Cubs catcher's fiery farewell, Part 1
Cubs catcher's fiery farewell, Part 1 By JohnW53 on Dec 16, 2020, 7:07am CST + Many players, upon leaving the Cubs or other Major League teams, have written letters to their teammates and fans, often paying significant amount for them to appear as full-page advertisements in newspapers. More than 120 years ago, catcher Tim Donahue of the Orphans, as the Cubs then were known, wrote a farewell letter of a distinctly different kind, a letter that the Chicago Tribune printed in full, for free: ... "Former Comrades: "Ye called me knocker, and ye did well to call me such. Upon the West ...
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