Ernie Banks – Dutch Baseball Hangout

December 21, 2019December 21, 2019

Today in baseball: Cubs install college of coaches

Today, fifty-nine years ago, the Chicago Cubs announced the club would not have one coach for the upcoming season. Instead, the team would have eight of which each would serve as a head coach during a part of the season. This college of coaches was installed after another disappointing season in which the Cubs finished …

Continue reading "Today in baseball: Cubs install college of coaches"

October 16, 2018

Baseball related songs: “A Dying Cubs Fan’s Request by Steve Goodman

In this episode of Baseball related songs, we pay attention to Steve Goodman once again. And once again the Cubs are in the center of the attention. After "Go Cubs Go", "A Cubs Dying Cubs Fan's Request" links Goodman to the Cubs forever. This song is played around the North Side of Chicago at the …

Continue reading "Baseball related songs: “A Dying Cubs Fan’s Request by Steve Goodman"

March 9, 2018

Baseball related songs: “All the Way” by Eddie Vedder

In this episode of Baseball related songs, we pay attention to "All the Way" by Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder. The song is a tribute to the Chicago Cubs and was performed by Vedder about a year before he recorded the song. After the Cubs won back-to-back World Series in 1907 and 1908, it …

Continue reading "Baseball related songs: “All the Way” by Eddie Vedder"

January 24, 2015January 24, 2015

Mr. Cub passes away at 83

Unless you have been living underneath a rock the past 24 hours, you must have heard or read that Earnie Banks has passed away at the age of 83 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Earnie Banks carried the nickname Mr. Cub, for he spent all of his career with the Cubs. Not a rare …

Continue reading "Mr. Cub passes away at 83"