Just One Bad Century--April 2

We're debuting another new feature today that will run the rest of the baseball season. It's called "Historical Events: Where were the Cubs?" When your team has been around as long as the Cubs have (142 years), there are bound to be stories about where they were and what they were doing when important events in history occured. We decided to find out. Every week we'll post the historical events from that particular week in history and find out what the Cubs were up to...at least one event from every day. Today, it's the anniversary of President Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany.

If you missed it yesterday, This Week in Wrigley Field history was posted. Today's entry (April 2) tells you what happened there on this day in 2001. It involves a team that doesn't exist anymore.

There are eight Cubs featured today in "Today's Cubs Birthdays", including one of my all-time favorite stories. The man who made the mistake of beaning Frank Chance one too many times.

The A/V Club celebrates the anniversary of the baseball strike ending, with President Clinton weighing in on the subject from the White House briefing room.

In the latest Cubs news, the Cubs signed Joel Piniero to a minor league deal, the Cubs were pranked by Bing on April Fool's Day, and if you watch this video you can see that the Ricketts family has had it with the rooftop owners, and I personally don't blame them...