special jersey patch for the remainder of the season in his memory. <\/a><\/p>\n“Ryne Sandberg was a hero to a generation of Chicago Cubs fans and will be remembered as one of the all-time greats in nearly 150 years of this historic franchise,\u201d said Cubs executive chairman Tom Ricketts on behalf of his family and the Cubs organization. \u201cHis dedication to and respect for the game, along with his unrelenting integrity, grit, hustle, and competitive fire were hallmarks of his career. He was immensely proud of his teammates and his role as a global ambassador of the game of baseball, but most of all, he was proud of Margaret, his children and his role as husband, father, and grandfather.”<\/p>\n
Sandberg had released a statement on social media earlier this month: <\/p>\n
\u201cTo all my Fans and extended baseball Family – I wanted to share an update regarding my health,” the statement said. “It\u2019s been a challenging few months as I have been going through treatment on a regular basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile I am continuing to fight, I\u2019m looking forward to making the most of every day with my loving family and friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t been to Wrigley Field as much as I hoped in the first half but I\u2019m watching every game and am excited for the second half and to see Wrigley rocking like 1984!\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you for all the messages of support.\u00a0Go Cubs!\u201d<\/p>\n
Sandberg was drafted by the Phillies in the 1978 MLB Draft. He appeared in 13 games for the Phillies during the 1981 season, then was traded to the Cubs in 1982, along with Larry Bowa in exchange for Ivan de Jesus. <\/p>\n
Sandberg then played nearly his entire MLB career with the Cubs, winning National League MVP honors in 1984 while collecting nine Gold Gloves and seven Silver Slugger awards. He was a 10-time All-Star and won the 1990 Home Run Derby at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n
In all, Sandberg hammered 282 home runs and drove in 1,061 RBI\u2019s in his big league career, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005.<\/p>\n
He would later serve as a manager at various levels of the Cubs’ organization before being hired by the Phillies in 2013. He would manage 278 games, with a record of 119-159 before resigning during the 2015 campaign. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg has passed away at the age of 65, the team announced…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,41642,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-100889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-in-memoriam","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114934084455754632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}