sports.espn.go.com - 26 days ago
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Cleveland Indians closer and ex-Cubs ace Kerry Wood didn't dismiss the notion that Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley and other African-American players may have experienced racial insensitivity during their time in Chicago. "I know just from the experience of playing with those guys, and I've seen ...
notqualifiedtocomment.com - 25 days ago
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notqualifiedtocomment.com —
Cubs fans are racist. We have heard it
time and again from many different sources, although all
of them have been African-American until now. In recent years Dusty Baker, Latroy Hawkins, Jacque Jones, and now Milton Bradley claimed to have received racist hate mail and racist taunts in the ...
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How Come No One Believes Racism Exists Until a White Guy ...
bizofbaseball.com - 23 days ago
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bizofbaseball.com —
Tom Ricketts, the new board chairman of the
Chicago Cubs. Marking a return to family ownership, the
Ricketts family today was formally introduced as the eighth ownership group in the 133-year history of the Chicago Cubs at a morning press conference at Wrigley Field. On ...
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Ricketts Family Formally Introduced as New Owners of ...
bleachernation.com - 26 days ago
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bleachernation.com —
During the Dusty Baker era, several Chicago Cubs
players - and Baker, himself - obliquely suggested they
were the victim of racist vitriol in Chicago. And it was not as if fans necessarily didn’t believe them - it only takes one idiot to write a letter - it was simply that, there was ...
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Kerry Wood Confirms Racist Mail Rumors
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Kerry Wood Confirms Racist Mail Rumors
Bleacher Nation | Chicago Cubs News, Rumors, and Commentary —
... Bradley accused fans of making racial taunts at Wrigley Field during the 2009 season, but he declined to give examples of specific incidents. ESPN Chicago. ...
Kerry Wood: black Cubs players got racist hate mail
Circling The Bases —
... that his difficulties in Chicago this season were due in part to racist fans and preschools and what have you. But while it may still be legitimate to scoff at the degree to which Bradley blames such nonsense for his performance on the field, it ...
Is Kerry Wood Now A Liar?
Another Cubs Blog —
... Finally, somebody stood up and talked about what was going on with the Cubs. ...
Kerry Wood Man's Up
Talking Chicago Baseball - A Cubs and White Sox MLB blog —
... I was done with the Milton Bradley and racism and Cubs fans issue, but it's news again thanks to former Cub Kerry Wood. Wood was on the Waddle and Silvy show the other day and told them that he witnessed racist hate mail that guys like LaTroy Hawkins, Dusty Baker, and Jacque Jones got from Cubs fans. ...
How Come No One Believes Racism Exists Until a White Guy Says It Does? [Cubs Fan Edition]
Not Qualified To Comment —
... made clear my belief that racism was going on, most Cubs fans scoffed at this and chose, perhaps out of ignorance or some sort of dormant racism, to not believe the words spoken by these black men. Even though the evidence was corroborated a few times over and really wasn’t all that hard to believe. When Dusty said it, he was just crazy. When LaTroy Hawkins said it, he was delusional. When Jacque said it, he was a crybaby. When Bradley said it, he was just angry. Now Kerry Wood, a Caucasian, is saying it: ...
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baseballthinkfactory.org 26 days ago — Cleveland Indians closer and ex-Cubs ace Kerry Wood didn’t dismiss the notion that Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley and other African-American players may have experienced racial insensitivity during their time in Chicago.
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Timeline: Cubs ownership
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Back to Work for the Cubs
chicagocubsonline.com 20 days ago — While the Phillies and Yankees continue to battle it out to see which team wears the ring (Yankees up three games to one), the Chicago Cubs will get to work on the 2010 campaign this week.
The Cubs' brass will hold their annual organization meetings in Mesa, the first with Tom Ricketts in ...
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In this list, I will ...
Payroll May Increase Slightly, But Might Not Include Any New Big Names
bleachernation.com 25 days ago — The Chicago Cubs sported a very healthy $140 million(ish) payroll in 2009 - good enough to top the Senior Circuit (with the New York Mets having about the same payroll). And it was worth every penny, right?
Fans no doubt expect that payroll will increase next year, and it is expected to do ...
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424tales.blogspot.com 25 days ago — I'm not sure, but I think Bruce Levine needs a dictionary to understand the meaning of "good news." He starts out his blog post on ESPNChicago.com with:
"The news is almost all good for Chicago Cubs fans with the team now in possession of new owner and chairman of the board Tom ...
Sale of Cubs, Wrigley complete —
Boston.com -- Baseball News 26 days ago
The $845 million sale of the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field and other assets from the Tribune Co. to the Ricketts family was completed Tuesday, more than 2 1/2 years after the baseball franchise was put on the market.
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