Iowa Cubs: Final call-ups edition
Aug. 8th, 2012 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23We spent Saturday watching the Iowa Cubs. This was one of the last games before the Triple-A team's two top stars got the call up to the majors.
It has been a long season for the I-Cubs, so it was nice to see a win. 3B Josh Vitters hit a three-run home run to spark the Cubs. Vitters and CF Brett Jackson made their debut for the Chicago Cubs Monday. Things are off to a rough start, with Jackson striking out four times in his first appearance, and Vitters similarly hitless.
Hard to say if either will be the Cubs saviour in 2013. Perhaps, it's smallish (but fast) LF Dave Sappelt who is the best of the rest left in Des Moines.
It also was clearance sale time for the 2012 I-Cubs dugout store, as they make room for next year's stuff. That's always a good chance to pick up discounted items.
Like everyone, the I-Cubs offer up some throwback shirts. Many will remember the I-Cubs forerunners- the Iowa Oaks of the late 70s and 80s. Still like many places, Iowa has over a century of history. There are a lot of interesting tidbits from back in the day. Teams from the turn of the 20th century and the early decades of the 1900s included the Prohibitionists (who reportedly were heavy drinkers), the Undertakers, the Demons, the Midgets, and the Underwriters.
So, if you wanted your throwback Des Moines Undertaker shirts (with umm.. mascot who looks like the WWE character), now is the time.
It has been a long season for the I-Cubs, so it was nice to see a win. 3B Josh Vitters hit a three-run home run to spark the Cubs. Vitters and CF Brett Jackson made their debut for the Chicago Cubs Monday. Things are off to a rough start, with Jackson striking out four times in his first appearance, and Vitters similarly hitless.
Hard to say if either will be the Cubs saviour in 2013. Perhaps, it's smallish (but fast) LF Dave Sappelt who is the best of the rest left in Des Moines.
It also was clearance sale time for the 2012 I-Cubs dugout store, as they make room for next year's stuff. That's always a good chance to pick up discounted items.
Like everyone, the I-Cubs offer up some throwback shirts. Many will remember the I-Cubs forerunners- the Iowa Oaks of the late 70s and 80s. Still like many places, Iowa has over a century of history. There are a lot of interesting tidbits from back in the day. Teams from the turn of the 20th century and the early decades of the 1900s included the Prohibitionists (who reportedly were heavy drinkers), the Undertakers, the Demons, the Midgets, and the Underwriters.
So, if you wanted your throwback Des Moines Undertaker shirts (with umm.. mascot who looks like the WWE character), now is the time.
