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Own a Little Chicago History
This is crazy cool.
 I was reading through the Cubby-Blue blog, and his post today Tim Souers passes along an interesting story and information on how anyone can obtain some obscure (if tangential) Cubs memorabilia.
Apparently when William Wrigley purchased the Cubs back in the 1920�s, he was looking for a new logo to adorn his team with. At the time he belonged to the Chicago Athletic Association, one of Chicago�s oldest private social clubs. The CAA used a red "C" surrounded by a blue circle as its logo. Wrigley liked the look of the logo, so he decided to adopt it for his ballclub.
Fast forward almost ninety years. The CAA shuts its doors for the final time, and little store called POSH bought up the club�s remaining china and silver. What makes this notable is that the china is marked with the CAA logo � the same logo (more or less) that the Cubs use today.
POSH is selling everything they obtained from the CAA, so here�s a chance to own not only some Chicago history, but a little Chicago Cub history as well.Labels: Chicago, Chicago Cubs
posted by Brendan | 9:57 PM | permanent link
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I was reading through the Cubby-Blue blog, and his post today Tim Souers passes along an interesting story and information on how anyone can obtain some obscure (if tangential) Cubs memorabilia.
