Ryne Sandberg, Hall Of Fame Second Baseman And Cub Legend, Dead At 65
The post Ryne Sandberg, Hall Of Fame Second Baseman And Cub Legend, Dead At 65 appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Wrigley Field marquee reads Ryne “Ryno” Sandberg 1959-2025 in honor of the death of Hall of Fame … More second baseman for the Chicago Cubs. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved It has been a rough few days for ‘80s icons. First, we lost Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who, in the eighties, introduced the world to a middle-class Black teenager during a time his demographic was portrayed very differently in film and on television. Two days later it was Ozzy Osbourne, the hard-core, heavy-metal lead singer of Black Sabbath who found a second chapter on the eponymous reality show “The Osbournes.” Then it was Hulk Hogan, the man who in many ways transformed professional wrestling in the last part of the 20th century. And yesterday, we lost baseball legend Ryne Sandberg, a player who, in the words of Joe Posnanski, “changed the very meaning of Cubs baseball.” Ryne Sandberg was your favorite baseball purist’s favorite baseball player. Unheralded out of high school, he had planned to play quarterback at Washington State. But Bill Harper, a seasoned scout for the Philadelphia Phillies, took a shine to the player, and convinced the club to both draft Sandberg in the 20th round and to give him a $30,000 signing bonus. In one of the great heists in baseball history, the Phillies traded Larry Bowa and Sandberg to the Cubs for Iván DeJesús. Bowa didn’t do much for the North Siders, accumulating just 1.5 bWAR over three-plus seasons, but the throw-in changed everything. Sandberg came in sixth in Rookie of the Year voting in 1982 (another second baseman, Steve Sax, won it as part of a four-year run of Dodgers’ ROYs). His sophomore year he won the first of nine Gold Gloves (all won in succession). But it was 1984…
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Wrigley Field marquee reads Ryne “Ryno” Sandberg 1959-2025 in honor of the death of Hall of Fame … More second baseman for the Chicago Cubs. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved It has been a rough few days for ‘80s icons. First, we lost Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who, in the eighties, introduced the world to a middle-class Black teenager during a time his demographic was portrayed very differently in film and on television. Two days later it was Ozzy Osbourne, the hard-core, heavy-metal lead singer of Black Sabbath who found a second chapter on the eponymous reality show “The Osbournes.” Then it was Hulk Hogan, the man who in many ways transformed professional wrestling in the last part of the 20th century. And yesterday, we lost baseball legend Ryne Sandberg, a player who, in the words of Joe Posnanski, “changed the very meaning of Cubs baseball.” Ryne Sandberg was your favorite baseball purist’s favorite baseball player. Unheralded out of high school, he had planned to play quarterback at Washington State. But Bill Harper, a seasoned scout for the Philadelphia Phillies, took a shine to the player, and convinced the club to both draft Sandberg in the 20th round and to give him a $30,000 signing bonus. In one of the great heists in baseball history, the Phillies traded Larry Bowa and Sandberg to the Cubs for Iván DeJesús. Bowa didn’t do much for the North Siders, accumulating just 1.5 bWAR over three-plus seasons, but the throw-in changed everything. Sandberg came in sixth in Rookie of the Year voting in 1982 (another second baseman, Steve Sax, won it as part of a four-year run of Dodgers’ ROYs). His sophomore year he won the first of nine Gold Gloves (all won in succession). But it was 1984…
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