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By Rob John Grabow will not significantly impact the Chicago Cubs in 2010-11, unless of course it is a significantly negative impact.  And even though 7 million dollars is a mind-blowing sum to you and me, to people like Tom Ricketts, Jim Hendry, and John Grabow, it is not so mind blowing. It is NOT i...

There have been two big developments with the Cubs. One is that the team finally has changed hands, from the Tribune Co. to the Ricketts family, headed by Tom Ricketts. The other is that the Cubs pulled off what they feel is a coup by hiring hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo, who spent 15 years in that...

Tom Ricketts has one simple plan for the Cubs .

Shortly before the sale of the Cubs was complete, new owner Tom Ricketts met with Sun-Times sports editor Stu Courtney, columnist Rick Telander, national Baseball columnist Chris De Luca, Cubs beat reporter Gordon Wittenmyer and business reporter David Roeder at Wrigley Field. Here i...

By Tim I'm sure you read everything they said yesterday. The part about getting "sucked in" to Cub fan-hood and there's "no getting out", the part about no hidden agendas and not a lot of moving parts, that simply winning is the #1 goal, the part about their obvious love for Wrigley field, and lastl...

By BY CHRIS DE LUCA cdeluca@suntimes.com Now that Tom Ricketts has control of the Cubs and Wrigley Field, he has plans to make immediate upgrades to the ballpark that turns 100 years old in 2014. Enough upgrades, he hopes, that Major League Baseball will agree to hold the 2014 All-Star Game at Wrigley.

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Tom Ricketts and his family took ownership of the Chicago Cubs and wasted no time making a promise to the team's long-suffering fans: They will bring a World Series title to a team that has gone 101 years without one. "I'll be honest. I think we have a team that can do it next year," Tom Ricketts s...

By Al Asked whether any other sports franchise is a model for the Cubs, he responds: "I think obviously what they've done with Fenway is a good thing for us to look at in terms of how to improve the stadium. Because we really do want to preserve and keep improving the special experience that Wrigley...

Tom Ricketts and his family took ownership of the Chicago Cubs and wasted no time making a promise to the team's long-suffering fans: They will bring a World Series title to a team that has gone 101 years without one.

Tom Ricketts and his family took ownership of the Chicago Cubs and wasted no time making a promise to the team's long-suffering fans: They will bring a World Series title to a team that has gone 101 years without one.

Tom Ricketts and his family took ownership of the Chicago Cubs and wasted no time making a promise to the team's long-suffering fans: They will bring a World Series title to a team that has gone 101 years without one.

CHICAGO — Tom Ricketts and his family took ownership of the Chicago Cubs and wasted no time making a promise to the team's long-suffering fans: They will bring a World Series title to a team that has gone 101 years without one...

At 11 a.m. Friday, Tom Ricketts and his family will be introduced as the ninth owners of the Cubs. Ricketts is a bona-fide Cubs fan, not a corporate entity hiding inside a neo-Gothic tower on Michigan Avenue. He likes to drink beer and sit in the bleachers. He knows the pain of 2003 and the disappoi...

By Bob Warja We won the first division title in Cubs history, and were nine outs from going to the World Series. He lived with his brother in an apartment near Wrigley Field and even met his wife Cecelia in the Wrigley bleachers. Make no mistake, he is a businessman. but he loves the Cubs.

Major League baseball owners have unanimously approved the sale of the Chicago Cubs from Tribune Co. to the Ricketts family. The vote was made during a conference call Tuesday. Tom Ricketts, who has headed the sale for his family, could take day-to-day control of the Cubs by the end of the mon...

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By Al 5. Commit money to expanding the baseball operations staff. This goes along with the point above. The Cubs have the second-smallest front-office staff in baseball (only the Marlins have fewer full-time, year-round employees). This flies in the face of the stated desire to be like the Red So...