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Cubs catcher's fiery farewell, Part 1


Cubs catcher s fiery farewell, Part 1
By JohnW53
on Dec 16, 2020, 7:07am CST
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Many players, upon leaving the Cubs or other Major League teams, have written letters to their teammates and fans, often paying significant amount for them to appear as full-page advertisements in newspapers.
More than 120 years ago, catcher Tim Donahue of the Orphans, as the Cubs then were known, wrote a farewell letter of a distinctly different kind, a letter that the Chicago Tribune printed in full, for free:
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Former Comrades:
Ye called me knocker, and ye did well to call me such. Upon the West Side grounds I made you look like soiled deuces in a clean deck. ....

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