In 1973 I had one consistent way to get my sports news. After my mother woke up me and my brother before the sun rose, we'd quickly run outside grab a Chicago Sun-Times and begin reading the sports. We were never up to see the 10:00 p.m. news, there was no cable and no sports channels.
The morning paper was it. We'd read about every sports score, trade, etc. I think we memorized everthing except the horse race results and the Gil Thorp comic strip.
Did you notice no mention of us fighting over who got to read the paper first? That wasn't a problem because there were 104 papers delivered to our house every day by the Ashburn News Agency. It was our job to get them delivered by 7:00 a.m.
It was too difficult to re-fold the Tribune after reading it, so we usually stuck with the Sun-Times.
On this day in 1973 I was stunned to see that he Cubs traded Fergie Jenkins to the Rangers for Bill Madlock and Vic Harris. Jenkins had just completed a losing season after six consecutive 20-win seasons.
Madlock was a promising rookie and Harris couldn't do much other than play lots of positions.
The Cubs of my youth were going to be following Jenkins out of town rather quickly
Glenn Beckert was traded to the Padres in November of 1973.
Randy Hundley was traded to the Twins in November of 1973.
Ron Santo was traded to the White Sox in December of 1973.
Paul Popovich was traded to the Pirates in April of 1974.
Milt Pappas was released by the Cubs on the same day that Popovich was traded. Pappas never played in the majors again.
Billy Williams was traded to Oakland after the 1974 season.
Don Kessinger was traded to the Cardinals after the 1975 season.
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