Chicago Cubs Report

Santo earned baseball's top honor

July, 19, 2012

7/19/12

11:32

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CHICAGO --Glenn Beckert was in his second season with the Cubs and on a road trip in San Francisco in the spring of 1966, when he woke up a little earlier than usual and discovered his roommate giving himself an injection.

"He was hitting .365 and I was hitting .210," Beckert recalled, "so I said, 'Where are those needles? I'm not going to be here much longer if I don't get my batting average up.'"

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Melissa Isaacson

Columnist, ESPNChicago.com

Melissa Isaacson is a sportswriter and author who has covered Chicago sports for the last 22 years of her 29-year career, most recently as an award-winning columnist and feature writer for the Chicago Tribune.

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Chicago Cubs, Ron Santo, Hall of Fame

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