tag-carl-hubbell","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-dizzy-dean","tag-frankie-frisch","tag-hollywood-stars","tag-joe-dimaggio","tag-lefty-grove","tag-mickey-cochrane","tag-mike-krukow","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-giants","tag-pacific-coast-league","tag-padres","tag-san-diego","tag-tom-connolly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115933325147915840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530874","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=530874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}