Posted on 07/28/2025 6:34:01 PM PDT by janetjanet998
Ryne Sandberg 1st MLB Hit is at Wrigley Field Sept 1981 as a philadelphia Philly (only non Cub hit)
https://rumble.com/v6vfwsn-ryne-sandberg-1st-mlb-hit-is-at-wrigley-field-sept-1981-as-a-philadelphia-p.html
😥😢😥😢
I don’t know any details but he had some tough times. His wife divorced him about when he was ready to retire and he tried to prolong his career but he just didn’t seem to have it anymore. 65 is young.
Home town boy. RIP Ryne.
Incredibly good ball player, and a fine man by all reports. So sad to hear this.
That's exactly what I'm thinking.
Harry Caray’s call - Ryne Sandberg game vs Cardinals June 23 1984 2 HRs off Bruce Sutter to tie game twice
https://rumble.com/v2pmrzi-harry-carays-call-sandberg-game-vs-cardinals-june-23-1984.html
How very sad.
RIP Slugger
Great Playet. You guys STOLE him from us. We could have had Schmidt and Sanberg.
No! He was one of my favorites when I was a kid.
Just 65.
He was a throw-in in a trade that sent Larry Bowa to the Cubs for Ivan DeJesus. Dallas Green, the former Phillies manager who was General Manager of the Cubs at the time, made the deal.
Cancer, from what I heard.
RIP, Ryne.
I remember that game. I was at someone’s house buying a portable dishwasher and he had the game on TV and happened to see one of Sandberg’s homers.
Very sad. I was never a Cubs fan but respected Ryan. I thought he was much younger, yet only one year younger than me.
He may have spelled it Ryne, but he’ll always be Ryan Sandburg to me. RIP.
Those old days of cable and the Cubs on every day. What a great time. Ryan was fun to watch and a good guy it appeared. So young. Playing with the old timers tomorrow.
Lifelong Met fan but Sandberg was always my favorite Cub.
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