{"id":557970,"date":"2026-02-06T15:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/557970\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:04:29","slug":"chicago-cubs-history-unpacked-february-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/557970\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs history unpacked, February 6"},"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, Dale Long*, who held a significant record while he was a Pirate, and other stories. 10,000 BCB points if you can identify that record.<\/p>\n

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

1958\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ted Williams<\/a>\u00a0signs with the\u00a0Red Sox<\/a>\u00a0for $135,000, making him the highest-paid player in major-league history at the time. (1,2)<\/p>\n

1995<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 US President\u00a0Bill Clinton<\/a>\u2018s deadline for a resolution to the\u00a0baseball strike<\/a>\u00a0passes without a resolution. On\u00a0January 26th<\/a>, Clinton had told the players and owners to resume bargaining and reach an agreement by today. The strike will continue for nearly two more months. (2)<\/p>\n

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Cubs Birthdays: Walt Huntzinger<\/a>,\u00a0Dale Long<\/a>*,\u00a0Smoky Burgess<\/a>,\u00a0Travis Wood<\/a>. Also notable:\u00a0Babe Ruth<\/a>\u00a0HOF.<\/p>\n

The Dale Long story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today in History:<\/p>\n

1508\u00a0\u2013 Maximilian I proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor, 1st Emperor in centuries not to be crowned by the Pope.<\/p>\n

1778\u00a0\u2013 Britain declares war on France. France recognizes USA, signs Treaty of Alliance in Paris, 1st US treaty.<\/p>\n

1867\u00a0\u2013 American financier and philanthropist George Peabody establishes the Peabody Education Fund to provide improvements to existing schools in poor areas of the southern USA.<\/p>\n

1951\u00a0\u2013 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into Argonne National Laboratory, a nuclear test site located 20 miles (32 km) west of Chicago.<\/p>\n

2020\u00a0\u2013 Date of the first COVID-19 related death in the US (confirmed by the CDC April 21).<\/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":557971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[1647,5,138,24,71699,4245,161,63731,4,89,46656,46654,57111,44202],"class_list":["post-557970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-babe-ruth","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicago-white-stockings","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-ford-frick","tag-mlb","tag-red-sox","tag-today-in-baseball-history","tag-tom-connolly","tag-travis-wood","tag-white-stockings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116024302930094902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557970","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=557970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}