Editing Chicago Cubs (section)

== Team ==
{{Further|Chicago Cubs all-time roster|List of Chicago Cubs first-round draft picks|List of Chicago Cubs managers|List of Chicago Cubs owners and executives}}

=== Roster ===
{{Chicago Cubs roster}}

=== Retired numbers ===
[[File:Ron_Santo_1973.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Ron Santo]]]]
[[File:Billy Williams 1973.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Billy Williams]]]]
[[File:Fergie Jenkins 1973.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Ferguson Jenkins]]]]
[[File:KikiCuylerGoudeycard.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Kiki Cuyler]]]]
[[File:Mordecai Brown, Chicago Cubs, baseball card portrait LCCN2008677458.jpg|thumb|upright=0.65|[[Mordecai Brown|Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown]]]]
{{See also|List of Major League Baseball retired numbers}}
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 number|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 then. 14, 10 and 31 (Jenkins) fly on the left-field pole; and 26, 23 and 31 (Maddux) fly on the right-field pole.

{{retired number list|
{{retired number|image=Cubs 10 Santo.svg|alt=10|name=[[Ron Santo|Ron<br>Santo]]|pos=3B|date=September 28, 2003}}
{{retired number|image=Cubs 14 Banks.svg|alt=14|name=[[Ernie Banks|Ernie<br>Banks]]|pos=SS, 1B|date=August 22, 1982}}
{{retired number|image=Cubs 23 Sandberg.svg|alt=23|name=[[Ryne Sandberg|Ryne<br>Sandberg]]|pos=2B|date=August 28, 2005}}
{{retired number|image=Cubs 26 Williams.svg|alt=26|name=[[Billy Williams (left fielder)|Billy<br>Williams]]|pos=LF|date=August 13, 1987}}
{{retired number|image=Cubs 31 Jenkins.svg|alt=31|name=[[Ferguson Jenkins|Ferguson<br>Jenkins]]|pos=P|date=May 3, 2009}}
{{retired number|image=Cubs 31 Maddux.svg|alt=31|name=[[Greg Maddux|Greg<br>Maddux]]|pos=P|date=May 3, 2009}}
{{retired number|image=Cubs 42 Robinson.svg|alt=42|name=[[Jackie Robinson|Jackie<br>Robinson]]*|pos=2B|honored=April 15, 1997}}
}}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Robinson's number was retired by all MLB clubs.

===Hall of Famers===
{{see also|Chicago Cubs award winners and league leaders}}
{{Baseball hall of fame list
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===Cubs Hall of Fame===
In August 2021, the Cubs reintroduced the Hall of Fame exhibit. The team had first established a Cubs Hall of Fame in 1982, inducting 41 members in the next four years. Six years later, it began again with the Cubs Walk of Fame, which enshrined nine until it was paused in 1998. As such, every member of those exhibits was inducted into the new Hall of Fame alongside the five most recent Cubs to enter the National Baseball Hall of Fame (Sutter, Dawson, Santo, Maddux, Smith). The 2021 class inducted one new member with [[Women in baseball|Margaret Donahue]] (team corporate/executive secretary and vice president) to make 56 names inducted as the inaugural members of the Hall.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cubs.fanportal-mlb.com/hof/?partnerID=redirect-chc-halloffame|title=Cubs}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/margaret-donahue/|title = Margaret Donahue – Society for American Baseball Research}}</ref>

Two stipulations were put for induction: at least five years as a Cub and significant contributions done as a member of the Cubs.
The exhibit is located in the Budweiser Bleacher concourse in left field of Wrigley Field.

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!scope="row" style="background:#ffb;"| '''Bold'''
|Member of the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Fame]]
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|Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame as a Cub
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!scope="row" style="background:#cfc;"| '''Bold'''
|Recipient of the Hall of Fame's [[Ford C. Frick Award]]
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
| colspan="5" style="{{Baseball primary style|Chicago Cubs}};|'''Cubs Hall of Fame'''
|-
! style="{{Baseball secondary style|Chicago Cubs}};"|Year
! style="{{Baseball secondary style|Chicago Cubs}};"|No.
! style="{{Baseball secondary style|Chicago Cubs}};"|Player
! style="{{Baseball secondary style|Chicago Cubs}};"|Position
! style="{{Baseball secondary style|Chicago Cubs}};"|Tenure
|-
| rowspan=56|2021 || — || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Albert Spalding]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[Pitcher|P]]/Owner/Manager || 1876–1878
|-
| 10 ||style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Andre Dawson]]''' || [[Right fielder|RF]] || 1987–1992
|-
| 48 || [[Andy Pafko]] || [[Center fielder|CF]] / [[Third baseman|3B]] || 1943–1951
|-
| 22 || [[Bill Buckner]] || [[First baseman|1B]] / [[Left fielder|LF]] || 1977–1984
|-
| — || [[Bill Lange]] || [[Center fielder|CF]] || 1893–1899
|-
| 2 || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Billy Herman]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[Second baseman|2B]] || 1931–1941
|-
| 26 || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Billy Williams]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[Left fielder|LF]] || 1959–1974
|-
| 42 || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Bruce Sutter]]''' || [[Pitcher|P]] || 1976–1980
|-
| 40 || [[Charlie Grimm]] || [[First baseman|1B]] / [[Manager]] || 1925–1936<br>1932–1938<br>1944–1949<br>1960
|-
| 17 || [[Charlie Root]] || [[Pitcher|P]] || 1926–1941
|-
| — || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Clark Griffith]]''' || [[Pitcher|P]] || 1893–1900
|-
| 11 || [[Don Kessinger]] || [[Shortstop|SS]] || 1964–1975
|-
| — || [[Ed Reulbach]] || [[Pitcher|P]] || 1905–1913
|-
| 14 || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Ernie Banks]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[Shortstop|SS]] / [[First baseman|1B]] || 1953–1971
|-
| 31 || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Ferguson Jenkins]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[Pitcher|P]] || 1966–1973<br>1982–1983
|-
| — || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Frank Chance]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[First baseman|1B]] / [[Manager]] || 1898–1912
|-
| — || [[Frank Schulte]] || [[Outfielder|OF]] || 1904–1916
|-
| 9 || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Gabby Hartnett]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[Catcher|C]] / [[Manager]] || 1922–1940
|-
| 18 || [[Glenn Beckert]] || [[Second baseman|2B]] || 1965–1973
|-
| 31 || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Greg Maddux]]''' || [[Pitcher|P]] ||1986–1992<br>2004–2006
|-
| — || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Grover Cleveland Alexander]]''' || [[Pitcher|P]] || 1918–1926
|-
| — || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Hack Wilson]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[Outfielder|OF]] || 1926–1931
|-
| 9 || [[Hank Sauer]] || [[Outfielder|OF]] || 1949–1955
|-
| — || style="background:#cfc;"|'''[[Harry Caray]]''' || Broadcaster || 1982–1997
|-
| — ||[[Heinie Zimmerman]] || [[Third baseman|3B]] / [[Second baseman|2B]] || 1907–1916
|-
| — || [[Hippo Vaughn]] || [[Pitcher|P]] || 1913–1921
|-
| — || style="background:#cfc;"|'''[[Jack Brickhouse]]''' || Broadcaster || 1941–1944, 1947–1981
|-
| — || [[Jimmy Ryan (baseball)|Jimmy Ryan]] || [[Center fielder|CF]] || 1891–1900
|-
| — || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Joe McCarthy (baseball manager)|Joe McCarthy]]''' || Manager || 1926–1930
|-
| — ||style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Joe Tinker]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[Shortstop|SS]] / [[Manager]] || 1902–1912<br>1916
|-
| — || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[John Clarkson]]''' || [[Pitcher|P]] || 1884–1887
|-
| — || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Johnny Evers]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[Second baseman|2B]] / [[Manager]] || 1902–1913<br>1921
|-
| 30 || [[Ken Holtzman]] || [[Pitcher|P]] || 1965–1971, 1978–1979
|-
| 3 || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Kiki Cuyler]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[Right fielder|RF]] || 1928–1935
|-
| — || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[King Kelly]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[Outfielder|OF]] / [[Catcher|C]]|| 1880–1886
|-
| 46 || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Lee Smith (baseball)|Lee Smith]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[Pitcher|P]] || 1980–1987
|-
| 2 || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Leo Durocher]]''' || Manager ||1966–1972
|-
| 5 || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Lou Boudreau]]''' || Broadcaster/Manager || 1958–59, 1961–1987<br>1960
|-
| — || [[Margaret Donahue]] || Executive || 1926–1958
|-
| — || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Mordecai Brown]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[Pitcher|P]] || 1904–1912, 1916
|-
| — || [[Orval Overall]] || [[Pitcher|P]] || 1906–1910, 1913
|-
| — || [[Philip K. Wrigley]] || Owner / Executive || 1932–1977
|-
| — || [[Pat Pieper]] || Public address announcer || 1917–1974
|-
| 44 || [[Phil Cavarretta]] || [[First baseman|1B]] / [[Outfielder|OF]] / [[Manager]] || 1934–1953
|-
| 9 || [[Randy Hundley]] || [[Catcher|C]] || 1966–1973, 1976–1977
|-
| 48 || [[Rick Reuschel]] || [[Pitcher|P]] || 1972–1981, 1983–1984
|-
| 40 || [[Rick Sutcliffe]] || [[Pitcher|P]] || 1984–1991
|-
| 5 || [[Riggs Stephenson]] || [[Left fielder|LF]] || 1926–1934
|-
| 9 || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Rogers Hornsby]]''' || [[Second baseman|2B]] / [[Manager]] || 1929–1932
|-
| 10 || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Ron Santo]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[Third baseman|3B]] || 1960–1973
|-
| 23 || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Ryne Sandberg]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || [[Second baseman|2B]] || 1982–1994, 1996–1997
|-
| 6 || [[Stan Hack]] || [[Third baseman|3B]] / [[Manager]] || 1932–1947<br>1954–1956
|-
| — || [[William Hulbert]] || Executive || 1876–1882
|-
| — || [[William Wrigley III]] || Owner || 1977–1981
|-
| — || [[William Wrigley Jr]] || Owner || 1916–1932
|-
| — || [[Yosh Kawano]] || Clubhouse manager || 1943–2008
|-
| rowspan=3|2022 || — || style="background:#ffb;"|'''[[Buck O'Neil]]'''{{sup|{{dagger}}}} || Scout<br>Coach || 1955–1988<br>1962–1965
|-
|1 ||[[José Cardenal]] || [[Outfielder|OF]] || 1972–1977
|-
| — ||[[Pat Hughes (sportscaster)|Pat Hughes]] || Broadcaster ||1996–present
|-
| rowspan=2|2023 || 12 || [[Shawon Dunston]] || [[Shortstop|SS]] || 1985–1995<br>1997
|-
| 17 ||[[Mark Grace]] || [[First baseman|1B]] || 1988–2000
|-
| rowspan=2|2024 || 16 || [[Aramis Ramírez]] || [[Third baseman|3B]] || 2003–2011
|-
| 34 ||[[Kerry Wood]] || [[Pitcher|P]] || 1998, 2000–2008<br>2011–2012
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| rowspan=2|2025 || 25 || [[Derrek Lee]] || [[First baseman|1B]] || 2004–2010
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| 21 ||[[Sammy Sosa]] || [[Right fielder|RF]] || 1992–2004
|}

===Awards===
====Most Valuable Player====
*1911 – [[Frank Schulte]]
*1929 – [[Rogers Hornsby]]
*1935 – [[Gabby Hartnett]]
*1945 – [[Phil Cavarretta]]
*1952 – [[Hank Sauer]]
*1958 – [[Ernie Banks]]
*1959 – [[Ernie Banks]]
*1984 – [[Ryne Sandberg]]
*1987 – [[Andre Dawson]]
*1998 – [[Sammy Sosa]]
*2016 – [[Kris Bryant]]

====Cy Young Award====
*1971 – [[Ferguson Jenkins]]
*1979 – [[Bruce Sutter]]
*1984 – [[Rick Sutcliffe]]
*1992 – [[Greg Maddux]]
*2015 – [[Jake Arrieta]]

====[[MLB Rookie of the Year Award|Rookie of the Year]]====
*1961 – [[Billy Williams (left fielder)|Billy Williams]]
*1962 – [[Ken Hubbs]]
*1989 – [[Jerome Walton]]
*1998 – [[Kerry Wood]]
*2008 – [[Geovany Soto]]
*2015 – [[Kris Bryant]]

===Minor league affiliations===
{{Main|List of Chicago Cubs minor league affiliates}}
{{See also|Chicago Cubs minor league players}}

The Chicago Cubs [[farm team|farm system]] consists of seven [[Minor League Baseball|minor league]] affiliates.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/affiliate.cgi?id=CHC|title=Chicago Cubs Minor League Affiliates|website=Baseball-Reference|publisher=Sports Reference|access-date=November 3, 2023}}</ref>

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!scope="col" style="{{Baseball primary style|Chicago Cubs|border=2}}"|Team
!scope="col" style="{{Baseball primary style|Chicago Cubs|border=2}}"|League
!scope="col" style="{{Baseball primary style|Chicago Cubs|border=2}}"|Location
!scope="col" style="{{Baseball primary style|Chicago Cubs|border=2}}"|Ballpark
!scope="col" style="{{Baseball primary style|Chicago Cubs|border=2}}"|Affiliated
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| [[Triple-A (baseball)|Triple-A]]
!scope="row"| [[Iowa Cubs]]
| [[International League]]
| [[Des Moines, Iowa]]
| [[Principal Park]]
| align="right"| 1981
|-
| [[Double-A (baseball)|Double-A]]
!scope="row"| [[Knoxville Smokies]]
| [[Southern League (1964–present)|Southern League]]
| [[Knoxville, Tennessee]]
| [[Covenant Health Park]]
| align="right"| 2007
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| [[High-A]]
!scope="row"| [[South Bend Cubs]]
| [[Midwest League]]
| [[South Bend, Indiana]]
| [[Four Winds Field at Coveleski Stadium]]
| align="right"| 2015
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| [[Single-A]]
!scope="row"| [[Myrtle Beach Pelicans]]
| [[Carolina League]]
| [[Myrtle Beach, South Carolina]]
| [[Pelicans Ballpark]]
| align="right"| 2015
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| rowspan=3| [[Rookie league|Rookie]]
!scope="row"| [[Arizona Complex League Cubs|ACL Cubs]]
| [[Arizona Complex League]]
| [[Mesa, Arizona]]
| [[Sloan Park]]
| align="right"| 2021
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!scope="row"| [[Dominican Summer League Cubs|DSL Cubs Blue]]
| rowspan=2|[[Dominican Summer League]]
| rowspan=2|[[Boca Chica]], [[Santo Domingo Province|Santo Domingo]]
| rowspan=2|Baseball City Complex
| rowspan=2 align="right"| 2016
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!scope="row"| [[Dominican Summer League Cubs|DSL Cubs Red]]
|}

===Spring training history===
The Chicago White Stockings, (today's Chicago Cubs), began spring training in [[Hot Springs, Arkansas]], in 1886. President [[Albert Spalding]] (founder of Spalding Sporting Goods) and player/manager [[Cap Anson]] brought their players to Hot Springs and played at the Hot Springs Baseball Grounds. The concept was for the players to have training and fitness before the start of the regular season, utilizing the bath houses of Hot Springs after practices.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://baseballhall.org/archive-collection/short-stops/school-days-in-arkansas |title = School Days in Arkansas |access-date = February 25, 2016 |archive-date = February 20, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150220024216/http://baseballhall.org/archive-collection/short-stops/school-days-in-arkansas |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.hotsprings.org/pages/history-buffs/ |title = arlington hotel, oaklawn, gangster museum, hot springs baseball trail, historical landmarks – Hot Springs, Arkansas |access-date = February 25, 2016 |archive-date = February 16, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180216151214/http://www.hotsprings.org/pages/history-buffs/ |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="encyclopediaofarkansas.net">{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=6221|title=Major League Spring Training in Hot Springs – Encyclopedia of Arkansas|website=www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net}}</ref> After the White Stockings had a successful season in 1886, winning the National League Pennant, other teams began bringing their players to Hot Springs for "spring training".<ref name="encyclopediaofarkansas.net"/><ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/1886.shtml |title = 1886 Chicago White Stockings Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics |work=Baseball Reference }}</ref> The Chicago Cubs, [[St. Louis Browns]], [[New York Yankees]], [[St. Louis Cardinals]], [[Cleveland Spiders]], [[Detroit Tigers]], [[Pittsburgh Pirates]], [[Cincinnati Reds]], [[New York Highlanders]], [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] and [[Boston Red Sox]] were among the early squads to arrive. [[Whittington Park (baseball)|Whittington Park]] (1894) and later [[Majestic Park (baseball)|Majestic Park]] (1909) and [[Fogel Field]] (1912) were all built in Hot Springs specifically to host Major League teams.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://digitalballparks.com/SpringTraining/BanJohnson.html |title = Ban Johnson Park-Whittington Park/Majestic Park/Fogel Field – Hot Springs Arkansas – Major League Spring Training grounds |access-date = February 25, 2016 |archive-date = March 4, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202630/http://digitalballparks.com/SpringTraining/BanJohnson.html |url-status = usurped }}</ref>

The Cubs' current spring training facility is located in [[Sloan Park]] in [[Mesa, Arizona]], where they play in the [[Cactus League]]. The park seats 15,000, making it Major League baseball's largest spring training facility by capacity. The Cubs annually sell out most of their games both at home and on the road. Before Sloan Park opened in 2014, the team played games at [[HoHoKam Park]] – Dwight Patterson Field from 1979. "HoHoKam" is literally translated from Native American as "those who vanished". The North Siders have called Mesa their spring home for most seasons since 1952.

In addition to Mesa, the club has held spring training in [[Hot Springs, Arkansas]] (1886, 1896–1900), (1909–1910) [[Sports in New Orleans#Baseball|New Orleans]] (1870, 1907, 1911–1912); [[Champaign, Illinois]] (1901–02, 1906); Los Angeles (1903–04, 1948–1949), [[Santa Monica, California]] (1905); [[French Lick, Indiana]] (1908, 1943–1945); [[Tampa, Florida]] (1913–1916); [[Pasadena, California]] (1917–1921); [[Santa Catalina Island, California]] (1922–1942, 1946–1947, 1950–1951); Rendezvous Park in [[Mesa, Arizona|Mesa]] (1952–1965); [[Blair Field]] in [[Long Beach, California]] (1966); and [[Scottsdale, Arizona]] (1967–1978).

The curious location on Catalina Island stemmed from Cubs owner William Wrigley Jr.'s then-majority interest in the island in 1919. Wrigley constructed a ballpark on the island to house the Cubs in spring training: it was built to the same dimensions as Wrigley Field. The ballpark was called Wrigley Field of Avalon.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.digitalballparks.com/SpringTraining/Catalina.html |title = Avalon's Wrigley Field – Catalina Island California – Former Spring Home of the Chicago Cubs |access-date = March 13, 2016 |archive-date = March 15, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160315124452/http://www.digitalballparks.com/SpringTraining/Catalina.html |url-status = usurped }}</ref> (The ballpark is long gone, but a clubhouse built by Wrigley to house the Cubs exists as the Catalina County Club.) However, by 1951 the team chose to leave Catalina Island and spring training was shifted to Mesa, Arizona.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.springtrainingonline.com/teams/chicago-cubs.htm |title = Spring Training Online History |publisher = Springtrainingonline.com |access-date = August 1, 2014 }}</ref> The Cubs' 30-year association with Catalina is chronicled in the book, ''The Cubs on Catalina'', by [[Jim Vitti]], which was named International 'Book of the Year' by ''[[The Sporting News]]''. The Cubs left Catalina after some bad weather in 1951, choosing to move to Mesa, a city where the Wrigleys also had interests.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://springtrainingmagazine.com/history2.html |title = Spring Training History Articles }}</ref> Today, there is an exhibit at the Catalina Museum dedicated to the Cubs' spring training on the island.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.catalinachamber.com/mediafilming/whats-new/catalinamuseum |title=Catalina Museum Re-Opens with New Exhibit - Catalina Island Chamber of Commerce |access-date=March 13, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314010409/http://www.catalinachamber.com/mediafilming/whats-new/catalinamuseum |archive-date=March 14, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.catalinamuseum.org/exhibitions_view.asp?nexhibition_ID=%7BA8ADEE93-DCB7-4EC8-9818-B116EB1B5FC7%7D |title = Catalina Island Museum |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150110041100/http://www.catalinamuseum.org/exhibitions_view.asp?nexhibition_ID=%7BA8ADEE93-DCB7-4EC8-9818-B116EB1B5FC7%7D |archive-date = January 10, 2015 }}</ref>

The former location in Mesa is actually the second Hohokam Park ([[Hohokam Stadium]] 1997–2013); the first was built in 1976 as the spring-training home of the Oakland Athletics who left the park in 1979. Apart from HoHoKam Park and Sloan Park the Cubs also have another Mesa training facility called Fitch Park, this complex provides {{convert|25000|sqft|m2}} of team facilities, including major league clubhouse, four practice fields, one practice infield, enclosed batting tunnels, batting cages, a maintenance facility, and administrative offices for the Cubs.