TRACHSEL MIGHT NOT GO IN OPENER, AFTER ALL
The new schedule, which is expected to have the Cubs starting the season in Cincinnati April 26, might mean a change in Opening Day pitchers. Steve Trachsel, last year's rookie...
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2 EXHIBITIONS TO PIT CUBS, SOX
The Cubs and White Sox are planning to wrap up Phase II of spring training with a home-and-home exhibition series April 24-25 at Comiskey Park and Wrigley Field. Details still...
IDLENESS NOT EASY FOR ALL
Mark Grace is smoking too much. Ron Karkovice has become a basketball junkie. And Tim Raines is worried he may be the second-best athlete in his family. Seven months on...
JORDAN FAREWELL PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON SCHUELER
White Sox General Manager Ron Schueler knows that many will look at the departure of Michael Jordan from baseball and point to him as the heavy. "I probably will be,"...
REPLACEMENT UMP STRIKES OUT ON WALK
You know it's replacement baseball when it takes five balls to draw a walk. That happened Saturday to Keith Smith, who started at shortstop for the Cubs in an 5-4...
FIRST THEY LOSE PLAYERS, NOW GAMES
Even with a replacement team in place, the Cubs were forced Monday to cancel some spring training games. Team officials announced "due to the current circumstances" they had canceled a...
`LOU BROCK,’ THE BATBOY, PART OF SHOW
Maybe this was the Lou Brock the Cubs thought they were trading. Thirty years after one of the most infamous trades in baseball history, another Lou Brock has become a...
CUBS SELECT A’S PITCHER IN DRAFT
The Cubs added a right-handed pitching prospect to their 40-man roster for $50,000, selecting Tanyon Sturtze from the Oakland A's organization with the second pick of the annual Major League...
MINOR-LEAGUER SEALS `TRADE’ FOR MACPHAIL
The Cubs finally completed the trade that brought President and CEO Andy MacPhail to Wrigley Field by sending a promising minor-league pitcher to the Minnesota Twins. Minnesota owner Carl Pohlad...
THRIFT LATEST TO BE SHOWN DOOR
The Cubs continued their wholesale house-cleaning Tuesday, telling assistant general manager Syd Thrift that his contract would not be renewed for the 1995 season. Thrift joined the Cubs in November...