Smallthoughts: Old School Tuesday …Lou Brock

Brock was blessed with great speed and baserunning instincts, but the young right fielder failed to impress the Cubs management, hitting for only a combined .260 average over his first two seasons. In 1964 after losing patience with his development, the Cubs gave up on Brock and made him part of a trade with the

Yankees and Cubs close to a deal that would send Alfonso Soriano back to the Bronx

By Mike Oz | Big League Stew The next piece of the New York Yankees’ past-their-prime team might be a guy we’ve seen in pinstripes before: Alfonso Soriano. The sell!-sell!-sell! Chicago Cubs are close to dealing the 37-year-old Soriano back to the Bronx, according to George King of the New York Post. Soriano played for