The A/V Club gets us in the mood for baseball with "It's a Beautiful Day for a Ballgame"
To get us off on the right foot, let's go back to This Week in 1908 (the last year the Cubs won the World Series) and This Week in 1945 (the last year the Cubs appeared in the World Series.). In 1908 the Cubs are on their way back up to Chicago for the beginning of the season on the same day baseball officially recognizes Abner Doubleday as the inventor of the sport...even though he had nothing to do with it. In 1945 the Cubs are training in French Lick, Indiana while Allied Troops are liberating concentration camps in Europe.
Have you heard about who is throwing out the first pitch for the Cubs home opener later this week? A 100-year-old man.
Today's Cubs Birthdays feature a tongue twister about a player from 1905. Wrote it myself. That's the sort of unique material you won't find anywhere else. (Probably for good reason).
Have I mentioned that The A/V Club has the song "It's a Beautiful Day for a Ballgame"? It's going through my head all day. Now it's going through yours too.
Enjoy Opening Day, and Go Cubs!
