“The Hawk” has landed in Cooperstown. Andre Dawson, who endured 12 knee surgeries to forge an impressive 21-year major league career, was inducted Sunday into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, becoming just the 203rd player in the game’s long history to receive the honor.
Archive for July 26th, 2010
This game may have been the tipping point. If the Cubs had swept the weekend series with the St. Louis Cardinals, they may have considered themselves right back in the NL Central race.
Count Bobby Valentine among those who would like to manage the Chicago Cubs. The ESPN analyst and former New York Mets and Texas Rangers manager says he’s interested in taking over for the retiring Lou Piniella after this season.
Several Cubs could be gone
Jul 26
If history is any judge, Ted Lilly figures to be traded by the Cubs soon.
Five years ago on the Sunday night of Ryne Sandberg’s induction ceremony, Andre Dawson felt an emptiness in his stomach.
Carlos Zambrano will likely make one more appearance with Triple-A Iowa before rejoining the Chicago Cubs next weekend.
They say they believe. And why not, what with a chance to get within 8½ games of first place
with a victory Sunday night. The Cardinals avoided a Cubs series sweep, however, turning back the
North Siders 4-3 on Felipe Lopez’s two-out home run in the 11th inning
against reliever Brian Schlitter.
The market for Cubs left-hander Ted Lilly just got a lot hotter with Sunday’s trade of Diamondbacks pitcher Dan Haren to the Angels.
ESPN analyst Bobby Valentine showed up to Wrigley Field on Sunday so sharp in his suit and tie that he appeared to be headed to a job interview.
The game Andre Dawson loved most returned the love Sunday on its
grandest stage, proving the message the former Cubs great repeated to
fans in front of him and the game’s greatest living members seated
behind him. ”I didn’t play this game with this in mind,” Dawson said as he became
the 203rd player to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.