Chicago Cubs/2009-present - The Ricketts Era

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    “Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

    “An unlicked bear”
    —Trans. by Johanna Prins.

    Dutch expression meaning “a boor”: from the old belief that bear cubs are licked into shape by their mothers.

    “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)