Chicago Cubs: The 4 players who are on the franchise’s Mount Rushmore
By Kevin Henry
Sitting at the corner of Clark and Addison, Wrigley Field, despite a lack of championships in the last 100-plus years, has seen plenty of MLB stars wear the Chicago Cubs uniforms throughout the years.
And certainly while the Cubs’ history goes beyond the Friendly Confines, it is within those hallowed walls that we find the careers of the four players who make up what we believe to the team’s Mount Rushmore.
While the magical 2016 season will reverberate throughout Cubs history as the one that finally brought the franchise another World Series title, several players had Hall of Fame careers while playing for the Cubs without ever tasting victory in the Fall Classic. While they may never have won it all, those players still had careers worth celebrating, something that has been done in recent seasons with the statues being placed along the exterior of Wrigley Field.
Go to any Cubs game (home or away) and you’re likely to see a jersey of one of these four players being worn by a present-day fan. They are the names that are etched in the Cubs record book and perhaps even fly on the flags that are on the foul poles at Wrigley.