This cache honors my favorite team, the Chicago Cubs. As a boy
growing up in Evansville, Indiana, I became a Cubs fan in 1979 when
cable television came to our household. With cable TV came Chicago
"superstation" WGN, broadcasting daytime baseball from the friendly
confines of Wrigley Field. (Imagine, had I discovered first the
other superstation, Atlanta's WTBS, you might know me as
BravesChris instead.)
The late
Jack
Brickhouse was the play-by-play announcer in those days, and
one of my earliest sports memories is his signature call of
"Hey-Hey" when a Cubs player hit a home run. I remember one game in
particular where an unheralded Cub--I think it might have been
catcher
Barry
Foote--hit a game-winning homer in the bottom of the ninth
inning. I had never seen anything like that, a team going from
losing to winning with one swing of the bat. I was hooked. Never
mind that the Cubs' losses would outnumber the wins for many years
to come.
Your first step to solving this puzzle will be to identify nine
of the all-time greatest Cubs players from their baseball cards
below. You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.
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