https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs-history/?d=7News: Chicago Cubs Historyenhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs-history/chronicling-the-1918-cubs-part-10-world-series-world-war-conclude-r2577/Welcome to the tenth and final edition of North Side Baseball’s offseason series covering the 1918 Chicago Cubs. You can find the first nine parts here:   Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 La...2577Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:04:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs-history/chronicling-the-1918-cubs-part-7-the-national-league-pennant-world-series-plans-r2504/Welcome to part seven of North Side Baseball’s offseason series covering the 1918 Chicago Cubs. You can find the first six parts here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Last time, we left off with the World Series in question. The Cubs be...2504Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:08:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs-history/chronicling-the-1918-cubs-part-6-a-first-place-lead-world-war-i-r2481/Welcome to part six of North Side Baseball’s offseason series covering the 1918 Chicago Cubs. You can find the first five parts here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 In part six, we’ll examine how the Cubs performed in the month of July, including a wild, 21-inni...2481Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:52:03 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs-history/chronicling-the-1918-cubs-part-5-les-manns-remarkable-baseball-legacy-r2434/Welcome to part five of North Side Baseball’s offseason series covering the 1918 Chicago Cubs. You can find the first four parts here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Today, we’ll be taking a look at the life and career of Les Mann. Mann was an outfielder for the Cubs from t...2434Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:50:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs-history/the-top-10-cubs-free-agent-signings-of-all-time-part-1-r2420/  Fifty years ago, Major League Baseball was forced to adopt a rule change that would drastically change the sport forever. This wasn’t a traditional rule change like the universal DH, larger bases, pace of play initiatives or the shift ban. This was a change that would finally put more pow...2420Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:07:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs-history/my-imaginary-hall-of-fame-ballot-r2371/Since visiting the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, it's been a small hobby of mine to track the balloting, predicting who will get in, and seeing how accurate the predictions are. With the holidays upon us and activity slowing to a trickle, it seems a good time to tackle the thought exercise of bui...2371Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:48:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs-history/chronicling-the-1918-cubs-part-4-riding-a-hot-june-to-first-place-r2393/Welcome to part four of our offseason series covering the 1918 Chicago Cubs. Here are parts one through three so you can catch yourself up on everything covered to this point: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Start of the Season Part 3: Charlie Hollocher In part four, we’ll l...2393Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:59:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs-history/chronicling-the-1918-cubs-part-2-losing-an-ace-and-sweeping-the-giants-r2329/Welcome to part two of our offseason series covering the 1918 Chicago Cubs. In part one, we briefly recapped the 1917 season, examined the influence that World War 1 was potentially going to have on the 1918 season, and took a look at some of the big personnel changes the Cubs made. You can chec...2329Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:57:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs-history/remember-some-cubs-anthony-rizzo-the-hero-of-chicago-r2146/It was less than 12 months ago that Anthony Rizzo was taking World Series at-bats for the New York Yankees. Far removed from his prime years with the Chicago Cubs, the first baseman was still a key contributor for a team with championship aspirations. Fast-forward to today, and Rizzo has be...2146Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:10:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs-history/the-five-most-important-cubs-midseason-trades-since-2000-r2005/The trade deadline is a week away, and we are looking at the most promising Cubs team since… 2020?... 2019?... 2018? There were hints of competitiveness in 2023, and a slight increase was observed in 2024. Now, they look like a team that can make a deep playoff run, but the roster isn’t complete...2005Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:20:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs-history/chicago-cubs-players-project-update-a-trio-of-forgotten-2020-cameos-r1652/What is the Players Project? It's a community-driven, wiki-style project focusing on Cubs players of all stripes. It's open to all North Side Baseball users, and we've had contributions from current players, past players, and players who never even made the major leagues but played in the Cubs’...1652Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:07:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs-history/remember-some-cubs-ben-zobrist-the-quietest-most-important-cub-r1614/By the time third baseman Kris Bryant tossed the fateful final slow roller out to his friend Anthony Rizzo at first, I already knew that the Cubs had just done what some thought was impossible. In this or any other lifetime. Rewinding to the top of the 10th inning at Progressive Field against th...1614Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:23:01 +0000