A wildly popular Cubs-centric look at baseball’s past. Here’s a handy Cubs timeline, to help you follow along as wereview select scenes from the rich tapestry of Chicago Cubs and Major League Baseball history. The embedded links often point to articles that I’ve chosen as illustrative of the scenes, from The Society for American Baseball Research, reproductions of period newspapers, images, and other such material.
Today in baseball history:
- 1933 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, in a move seen as a precursor the reduction of all salaries during the depression years, voluntarily cuts his pay by forty percent.