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* Alfonso Soriano, a current Major League Baseball outfielder playing for the Chicago Cubs
Playing to the pitcher's desire to return to his Midwestern roots and challenging Spalding's integrity, Hulbert convinced Spalding to sign a contract to play for the White Stockings ( now known as the Chicago Cubs ) in 1876.
With a large number of people relocating to the state from the Midwest and the Northeast, as well as from California, many teams ( most notably the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers ) have normally had large followings in Arizona.
The most recent player credited with a " straight " steal of home was Pete Kozma of the St. Louis Cardinals who stole home against the Chicago Cubs on September 21, 2012.
Today known as the Chicago Cubs, they are the oldest team in American organized sports.
On September 23, 1908, the New York Giants and Chicago Cubs played a game in the Polo Grounds.
Although he would go on to have back-to-back 17-win seasons for the Chicago Cubs in 1971 and 1972, including a no-hitter in the latter season, this did not help the Reds, who ended up losing the 1970 World Series to Robinson and the Orioles.
He entered into an agreement to buy the club, but the American League vetoed the sale, preferring to keep an American League team in Chicago to compete with the crosstown Cubs.
For Hurricane Ike in 2008, Selig mandated that the Astros play two home games against the Chicago Cubs in his hometown of Milwaukee despite proximity to the visiting Cubs.
The game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals in particular was cited for putting Ryne Sandberg ( as well as the 1984 Cubs in general, who would go on to make their first postseason appearance since 1945 ) " on the map.
The White Sox are one of two major league clubs based in Chicago, the other being the Chicago Cubs of the National League.
The club was originally called the Chicago White Stockings, after the nickname abandoned by the Cubs, and the name was soon shortened to Chicago White Sox, believed to have been because the paper would shorten it to Sox in the headlines.
Comiskey moved his St. Paul club to the Near South Side and renamed it the White Stockings, grabbing a nickname that had once been used by the Chicago Cubs.
The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.
The Cubs are one of the two remaining charter members of the National League ( the other being the Atlanta Braves ) and one of two active major league clubs based in Chicago, the other being the Chicago White Sox of the American League.
Because the Cubs lost two seasons to the Great Chicago Fire, the Braves have played more seasons, although the Cubs hold the record for oldest team still in its original city.
They then won back to back World Series titles in 1907 – 08 In 1902, Spalding, who by this time had revamped the roster to boast what would soon be one of the best teams of the early century, sold the club to Jim Hart, and the franchise became known as the Chicago Cubs.
The Wrigley family sold the team to the Chicago Tribune in 1981, ending a 65-year family relationship with the Cubs.

Chicago and retired
During 1977, at age 65, Friedman retired from the University of Chicago after teaching there for 30 years.
He was a visiting associate professor at Columbia University and an associate professor at the University of Chicago in 1954-55 before moving to the California Institute of Technology, where he taught from 1955 until he retired in 1993.
Famous athletes include Baseball Hall of Fame members Roger Bresnahan and Addie Joss, U. S. boxing Olympian Devin Vargas, 2012 Olympic silver medalist Erik Kynard ( Track & Field, high jump ), professional basketball player John Amaechi, retired NBA player Jim Jackson, and NBA Champions Chicago Bulls Dennis Hopson.
Langford retired from WMAQ in 2000 after that station converted to sports radio station WSCR and became the director of media affairs for the Chicago Fire Department.
The Flyers traded Michal Handzus to Chicago, lost Kim Johnsson to free agency and Eric Desjardins and team captain Keith Primeau retired in the off-season.
Bobby's # 9 was retired by the Chicago Black Hawks and Winnipeg Jets ( now Phoenix Coyotes ) and Brett's # 16 was retired by the St. Louis Blues.
The current Mayor of Bull Shoals is Bruce Powell, a retired Chicago police officer.
* Dusty Baker-Cincinnati Reds Manager, former San Francisco Giants and Chicago Cubs manager ; retired Major League Baseball player, primarily with the Atlanta Braves and the Los Angeles Dodgers
* Dan Jiggetts, retired American football offensive lineman for the Chicago Bears
* Norm Van Lier-A retired NBA Player and All-Star Guard with the Cincinnati Royals, Chicago Bulls, and Milwaukee Bucks.
* Gary Varsho, retired professional baseball player for the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, and Philadelphia Phillies
* Brian Scalabrine, retired basketball player, formerly of the NBA's Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls
Correll died in a Chicago hospital following a heart attack ; at the time of his death he was retired and living in Beverly Hills, California, just a few blocks away from his radio partner, Freeman Gosden.
While walking down the street in Chicago, Joseph Schwartz, a retired tailor, is the unwitting victim of a nearby nuclear laboratory accident, by means of which he is instantaneously transported tens of thousands of years into the future ( 50, 000 years, by one character's estimate, a figure later retconned by future Asimov works as a " mistake ").
O ' Hara remained retired from acting until 1991, when she starred in the film Only the Lonely, playing Rose Muldoon, the domineering mother of a Chicago cop played by John Candy.
After a career as a real estate and insurance executive in Chicago, he retired to a rest home where he died in Savage, Minnesota.
On May 18, 2012, Wood retired, striking out the only ( and therefore final ) batter he faced, Dayán Viciedo of the Chicago White Sox.
He became only the fourth Chicago Cub to have his number retired, following Ernie Banks (# 14 ), Billy Williams (# 26 ), and Ron Santo (# 10 ).
The American Hockey League's ( AHL ) Chicago Wolves also have a yearly award given in his honor, the Dan Snyder Man of the Year Award, and have honored his number 19 by hanging a banner with other retired and honored player numbers.
In 1982, his Chicago Cubs uniform Number 14 became the first to be retired by the Cubs.
Ryne Sandberg, of the Chicago Cubs, wore number 23, which was retired on August 28, 2005.
Horne retired from the concert stage in 1999 with a recital at the Chicago Symphony Center.

Chicago and numbers
The two stadiums are roughly equidistant for Cubs fans living in north-suburban Chicago ; hence, fans in this region take advantage of Miller Park's larger seating and parking capacity, more modern amenities, and the certainty that the game will not be weather-delayed ( due to Miller Park's roof ) to attend Cubs games in Milwaukee in large numbers, enhancing the rivalry's intensity.
The migration of many former slaves and their descendants to major urban centers like Memphis and north to New York City, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and Buffalo ( See: Second Great Migration ( African American )) meant that black and white residents were living in close proximity in larger numbers than ever before, and as a result heard each other's music and even began to emulate each other's fashions.
In addition to Chicago blues numbers, the Rolling Stones also covered songs by Chuck Berry and Bobby and Shirley Womack, with the latter's " It's All Over Now ", giving them their first UK number one in 1964.
The Chicago Manual of Style in 1993 ( 14th edition ) advises: " lackboard bold should be confined to the classroom " ( 13. 14 ) whereas in 2003 ( 15th edition ) it states that " pen-faced ( blackboard ) symbols are reserved for familiar systems of numbers " ( 14. 12 ).
The two Thompson submachine guns ( serial numbers 2347 and 7580 ) found in Fred Dane ’ s ( an alias for Fred Burke ) Michigan bungalow were personally driven to the Chicago coroner ’ s office by the Berrien County District Attorney.
Buoyed by the windfall, Luther announces his retirement and advises Hooker to seek out an old friend, Henry Gondorff, in Chicago, to teach him “ the big con .” Unfortunately, their victim was a numbers racket courier for vicious crime boss Doyle Lonnegan.
Abbott presented Chicago as a promised-land with abundant jobs, as he included advertisements " clearly aimed at southerners " that called for massive numbers of wanted workers in factory positions.
From the play-by-play descriptions, the uniforms, and the player numbers, this game has been identified as the June 5, 1985 game between the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs.
Used many times daily by CSX freight trains, it is also used by Amtrak's Cardinal passenger train, train numbers 50 and 51, which carries passengers from Chicago to New York City using this bridge.
In addition to Chicago blues numbers, the Rolling Stones also covered songs by Chuck Berry and Bobby and Shirley Womack, with the latter's " It's All Over Now ", giving them their first UK number one in 1964.
The Melrose sound dominated Chicago blues before World War II, but the arrival of large numbers of Southern African Americans in Chicago during and after the war brought Melrose's dominance to an end as a harder, deeper blues sound proved more popular with the new audience.
Conventions were held in cities such as San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City as early as 1977 or 1978 with large numbers of chubbies and chasers attending.
I think I can say without bragging that I made the " St. Louis Blues " popular in Chicago ; this was one of my feature numbers.
The stamps were interesting and attractive, designed to appeal to not only postage stamps collectors but to historians, artists and of course the general public who bought them in record numbers because of the fanfare of the Columbian Exposition of the World's Fair of 1892 in Chicago, Illinois.
While Tulsa as a USFL host city had a number of legitimate problems, fan turnout was surprisingly respectable, especially compared to the crippling attendance numbers seen by USFL teams in Chicago ( 7, 455 ), Washington ( 7, 694 ) and Los Angeles ( 15, 361 ).
Terry Nichols Clark ( University of Chicago ) has used Florida's own data-sets to question the correlation between the presence of significant numbers of gay men in a city and the presence of high-technology knowledge industries.
In Chicago, people still debate whether the medical examiner exaggerated the numbers and wonder if the crisis was a " media event.
The discrepancy in numbers can perhaps best be attributed to the fact that a great many people came to Chicago to see the World's Fair but, for one reason or another, never returned home.
On September 7, 2007, the Chicago Tribune disclosed the results of their own investigation into his land deals, including discrepancies on declared prices and numbers of transactions, centered in the Playa Coco resort area.
The recordings most prized by enthusiasts of the genre are usually by lesser-known artists, and were initially released only in limited numbers, often by small regional United States labels such as Ric-Tic and Golden Records ( Detroit ), Mirwood ( Los Angeles ) and Shout and Okeh ( New York / Chicago ).
For example, the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style states: " The letters in ordinal numbers should not appear as superscripts ( e. g., 122nd not 122 < sup > nd </ sup >).
A typical Lake Shore Limited features both Boston ( numbers 448 / 449 ) and New York ( numbers 48 / 49 ) sections, which run combined between Chicago and Albany.

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