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The Cubs have had 13 general managers. [4] The general manager controls player transactions, hiring and firing of the coaching staff, and negotiates with players and agents regarding contracts. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The first person to officially hold the title of general manager for the Cubs was Charles Weber , who assumed the title in 1934.
Thomas Stuart Ricketts is the chairman of the Chicago Cubs, [1] and the Chairman, co-founder and former CEO of Incapital LLC, [2] a firm that provides securities firms and individual investors more efficient access to corporate bonds. [3]
While Ricketts is not directly involved in the team's operations, his son, Tom Ricketts, is Cubs chairman and his three other children (Pete, Laura and Todd) are on the board of directors. [31] In 2016, seven years after purchasing the Cubs, they won the World Series, ending a 108-year-old drought without a championship.
The Chicago Cubs retired numbers are commemorated on pinstriped flags flying from the foul poles at Wrigley Field, with the exception of Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers player whose number 42 was retired for all clubs. The first retired number flag, Ernie Banks' number 14, was raised on the left-field pole, and they have alternated since ...
CHICAGO − They jeered Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts for refusing to spend money with the big boys in Los Angeles and New York this winter.. They booed when Cubs president Jed Hoyer declined ...
The last 13 years as Chicago Cubs co-owner prepared Laura Ricketts for this moment. Ricketts spearheaded an investment group that officially became the new owner of the Chicago Red Stars on Friday ...
Todd M. Ricketts (born September 23, 1969) is an American businessman and politician who is a co-owner of the Chicago Cubs, a member of the TD Ameritrade board of directors, and a former Republican National Committee Finance Chairman. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Dwyane Wade is the eighth minority owner the Sky have added to their investor group this season, including new operating chair Nadia Rawlinson and Chicago Cubs co-owner Laura Ricketts. The Sky ...