About the time the Cubs traded Lou Brock, that is to say.

The Cubs then traded him to the Colorado Rockies the same month, for a player to be named later and cash.

The possibility that the Cubs will trade Sosa has become the premier story of the season.

The Cubs traded him in 1974 to Texas, and he won 25 games for the Rangers that season.

The Cubs then traded Scott back to the Expos by the end of the year.

There was little time for him to figure out why the Cubs had traded him.

Already this season, the Cubs lost one key relief pitcher because of injury and traded another because of ineffectiveness.

Axelrod, however, said the Cubs would have traded Grace for less than equal value before simply letting him go by not offering a contract.

But the Cubs that Pafko came to symbolize invariably traded their best players, and the other clubs always got the better of it.