Gene Farris
Digital sports editor
Gene Farris is digital sports editor at the Chicago Sun-Times.
“The idea of being back in Chicago drew me to the [Windy City] ThunderBolts,” Jenks said. “Having the opportunity to go back there and be around this fan base again was very appealing to me.”
The Cubs won the National League Central twice under Piniella, including a 97-win season in 2008 after which he was named NL Manager of the Year.
“This wasn’t the way we wanted the season to end and every year we miss the playoffs is a difficult one,” Ricketts wrote in a letter emailed to Cubs fans.
Several Wildcats players and coaches were spotted wearing shirts bearing the message “Cats Against the World” and the number 51. Fired coach Pat Fitzgerald wore No. 51 as an NU player in the 1990s.
“This place is truly special. But I’m not done yet. Wildcat Nation, I’m back,” Buie said in a video posted on Twitter.
The former Cubs manager made his famous expletive-filled tirade 40 years ago.
Vandersloot spent 12 seasons with the Sky,
The memory of late Cubs announcer Harry Caray apparently will be invoked in the game against the Reds.