Ep.7 - Press Box Chronicles - Ken Hubbs
Press Box Chronicles with Jeff Pearlman
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Sports, Talk Show, 24-Sep-2025
Tragedy in sports is not new. We deal with athletes who are gone too soon, far too often - Thurman Munson, Kobe Bryant, Len Bias - the list goes on and on. But today, we're going to talk about one of the forgotten tragedies in sports history, a guy who was Thurman Munson or Kobe Bryant for an earlier generation, and that's Chicago Cubs 2B Ken Hubbs.
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