It’s hard, to sum up just how much Ernie Banks loved the Chicago Cubs. To call him a fan, or for that matter, even a legend falls utterly short.
You’re looking at a man who smacked 500 home runs, won back-to-back MVP awards in 1958 and 1959 and made 11 All-Star teams. He boasts a .830 career OPS and drove in more than 100 runs on eight different occasions. And he did all this in a Chicago Cubs uniform.
Banks’ energy and smile were both contagious – and it showed in everything he did.