"Go back to 1905, when a Cubs fan named Samuel Scott was arrested after catching a foul ball but refusing to hand it to an usher. The team president signed a larceny complaint against him. The charges were dropped with Scott threatened to sue for assault and false arrest. Eventually, Cubs owner Charles Weeghman allowed foul balls to be kept. In 1916. It was lauded in Baseball magazine as a "common-sense policy," even if other owners refused to go along with it."

30 baseball books in the 30 days of '11: Day 29 -- How to have a ball, with a ball, for less than the (auction house) price of a game-used ball
By Tom Hoffarth

The book: "The Baseball: Stunts, Scandals and Secrets Beneath the Stiches"

http://insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/archives/2011/04/30-baseball-boo-61.html

Woo hoo! Ron Santo has been voted into Baseball's Hall of Fame.

Sadly, one year and two days after he passed on.

I was thinking that if Ron Santo's ashes were still in an urn, they could bring that with to the Hall of Fame induction ceremony. I'm guessing thats not going to be possible. http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/cubs/pos...

I think this is pretty much the best Ron Santo audio/video files page. Check it out at: http://www.wgnradio.com/sports/baseball/...

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TV listings for Chicago Cubs Fans Offseason 2011-2012

Comcast Chicago Sports Chicago Cubs page
http://www.csnchicago.com/baseball-chica...

Chicago Baseball Hot Stove (LIVE)
5pm Tuesday, December 6, 2011
http://www.csnchicago.com/chicago_hot_stove
Also see:
http://sportsvideo.org/main/blog/2011/11...

Yard War: Baseball
Neighboring Cardinals and Cubs fans compete to design baseball-themed backyards with the help of expert contractors and MLB Network analysts Mitch Williams and Dan Plesac.
Wed 12/07 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM| MLB Network
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrf...

Aramis in "The Shredder"11/29/1105:27

Looking thru this list of Free agents for Spring 2012 I see a lot of former Chicago Cubs players.

http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/2004/06/free-agent-position-players.html

The one that caught my attention was Derrek Lee.
I was at the 14-3 game vs the Marlins where he hit two home runs for the Cubs. Oddly enough, a friend of mine caught one of those home run balls...Derrek Lee's 200th home run!

My photos of Derrek Lee from that game.
http://chicagocubsphotos.blogspot.com/2005/08/derrek-lee-stolen-base-home-run.html

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=250828116&prov=ap

Here is the box score for that game:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200508280.shtml

This month I watched three different movies with a Chicago Cubs theme. I'm rather surprised that WGN or Comcast...or even ESPN haven't aired these three movies. Hey, there's no pro basketball these days, may as well entertain ALL those Cubs fans out there...

If you're a serious Cubs fan, you'll want to watch all three of these movies.

Sports Medicine Said to Overuse M.R.I.’s
By GINA KOLATA
Published: October 28, 2011

Dr. James Andrews, a widely known sports medicine orthopedist in Gulf Breeze, Fla., wanted to test his suspicion that M.R.I.’s, the scans given to almost every injured athlete or casual exerciser, might be a bit misleading. So he scanned the shoulders of 31 perfectly healthy professional baseball pitchers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/health/mris-often-overused-often-mislead-doctors-warn.html?_r=1&ref=health

Try a search on Cubsnet for MRI. There are a lot of posts here with that keyword.
http://cubsnet.com/search/node/mri

Public funding and The Cell: Who Profits?
www.wgntv.com
For non-baseball fans, it may be a surprise to know taxpayers paid for and still own U.S. Cellular Field,the home of the Chicago White Sox .

http://www.wgntv.com/news/even​ingnews/wgntv-us-cellular-fiel​d-taxpayers-own-stadium-but-wh​o-gets-the-profits-20111026,0,​1483947.story

"The Illinois Sports Facilities Authority agreed with White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf that the agency should not share in any restaurant profits.

"We said to Jerry, 'Jerry can we have part of the profits?' and he said no," former Gov. Jim Thompson, who was the agency's board chairman when the deal was made, said in an interview. "We said, OK.'

"I've known Jerry for 52 years. He's tough.

Ron Santo Walk to Cure Diabetes to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

The 33rd annual Ron Santo Walk took place on Sunday, October 2, 2011 from the Busse Woods. JDRF is the worldwide leader in funding research to cure type 1 diabetes, providing nearly $107 million last year and more than $1.5 billion since its inception. This year was an especially important year for the Walk, as it's the first year without our friend and champion Ron Santo, who was a tireless advocate for JDRF throughout his life.

http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/deanrichards/wgnam-jdrf-ron-santo-walk-10022011,0,6332960.photogallery

This article series looked interesting...

MLB Baseball Park Tour 2010 - TBD

My wife, son and I have embarked on a journey to visit every MLB park in the country. My son was 7 when we started the tour in the summer of 2010. This is a list of my reviews from each park and some other interesting items from along the way.... If all goes well, the Tour should be complete in 2013 or 2014!

http://www.yelp.com/list/mlb-baseball-park-tour-2010---tbd-chicago

TV listings for Cubs Fans... September / October 2011

Keep checking this thread for updates.
Remember to bookmark this page.

Cubs schedule September 2011 (including tv and ticket info) in calendar format:
http://cubs.mlb.com/schedule/index.jsp?c...

Cubs WGN-TV and WCIU telecast schedule 2011
http://www.wgntv.com/sports/baseball/cub...

Comcast Sports tv listings
http://www.comcast.net/sports/mlb/schedule/

Comcast SportsNet Chicago
http://chicago.comcastsportsnet.com/

Comcast SportsNet Chicago daily tv listings
http://chicago.comcastsportsnet.com/page...

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