All through this spring and summer, you’ve been reading about the 1969 Cubs, the famous team that never won anything 50 years ago, yet their story still resonates in the hearts of Cubs fans.
Today, I’ll begin a short series of articles commemorating the 30th anniversary of a Cubs team that did win something, Don Zimmer’s 1989 “Boys of Zimmer,” who were N.L. East champions with a 93-win season. Though they failed to get to the World Series, that team, too, had its memorable moments.
The 1989 Cubs had held first place for much of May and June, but a seven-game losing streak at the end of June had dumped them out of first place, and as they entered the game against the Giants at Wrigley Field July 20, they were 2½ games out of the top spot in the N.