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| 1928 | The cash-strapped Braves send player-manager Rogers Hornsby, who will hit .380 along with 39 home runs and 149 RBIs for his new club, to the Cubs in exchange for $200,000 and hurlers Percy Jones, Harry 'Socks' Seibold, Bruce Cunningham, outfielder Fred Maguire, and catcher Lou Legett. Boston owner Emil Fuchs replaces the "Rajah', in the dugout, making him the last person to manage a major league club without professional playing experience until Ted Turner's one-game foray as a skipper, also with the Braves, in 1977. |
| 1973 | The Cubs, in a deal beneficial to Chicago, trade second baseman Glenn Beckert and minor league prospect Bobby Fenwick to the Padres for outfielder Jerry Morales. Their new fly chaser will spend four productive years in his first tenure with the club, including an All-Star selection in 1977, with their former infielder playing only 73 games before being released at the start of the 1975 season. |
| 2013 | Rick Renteria becomes the Cubs' 53rd manager in franchise history, the fourth in the previous five years, signing a three-year contract with two club option years with the last-place team that finished the season with 96 losses. Chicago's new 51-year-old skipper has spent the last three seasons as Bud Black's bench coach in San Diego. |
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