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Former Cubs second baseman Glenn Beckert has died

“Around the horn, Santo, Kessinger, Beckert, Banks, the infield third to first.”

Those words were spoken hundreds of times by Cubs play-by-play announcer Jack Brickhouse from 1965 to 1971, when those four were mainstays in a Cubs infield that thrilled fans and came oh-so-close to ending the team’s postseason drought.

Ron Santo passed away in 2010; Ernie Banks left this Earth in 2015.

Today, we have lost another Cubs legend:

We lost a great one today, Glenn Beckert. Glenn was My friend, my @Cubs teammate, and the best man at my wedding.