While playing for the Philadelphia Athletics, Ehmke struck out 13 Chicago Cubs in game one, a Series record until 1953.

While in Chicago for a Suns game, Colangelo attended a Chicago Cubs baseball game at Wrigley Field.

While advertisers played up his habit of openly rooting for the Cubs from the booth ( for example, one Budweiser ad described him as " Cub Fan, Bud Man " in a Blues Brothers-style parody of " Soul Man "), he had been even less restrained about rooting for the Cardinals when he broadcast for them.

While playing for the Cubs, the Woods hosted a celebrity bowling tournament called Kerry Wood's Strike Zone, which also featured a silent auction that raised over two million dollars.

While they've always been known as the Cougars since moving to Kane County, they were affiliated with the Baltimore Orioles in 1991 and 1992, with the Florida Marlins from 1993 to 2002, the Oakland Athletics from 2003 until 2010, and with the Kansas City Royals for the 2011 and 2012 seasons before joining the Chicago Cubs for the 2013 season.

" While the Cubs did win the NL Central Division title in 2007 and 2008, they were swept in the first round of the playoffs in both years: by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2007 and the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2008.

While with the Cubs, Durocher encountered a difficult dilemma in regards to the Cubs aging superstar, Ernie Banks, whose injured knees made him a liability but whose legendary status made benching him impossible.

While the Cubs spotted him a first inning 4 – 0 lead, he was unable to hold it, giving up five earned runs in six innings, including three home runs in the top of the third inning.

While the Cubs were far out of contention for a playoff spot, Zambrano continued with a positive attitude.

While Veeck was growing up in Hinsdale, Illinois, his father, William Veeck, Sr., became president of the Chicago Cubs.

While growing up, Bill Veeck worked as a popcorn vendor for the Cubs.

While still a Chicago Cubs affiliate, the team renamed itself once again in 1997 and became the Orlando Rays.

While Midland currently is the AA affiliate of the Oakland A's, they were affiliated with the Chicago Cubs from 1972 – 1984, and then with the California Angels from 1985-1998.

While the Marlins denied any connection, shortly afterwards, on March 27, 2002, he was traded, along with Matt Clement, to the Chicago Cubs for Julian Tavarez, Ryan Jorgensen, Dontrelle Willis, and Jose Cueto.

While being interviewed by Len Kasper and Bob Brenly during a broadcast of a Chicago Cubs Baseball game on Sept. 8th, 2010, Sayers said he had originally intended to go to the University of Iowa.

While Barrett increased his batting average over the next few games, his career with the Cubs began to come to a close near the middle of June.

While playing for the Chicago Cubs, Barrett was involved in two incidents with Houston Astros pitcher Roy Oswalt during the 2004 season.

While pitching for the team's AAA affiliate Iowa Cubs during his comeback, Beck gained national attention for living in a mobile home behind the team's Sec Taylor Stadium ( now Principal Park ) in Des Moines.

While writing his 2012 novel " Calico Joe ," -- detailing a fictional young player on the Cubs in the early 1970s -- author John Grisham drew from Kessinger's memories.

While attending Bellarmine University, he was drafted by the Chicago Cubs and remains the only Chicago Cub to earn a save in his major league debut, earning it by striking out three batters in order against Milwaukee after 17 innings of play.

While the gum industry prospered, the Cubs grew less competitive over the decades.

While with the Cubs, he was on the mound when Mark McGwire hit his record-tying 61st home run.

While Trebelhorn's tenure as Cubs manager was short, it was memorable.

While Crosby distracted the Beardens, stewardesses Carnegey and Toni Besset dropped out of a rear door.

While moderately successful, the modification would cost about three times as much as originally thought, and the project was dropped due to lack of money.

While damage could be studied later, the energy yield of the untested Little Boy design could be determined only at the moment of detonation, using instruments dropped by parachute from a plane flying in formation with the one that dropped the bomb.

While bands such as Hawkwind maintained an explicitly psychedelic course into the 1970s, most dropped the psychedelic elements in favour of wider experimentation.

While a student at MIT ( he later dropped out due to financial constraints ) Lackey became interested in electronic cash and distributed systems, originally for massively multiplayer online gaming.

While some colleges dropped football entirely, a few, such as the University of California and Stanford University, replaced it with English rugby.

" While the public sector of the economy has fallen 2. 8 %, the private sector has dropped off an astounding 6 %.

While at AFIT, Chafee would continue to participate in astronaut candidate testing as the pool of candidates dropped to 271 in mid-1963.

While the 3-voice sound chip and DAC were still present, Tandy video was dropped.

While the server can run on Microsoft Windows, Linux or AIX, client support for any operating system other than Microsoft Windows is dropped.

While many urged him to run for the Senate seat held by Adlai Stevenson III ( even after Stevenson dropped out of the race ), Anderson had higher sights: the Republican presidential nomination.

While he initially sought annexation by the U. S., Houston dropped that goal during his first term.

While the bear market began in 2000, by July and August 2002, the index had only dropped to the same level it would have achieved if the 10 % annual growth rate followed during 1987-1995 had continued up to 2002.

While the native Italian American population has dropped rapidly since the 1980s, the neighborhood still retains an Italian character with many Italian restaurants, cafes, and bakeries that line Columbus Avenue and Washington Square.

While walking, Helen accidentally trips on a can of spray paint Madeline had earlier dropped, leaving her precariously teetering at the top of a staircase.

While Disney's stock dropped four percent after a screening for unenthusiastic investment analysts,

While on tour in early 2006, Reel Big Fish were dropped from the Jive Records label.

While EchoStar's lawsuit against Microsoft was in process, DirecTV ( presumptively acquired by EchoStar, and in control by EchoStar ) dropped UltimateTV ( thus ending Microsoft's satellite product initiatives ) and picked TiVo's DirecTV product as its only Digital Video Recorder offering.

While in 1991, 92 % of the Republic's population identified themselves as Roman Catholics, by 2006 this had dropped to 86 %.

" While Yorkshire used a scaled-back version of this branding ( still using the classic logo and being verbally known as " Channel 3 Yorkshire "), Tyne Tees was re-branded as " Channel 3 North East ", dropped the familiar TTTV logo, and relegated the Tyne Tees name to secondary branding.

While eating, the deities dropped some food on the ground, from which arose a beautiful maiden who asked their left-overs.

While GM dropped its sponsorship for the 2009 season due to financial issues, the GM branding was not removed from the fountain.

While stalling over Texas, the storm dropped excessive rainfall, peaking at just over 40 inches ( 1, 033 mm ) in northwestern Jefferson County.