Prostate cancer. 65 is way too young.
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RIP Ryne Sandberg
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Another 80's great gone. Brutal.
With great sadness, we share that Ryne Sandberg has passed away today. pic.twitter.com/LJJ0jGqSy5
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) July 29, 2025
I had totally forgotten that he played 3B when he first joined the Cubs...just remember Harry Caray raving about him during his rookie year when we first got cable in 1982 and could watch afternoon baseball multiple afternoons a week on WGN.
65 is definitely too young, and it sounds younger every day.
65 is definitely too young, and it sounds younger every day.
Damn. Loved him when I was a kid. This sucks.
He was my all-time favorite athlete....the reason I became a Cubs fan. My entire room as a kid was essentially a shrine to Ryno.
Sad day
Sad day
Despise the Cubs but always had mad respect for Ryno. That was a damn ball player right there
RIP sir
Cancer can kiss my ass
RIP sir
Cancer can kiss my ass
dixichkn said:
Despise the Cubs but always had mad respect for Ryno. That was a damn ball player right there
RIP sir
Cancer can kiss my ass
Same here, never a Cubs fan, but always loved Sandberg. He's the reason I wanted to play 2nd base as a kid.
F*** cancer
Damn. Loved him as a kid. He epitomized baseball to me.
Ryno hardly ever made an error and made every play look so smooth.
After the Astros, I've seen more Cubs games than any other team. When I was a kid we had WGN and they had all those Cubs home games during the middle of the day in the summer so I'll always remember guys like Sanberg, Andre Dawson, and Mark Grace from back then. Even though he didn't play for my team he was a guy I enjoyed watching.
Got my first complete set of TOPPS baseball cards for Christmas when I was 13. Turned me into the stat hound I am today. it was right after Sandberg's 1984 MVP season. Even 40+ years later I think of it as one of the greatest "complete" seasons by a non-slugger. 114 runs, 200 hits, 36 2B, 19 3B, 19 HR, 84 RBi, 32 steals, .314 average, .520 slugging. That triples total just bulges out at you.
Unfortunately the Cubs rarely made the playoffs in his time (twice) because he was lethal when they did. hit .368 vs. the Pads in the '84 LCS and .400 vs. the Giants in '89.
Cubs can put their all-time infielders against any franchise in MLB history
1B - Grace
2B - Sandberg
SS - Banks
3B - Santo
Unfortunately the Cubs rarely made the playoffs in his time (twice) because he was lethal when they did. hit .368 vs. the Pads in the '84 LCS and .400 vs. the Giants in '89.
Cubs can put their all-time infielders against any franchise in MLB history
1B - Grace
2B - Sandberg
SS - Banks
3B - Santo
Max Power said:
After the Astros, I've seen more Cubs games than any other team. When I was a kid we had WGN and they had all those Cubs home games during the middle of the day in the summer so I'll always remember guys like Sanberg, Andre Dawson, and Mark Grace from back then. Even though he didn't play for my team he was a guy I enjoyed watching.
Watching afternoon Cub games on WGN during the summer was awesome. Definitely better than going out and playing in the 100 degree heat.
RIP Ryno
F*** cancer
Before Jordan, this #23 owned the city. R.I.P. Ryno!
Sandberg was a great player
and worthy of the "WGN boost" that many Cubs players got back in the 80's
and worthy of the "WGN boost" that many Cubs players got back in the 80's
I have such fond memories of watching WGN and Cubs baseball through the 80s, especially Ryne Sandberg.
It was special to just watch him or Andre Dawson come up to bat. A fond memory that honestly wouldn't have happened in another era.
Before cable, I wouldn't have had WGN. In the streaming/smartphone/on demand era, I wouldn't have just had the Cubs games on or I'd probably be on a smartphone.
It was special to just watch him or Andre Dawson come up to bat. A fond memory that honestly wouldn't have happened in another era.
Before cable, I wouldn't have had WGN. In the streaming/smartphone/on demand era, I wouldn't have just had the Cubs games on or I'd probably be on a smartphone.
"The last couple of days, he wanted to speak to me, Andre [Dawson] and Mark Grace. He told us that he loved us and he loved all you @Cubs fans too. Go Cubs."
— MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) July 29, 2025
An emotional Shawon Dunston speaks on the impact his legendary double play partner, Ryne Sandberg, made on him. pic.twitter.com/OiHCJpAEcD
You have a good point. For me, WGN and the Cubs came along at the perfect time. Growing up in a small town in Texas, we first got cable (13 or 14 channels, you turned dial on the box to change channels) in late '82. I watched about every game shown on WGN from '83 through about '86, and then tried to catch as many as I could after that. Harry Caray and Steve Stone were great/entertaining. The team - especially in '84 was magic in a bottle (lead by Sandberg's heroic feats). In '89 they won the NL East again but came up short vs SF (not because of Ryno).
Gosh, that is sad and it is too young. And prostate cancer is usually curable. I wonder if they just got to it too late or it appeared somewhere else. Either way very, very sad.
Dang. This hits hard.
Like most 80's/90's kids that were sports fans, I watched a TON of Sandberg on WGN. What a great player.
As a kid, I absolutely tried to play like him, stance and all.
Like most 80's/90's kids that were sports fans, I watched a TON of Sandberg on WGN. What a great player.
As a kid, I absolutely tried to play like him, stance and all.
If you were a kid and a baseball fan in the Ryno/WGN era that was just such a special time. There was such a purity about it to me that I didn't understand at the time but I have such nostalgia for now.
He went into remission last summer but during a checkup in December they found that he had come out of remission and that it had spread beyond his prostate.
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