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These 10 modern-day players’ primes were squandered by inept teamsMike Trout is the tree that falls in the forest every September. He might as well exist in the cold, vacuum of space. If there’s any evidence that sports are raw and unscripted, it’s Trout’s annual storyline. His slow fade from public consciousness as the playoffs creep closer is in stark contrast t...

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LeBron reminds us of other greats who wore multiple numbers on the same teamAfter a tumultuous 2018-19 season with the Los Angeles Lakers, LeBron James tweeted this out, passive-aggressively declaring his intentions to change his number to six....

Albert Pujols is the latest Hall of Famer you’ll forget played for the Dodgers

The possibility of Albert Pujols returning to St. Louis to finish his career where he started it, this time as a bench bat for a Cardinals team that has title aspirations and Paul Goldschmidt at first base, was too good to be true....

Chicago magazine has a horrifically depressing story about the last years of Ernie Banks’s life. Come for his sad experiences at Hall of Fame reunions that prompted visiting a psychiatrist, stay for his sad estrangement from his wife near the end of his life. [Chicago]...

Where is Ernie Banks's body? ...

Mr. Cub Remembers

Ernie Banks, scouted by the legendary Buck O'Neill, and best known as Mr. Cub, died yesterday. We salute him with this column that John Schulian wrote for the Chicago Daily News on Aug. 5, 1977, under the headline "Mr. Cub Remembers."...

"Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks Is Dead

Ernie Banks, who starred in the Negro Leagues and in the U.S. military before joining the Chicago Cubs and slugging his way to a Hall of Fame career, died tonight at the age of 83....