Word: cub
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...Cubs did not win a home game in April -- they went 0-9 in the unfriendly confines of Wrigley Field -- and began May by losing at home on Sunday, too. Following a 6-5 defeat at the hands of the Rockies last Friday, Chicago manager Tom Trebelhorn got an earful from Cub fans when he participated in an impromptu question-and-answer session at a fire station near Wrigley. In demanding reasons for the slow start by the Cubs, who were 6-16 at week's end and 8 1/2 games out of first place in the National League...
Chicago's bumbling beginning was probably more attributable to its faulty pitching staff than to anything done by Trebelhorn, who's in his first year as Cub manager. The rotation is built around three starters -- Mike Morgan, Willie Banks and Anthony Young -- who all have losing career records (they were a combined 116-186 lifetime through Sunday...
...CHICAGO CUB "TUFFY" RHODES...
...owners forced the resignation of Fay Vincent last September. Vincent's so-called sins included his prickly independence and his determination to use his powers to act "in the best interests of baseball" and his aborted attempt to limit the freedom of TV superstations, which control the lucrative Chicago Cub and Atlanta Brave franchises...
David Binder, his editor there, remembers him as "an invading army. He worked harder than anyone and had fun at it besides." No other cub reporter would have played along so willingly when Binder, trying to prevent Sulzberger from going home on time and spoiling a surprise birthday party, asked him to get quote after quote about the Panama Canal treaty. "I said, 'Arthur, why don't you call Ellsworth Bunker and see what he has to say?' Arthur got a quote from Bunker a few minutes later. Then I said, 'What about Averell Harriman?' He got a quote from...