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Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images A look back at 2024 and ahead to 2025. The current state of the Hot Stove and other news from around MLB. Here’s to a Cubs World Series Championship in 2025. (If they win, I’m going remind you all I called it. If they don’t, then I was just making New Year’s chit-chat that will have been forgotten by October.) Dayn Perry has a reason … [Read more...] about Outside The Confines: Ringing in 2025

Getty Images Welcome to 2025. Happy New Year to you from all of us at BCB. Here’s the full image from above: Getty Images/Photo illustration by Mike Bojanowski Here’s my wish for you to have a happy, healthy 2025, and also a wish for the Chicago Cubs to have a successful season and hopefully return to the postseason. If you are looking for a baseball … [Read more...] about Happy New Year from BCB!

Moe Drabowsky and his first wife Liz, while Drabowsky was with the A’s in 1962 | Courtesy David Driver He had quite a life after his family left Poland just before Nazis took over in the 1930s. Sportswriter and author David Driver approached me some time ago with a proposal to post an article here on former major league pitcher Moe Drabowsky, who pitched for the Cubs … [Read more...] about The fascinating life story of former Cubs pitcher Moe Drabowsky

Photo by AJ Messier/NHLI via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Cold steel on ice, Sammy at the Con, and other stories. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, … [Read more...] about Cub Tracks’ NYE

Photo by Jasper Juinen/Getty Images Here’s what was most popular on the site in the year that’s ending today. The year 2025 — we’ll be exactly 500 years until Zager & Evans! — begins at midnight tonight, local time. As such, it’s a good time to look back and see what brought you, the BCB reader, to the site most often during 2024. For reference, here’s the article … [Read more...] about The 10 most-read BCB articles of 2024