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Portent #4 if your team erects a statue of its greatest player. . . it's a good sign!	LETS PLAY TWO Cubs unveil Statue of Mister Cub Just in time for Opening Day 2008. . . Ernie Banks honored with statue at Wrigley Most fans say "It's about time!" . . . Some find fault with the inscription! . . . Where's the apostrophe? . . . It should say LET'S, not LETS! We expect better of a team owned by a newspaper!	MORE PORTENTS 1 Cubs Still For Sale          2 Playing Field Re-make    3 Free Agent Fukudome    4 Ernie Banks Statue         5 Sports Illustrated Cover 6 Timely Acquisitions        7 Dempster and Wood      8 Sweeping Up the Sox     9 Nine Straight Series        10 Zambrano No-hitter
DID YOU KNOW . . .	That Ernie Banks is the first player ever commemorated with a statue by the Chicago Cubs baseball club?     An earlier statue was commissioned by the team to honor the memory of popular broadcaster Harry Caray That Ernie Banks spent his entire career in one city led by one mayor on one team at one park under one owner?     Not a big deal if your career only lasted a few years--but Ernie's career was 19 years!
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