Heartbreak of the 1969 Cubs-(Part 1)

February 12, 2010 by BattersUp  
Filed under Baseball Equipment, First Base Mitt

Two days after Neal Armstrong took “a giant leap for mankind” and made footprints on the moon in July of 1969, I got out of the US Army and made my own footprints at O’Hare Airport near my suburban Chicago home. Something was different-the Chicago Cubs were in first place! There was excitement with talk [...]