Have you ever idly daydreamed about the Cub teams you could assemble if you went back in time armed with a copy of the Baseball Encyclopedia or the wealth of knowledge at baseball-reference.com. I have personally spent a few boring hours at airport gates doing it myself. The difference is, I’m a baseball nerd with a platform and I could not leave it daydream form. So I set out to document just what would happen if future knowledge was applied to the Cubs’ past.
Over the next six months, my weekly column will feature a coda tracking the adventures of my “Daydream Cubs.