Every day in 2012, the Just One Bad Century blog will feature a story about this day in Cubs history. We're calling it
Cubs 365.
On this day in 1973 the Cubs picked a young pitcher named Donnie Moore in the first round. Moore pitched parts of four seasons in Chicago and was beginning to show some promise when they traded him away for a middle infielder named Mike Tyson.
In typical Cubs fashion, Tyson didn't do much, while Moore became an all-star closer for the Angels.
Unfortunately, the Donnie Moore story has a very tragic ending. He was haunted by a home run he gave up in the 1986 ALCS, and just a year after the Angels released him, he took his own life at the age of 35.
This is the LA Times obituary, printed the day after his death.
