[16BBall Fan]

Hall of Famer and Chicago Cub great Ryan Sandberg passed away this evening. RIP.

[Old School Hound]

Cancer sucks so bad. Ryno was a great one. Can't think of him and not think about the great , Harry Caray, who called so many of Ryan's games on WGN.

[jetpilot]

Cancer sucks so bad.  Ryno was a great one. Can't think of him and not think about the great , Harry Caray, who called so many of Ryan's games on WGN.

My favorite player. Best baseball game I ever saw or watched in person:

https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1950017826095251725

[jetpilot]

Whitey Herzog after that game said Sandberg was the best baseball player he had ever seen.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/06/23/...456811200/

[jetpilot]

Cancer sucks so bad.  Ryno was a great one. Can't think of him and not think about the great , Harry Caray, who called so many of Ryan's games on WGN.

My favorite player. Best baseball game I ever saw or watched in person:

https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1950017826095251725

Same year Greg Maddux was playing on Cubs' rookie league team in Pikeville and living in the dorm at Pikeville College (now UPike)

Whitey Herzog (Cards' manager) HOF
Ryne Sandberg HOF
Bruce Sutter (Cards' pitcher) HOF
Harry Caray (Cubs' announcer) HOF
Greg Maddux HOF

Great time to be a Cubs' fan and MLB was awesome back then (1984 and really all of 80s)

[King Kong]

One of my all time favorites.  My favorite 2nd baseman of all time.  That's where I played alot and I watched Ryan Sandberg trying to model my defense after him. Have a bunch of his baseball cards. I'd try to get every card of his I seen for sale.

[Van Hagar]

Cancer sucks so bad. Ryno was a great one. Can't think of him and not think about the great , Harry Caray, who called so many of Ryan's games on WGN.

Exactly the way I remember him. WGN and Harry Carry turned a lot of us into Cubs fans. My one trip to Wrigley Field was in the mid-80’s when Sandberg was in his prime, a great memory. Nothing better than baseball then.

[jetpilot]

Cancer sucks so bad.  Ryno was a great one. Can't think of him and not think about the great , Harry Caray, who called so many of Ryan's games on WGN.

  Exactly the way I remember him. WGN and Harry Carry turned a lot of us into Cubs fans.  My one trip to Wrigley Field was in the mid-80’s when Sandberg was in his prime, a great memory. Nothing better than baseball then.

Absolutely.

[Old School Hound]

Cancer sucks so bad.  Ryno was a great one. Can't think of him and not think about the great , Harry Caray, who called so many of Ryan's games on WGN.

My favorite player. Best baseball game I ever saw or watched in person:

https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1950017826095251725

I remember watching that game live. That game was fire!!!  Loved watching Cubs games on WGN  with Harry and Steve Stone and Braves games on WTBS with Skip, Ernie Johnson and Pete Van Wieren.


Btw, RIP to the guy who gave up those Sanberg dingers. Bruce Sutter was the best reliever there was at that time. He was the pitcher who first brought the splitter to prominence in MLB. Sutter's mastery of that pitch brought the split finger to the forefront of professional baseball.

[Old School Hound]

Whitey Herzog after that game said Sandberg was the best baseball player he had ever seen.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/06/23/...456811200/

And that's because, quite simply, Ryan played the game the way it's supposed to be played. So fundamentally sound.  That's why those old school managers loved him.