Year: 2016

Matt Maldre, scorecards, and World Series trophy

The Cubs World Series trophy is real, I saw it in person!

I almost missed getting my photo taken with the World Series trophy. I work from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The World Series trophy is sitting at the Tribune Tower, and I was almost not there. For the past 16 years I’ve been working for Tribune Content Agency in the Tribune Tower. Whenever a Chicago …

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World Series 2016 Style Guide

Customizing a scorecard for the 2016 World Series

Creating custom scorecards for Chicago magazine required a custom scorecard template, which included the Chicago magazine logo and the World Series logo. Using official logos makes it all official The logo for Chicago magazine was sent to me from their digital editor. He kindly asked me if I wanted to include it. Heck yeah! That …

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Journal excerpt

Chicago magazine commissions me to do World Series scorecards

How did Chicago magazine find my scorecards? How did I react? Here’s the story about how it happened. The Cubs going to the World Series is enough excitement for any Cubs fan. My excitement got doubled over as Chicago magazine asked to use my scorecard as a blog post on their site, and credit me …

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22 Cubs players give thanks to Chicago fans after World Series

The Cubs are World Series champions! 22 Cubs players have given thanks to the fans on Twitter, some gave thanks several times on Twitter. In total there are 38 tweets. The player giving the most thanks to fans is Jon Lester with four. The player with the least likes and retweets on his tweet of …

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Chicago Cubs Golden Ratio

The front page of a newspaper matters. It is the very definitive representation of monumental civic, national, and global events. For 30-some years I often wondered what photo/headline would represent the ageless dream of a Chicago Cubs World Series Championship. That day finally arrived November 3rd thanks to the brilliance of the Chicago Tribune. Momentos …

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