The current issue of Smithsonian Magazine includes the article
Through Good Teams and Bad, Wrigley Field Remains the Coziest Park in Baseball — The Chicago landmark represents the purest form of the American pastime. I enjoyed it but, eh, people know the history of Wrigley Field.
I had decided not to post the article here (but you can read it if you are interested). However, I followed a link at the bottom of it to another Smithsonian story, this one about "Mr. Cub." This, I do want to share.
If Only Ernie Had Seen It. Here’s Why “Mr. Cub” Is Part of the 2016 World Series Win
Indeed. It's bad enough that "He . . . played a record 2,528 games without reaching the postseason." Worse that he died
the year before the Cubs won the World Series, "ending a 108-year championship drought, the longest in all U.S. sports."
Oh well. I guess he had to settle for being a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, a Library of Congress Living Legend, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, immortalized by a statue outside of "The Friendly Confines," and forever loved by Cubs fans.
