Let’s Play None

Or

Banks Liquidated

(Props to Joe)

Or

Not Too Big To Fail

(Additional accolades for Joe)
Ernie Banks, perhaps the longest suffering of the Cubs faithful, has died of a heart attack at the age of 83. Ironically, he died in this, the year of the Cubs’ World Series championship, as foretold by Back to the Future II. A former shortstop with the Kansas City Monarchs, Banks was the first black player for the Chicago Cubs. Mr. Cub played all of his 19 seasons for Chicago, earning 14 All-Star nods, finished his career with 512 HRs, including a then-record 277 at shortstop, and was the first National Leaguer to win consecutive MVP awards in 1958 and 1959. But more than any set of numbers, Banks was renowned for his unsurpassed joy at playing the greatest game, made all the more profound for having toiled so long in the place where summers go to die.