That was the first time I ever saw him smile, he recalls his mother telling him. [92] Banks was named to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. What was it about him? [5] In 1953, he was discharged from the army and joined the Monarchs for the remainder of that season, achieving a .347 batting average. They think youre trying to show them up., He talked about Leo Durocher, who chose to demonstrate his authority as manager by challenging him, the Cubs biggest star, even going so far as to intimate that Ernie was responsible for the teams famous failure in 1969. There wasnt much he could say, just that Id done the best I could and it wasnt meant to be. "The fact that estate, which is being contested, doesn't appear to have much money in it wouldn't really surprise me. She was troubled to see him bringing some of this loneliness upon himself, she says, by distancing himself from his family and former teammates. (Liz Banks disputes that figure and got a court order forcing Rice to produce a list of Ernies assets, which include potentially valuable baseball memorabilia.). Often it was to ask me for a timeline for the events of 1969, the year of the Cubs greatest implosion. [7] While still in high school, Banks joined the Dallas Black Giants, a semi-pro baseball team, in 1949. Banks, who owned the home from 2000 to 2014, wasnt the only celebrity drawn to the area. The former Negro League upstart turned Cubs. . We didnt talk for at least six months. [24] The Cubs finished with a 7281 winloss record, winning 29 of 77 road games. [6] He bought into several business ventures, including a gas station, during his playing career. He was sitting at his usual table in the back of a room up a broad staircase from the Chicago Hilton lobbya room reserved for players past and present, team officials, media, and anybody who knew somebody who could get them in. GET ON A PLANE! [29], In 1960, Banks hit a major league and NL-leading 41 HR, had 117 RBI, and led the NL in games played for the sixth time in seven years. "The Wonderful World of Ernie Banks: Speed and Arm Necessity for 3 Outfielders". Why, this man wondered, had Ernie never tried to capitalize on his famous phrases Lets play two and the Friendly Confines? His top annual salary was $85,000. I wondered. After the falls, it was really draining, said Rice, who works as a singer in Chicago clubs and at corporate events but came by a few times a week to check on him and made arrangements for others to do so on the days she couldnt. Sometimes Im at a Hall of Fame reunion and Ill look around and see Im the only one in the room who never played in a World Series. We chatted for a while, and then I joined some people I was meeting for lunch. He just hid it very well.. [6] Though he had been paid modestly in comparison to other baseball stars, Banks had taken the advice of Wrigley and invested much of his earnings. After a while, neither did Ernie. Banks was active in the Chicago community during and after his tenure with the Cubs. It certainly wasnt me, she said. My first meeting with Ernie Banks occurred during the 1994 baseball strike at a golf outing. We now had about 10 hours of tape, and I figured 30 more would cover it. [38] He sustained a concussion, spent two nights in a hospital, sat out a Monday game, and hit three home runs and a double on Tuesday. [59] He was the first player to have his number retired by the team. I considered trying to change his mind but finally decided against it. I told Ernie we should get to work immediately. He had seen the stress that Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby, and the others in baseballs first wave of integration had been under, and he was not eager to take it upon himself. [95], In June 2006, Crain's Chicago Business said Banks was part of a group looking into buying the Chicago Cubs in case the Tribune Company decided to sell the club. [6], Banks won the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award in 1968, an honor recognizing playing ability and personal character. At a time of even greater racial segregation in Chicago, Black athletes, even stars like Ernie Banks, did not live downtown or on the North Side and certainly not the suburbs. Eddie was a minister, but he supported his large family by doing whatever menial jobs came along. At the same time that Anderson threw the new ball towards second baseman Taylor, Dark threw the original ball to shortstop Ernie Banks. After two years in the Army, Banks returned to the Monarchs, who sold his contract to the Chicago Cubs in 1953. CHICAGO (WLS) -- The wife of late Cubs legend Ernie Banks will have to wait longer to find out how much the hall of famer's estate is worth. HOW ARE YOU FEE-LING?! Before joining The Times as an intern in 2017, he wrote for the Columbia Missourian and Politico Europe. She claimed in court documents that Rice prompted Ernie to change his phone numbers and that she isolated him from the family. Liz doesnt want me to do the book, he said. The Windy Citys mayor, Rahm Emanuel, called him one of Chicagos greatest ambassadors.. He had signed a contract with a New York publisher a few years earlier to write his autobiography, Ernie said, but his coauthor had died. [64] Although he filed for divorce two years later, the couple briefly reconciled in early 1959. Banks was 83. He later spent time working for an insurance company and for New World Van Lines. I wanted them to mend whatever it was between them, she told me. He was talking to people. The Chicago Cubs were a part of the American fabric in the 60 years between their 1908 championship and the 1969 team that collapsed down the stretch. Unfortunately, his time wasn't my time. He was so grateful to be playing baseball for a living, he did not have time to change the world, and if that meant some people called him an Uncle Tom, well, so be it. Almost eight years later to the day of legendary Chicago Cubs player Ernie Banks' passing, a confidential settlement was agreed upon over his estate, according to a news release. What about the book? he said. Banks said, "I kept my mouth shut but tried to make a difference. [27] In 1959, the Cubs came the closest to a winning season since Banks' arrival, finishing with a 7480 record. Sometimes the people who love you cannot help. Stan Musial was at the plate facing Bob Anderson with a count of 31. [58]) Banks holds Cubs records for games played (2,528), at-bats (9,421), extra-base hits (1,009) and total bases (4,706). His 44 home runs that season were at the time the most ever for a shortstop. Despite Banks' struggles that season, the Cubs had their first winning record since the 1940s. Only later did she wonder what he was doing there. The lawyer didnt call back. [5] Other sources say Banks was noticed by Cool Papa Bell of the Monarchs. Sanderson says the big money for athletes is usually not with the sale of memorabilia. He just hid it very well.. Banks earned the nickname "Mr. Cub" while playing shortstop and first base from 1953-1971 for the team. IM IN CHICAGO! Its no wonder, then, that he was voted the Greatest Cub Ever in a 1969 Chicago Sun-Times fan poll. Ms. Rice will have to disclose all of this information. Marcel Proust ate a cookie to recall the carefree joys of his youth. [39], In May 1963, Banks set a single-game record of 22 putouts by a first baseman. Because Im not going to be needing them anymore.. [b][21][55][56] Banks hit his 500th home run on May 12, 1970, at Chicago's Wrigley Field. [91] At the 1990 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the first one held at Wrigley Field since Banks' playing days, he threw out the ceremonial first pitch to starting catcher Mike Scioscia. One website had been selling Banks' memorabilia for years. "We're happy with today's ruling. Every couple of days for two weeks, we got right to work and stayed at it for hours. Ernie used to say, especially in the long years of hot summers. Discovery Company. "That meant a lot to the neighborhood and to the young people. Baseball's Chicago Cubs report that Hall of Fame shortstop Ernie Banks has died. The large civic celebration after his death was a final tribute to that bond, and one part of it made me laugh out loud. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Ernie Banks Chicago Cubs Single Signed ONL Baseball at the best online prices at eBay! "They didn't make much money in part it's because they were on the cusp of free agency in the mid-1970s," Sanderson said. The Black Giants were a traveling team, and for eight seasons, Eddie played catcher. The following year, he hit .304 with 45 home runs. [12][15] Banks later said, "Playing for the Kansas City Monarchs was like my school, my learning, my world. You stopped laughing., Truthfully? he said. He was running from himself. The jolly Ernie Banks whom Rice had always known became somber and fearful. "[71] Banks endorsed George W. Bush for president in 2004. [50], Banks and Bob Nelson became the first black owners of a U.S. Ford Motor Company dealership in 1967, Ernie Banks Ford on Chicago's south side. Honorable men, they stuck with the terms they had agreed to a year earlier. The family insisted on burial at Graceland Cemetery instead.). And in 1977, six years after his last at-bat, Banks was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. [74] On a trip to Europe, Banks visited the Pope, who presented him with a medal that became a prized possession. IM HOME FROM CHICAGO! Hed still had that unmistakable old-ballplayer look about him. Condon, David. Author Harry Strong wrote in 2013 that "the Chicago Cubs do not have a mascot, but they hardly need one when the face of the franchise is still so visible". In March 2015, the Chicago Cubs announced that they would pay the funeral home costs.[110]. "[13] Banks hosted a program on 1450 WHFC in the late 1950s. When a publisher put his picture on the cover of a book about the 1969 Cubs, he said he was going to call and demand $50,000. I must have sent it to him half a dozen times. Some of the players are angry with you, he was told by Gene Baker, an infielder the Cubs promoted to the majors with him so he wouldnt be the only black player on the team. "Even as the Chicago Cubs lost one game after another," said the Associated Press, "Ernie Banks never lost hope. She sold the items not long after the divorce. Some people feel that because you are black you will never be treated fairly, and that you should voice your opinions, be militant about them. For decades, Ernie Banks, Mr. Cub, worked at Addison and Clark, but lived right here in this home. It was not long in coming. "The Wonderful World of Ernie Banks: Banks' Choice at 2nd: G_ _ _ _ B_ _ _ _ _ _". [23] Banks finished third in 1955 in the league's Most Valuable Player (MVP) voting, behind Roy Campanella and Duke Snider. Two years earlier, when he had called to say, IM AN OCTOGENARIAN!, I had said, Congratulations, you dont look it.. RIP Ernie Banks. I don't rely on anyone else's opinions. [32] Banks later said, "Only a duck out of water could have shared my loneliness in left field". He was not kicked out., She would not discuss her estrangement from Erniedivorce proceedings were ongoing at the time of his deathbut it led to competing claims over his estate. Rich Cohen. 2022 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. And love the North Side Cubs, a love passed down to generations of South Siders. I hesitated. She has alleged that Rice had coerced Ernie into rewriting his will, something Rice has denied. He didnt like being alone then. "Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks, the Hall of Fame slugger and two-time MVP who never lost his boundless enthusiasm for baseball despite years of playing on losing Chicago Cubs teams, died Friday night. On September 2, he hit his 400th home run. The accomplishments piled up through Banks retirement after the 1971 season: 2,583 hits, 11 National League All-Star selections, two of the leagues Most Valuable Player awards, and 512 home runs, including five seasons hitting more than 40 homers. A reticent man who passed his distrust of white people on to his children, Eddie Banks was not someone who shared his emotions easily. He became the Chicago franchises first black player in 1953. After the service, a procession moved from Downtown Chicago past Wrigley Field. That was the charm of 'Mr. Cub.' Banks, the Hall of Fame slugger and. [93] In the same year, the Society for American Baseball Research listed him 27th on a list of the 100 greatest baseball players. Banks is regarded by some as one of the greatest players of all time. Erie Neighborhood House has served immigrants for over 150 years. [59] Banks also excelled as an infielder; he won an NL Gold Glove Award for shortstop in 1960. [14] He served as a flag bearer in the 45th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion at Fort Bliss, where he played with the Harlem Globetrotters on a part-time basis. In the Feb. 26 primary, Banks finished a distant third, garnering just 12% of the vote (Condon won re-election with 55%; Gerald Gibbons drew 25%). He led the NL in putouts five times and was the NL leader in fielding percentage as shortstop three times, and once as first baseman. Why not a statue of Ernie Banks? Robinson told Banks, "Ernie, I'm glad to see you're up here so now just listen and learnFor years, I didn't talk and learned a lot about people". To read a digital version of the . Cub. Banks, the Hall of Fame slugger and two-time MVP who always maintained his boundless enthusiasm for baseball despite decades of playing on miserable teams, died Friday night. Did you know that Ernie, his nickname, was the first National League player to win consecutive Most Valuable Player Awards (1958 . [80] His great nephew, Acie Law, is a professional basketball player who attended Texas A&M University before playing in the National Basketball Association (NBA). 2023 Cable News Network. His finances were a mystery to me. 2:02 PM EST, Sun January 25, 2015, Lead intv Ernie Banks Medal of Freedom Obama Jackie Robinson_00023107.jpg, according to a story on the Cubs website. He never really had a legitimate businessperson with his best interests at heart, said one of his friends, who requested anonymity because he didnt want to be seen as breaking Ernies confidences. A few months later, Ernie called again. SUMMARY Career WAR 67.7 AB 9421 H 2583 HR 512 BA .274 R 1305 RBI 1636 [68], Banks was a lifelong Republican and he also once stated that "I'm not goin' anywhere I'm not wanted" prompting critics to claim that he was "soft" on Jim Crow; he ran for alderman in Chicago in 1963. 500", "The Wonderful World of Ernie Banks: It's Billy Williams DayCouldn 't Happen to Nicer Guy", "The Wonderful World of Ernie Banks: Clemente Toughest, in Banks' Opinion", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernie_Banks&oldid=1132693501. The breezy Marina del Rey home of late Chicago Cubs slugger Ernie Banks has hit the market for $2.75 million. Some still had the price tags on them. he demanded. He served in the U.S. military for two years, played for the Monarchs again, and began his National League career in September 1953. He couldn't run, he couldn't field; toward the end, he couldn't even hit. He had a home run hitters thick wrists and big behind, and while he had gotten bulkier through the middle, his face was full and unlined, and he moved with an athletes purposeful gait. Cubs icon and Hall of Famer Ernie Banks died Friday at age 83. I wanted them to look into each others eyes, to say, Im sorry. But not one of them showed him in a negative way., I've heard a lot of Ernie banks stories in my life, a lot. All Rights Reserved. That message alluded to the fact that Banks, despite all his stellar play over his career, never earned a World Series ring. The ball wound up in the hands of field announcer Pat Pieper, but Dark ended up getting it back anyway. The moving of his statue, which had been in storage during the construction at Wrigley Field, to a spot near the Picasso in Daley Plaza meant that one of my favorite stories about him had, if only for a few days, become reality. Willie Mays, Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente, Yogi Berra, Stan Musialthey were all made recognizable out of uniform. pic.twitter.com/OxwtXxkHt4. [41] Banks finished the season with 23 home runs, 95 RBI, and a .264 batting average. Mr. Cub will play 2 today. Once I even talked to a psychiatrist. / CBS Chicago. If a man doesn't like me because I'm black, that's fine. He started playing for the Cubs in 1953 and from the moment he hit his first home run, the city of Chicago fell in love with him. Sometimes Im at a Hall of Fame reunion and Ill look around and see Im the only one in the room who never played in a World Series. [101], In 2009, Banks was named a Library of Congress Living Legend, a designation that recognizes those "who have made significant contributions to America's diverse cultural, scientific and social heritage". Banks lived in the Los Angeles and Chicago areas. WELL, PUT HER ON! he said. Cub Ernie Banks, an elegant ambassador and all-time great, The thing is, Banks wasnt just a great baseball player, but a great champion for his sport and adopted city. Because the ball was still in play and Delmore was embroiled in an argument with Anderson and Taylor, Musial tried to run for second base. In June, he was moved to first base, learning that position from former first baseman and Cubs coach Charlie Grimm. In the summer of 2014, Rice says, she arrived at Ernies Chicago apartment and saw he had boxed up many of the autographed books he had been given over the years and a large collection of clothesties, sweaters in the bright colors he liked, straw hats that had come back into fashion, and more. He became Chicagos starting shortstop the next year, then had his real breakthrough in 1955 when he racked up 117 RBIs. This is a short video showing the grave of Chicago Cubs legend, Ernie Banks at Graceland Cemetery near Wrigley Field in Chicago. He would say, Change my landline and cell phone so they cant call me. I would change them, but then I would text them and say, This is his new landline and new cell phone. Hed say, I knew you would give them the numbers. [87] At the time of the ceremony, Banks was employed as the Cubs' corporate sales representative. [46] From the time Durocher arrived in Chicago, he was frustrated at his inability to trade or bench the aging Banks. The new will left all of Banks' assets to his longtime caregiver, Regina Rice. For decades, Ernie Banks, Mr. Cub, worked at Addison and Clark, but lived right here in this home. A woman? Banks debuted in the Negro Leagues in 1950 before moving to the Cubs three years later. His work on and off the field led to his receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nations highest civilian honor, in 2013. While the estimated value of those accounts and memorabilia sales were not disclosed in court, previously Rice has said Banks estate was only worth $16,000. National Baseball Hall of Fame biographies, Ernie Banks. [21], In 1958 and 1959, Banks became the first NL player to be awarded back-to-back MVP Awards, leading the league in RBI in both those seasons (with 129 and 143, respectively) . Had to play the man or there would have been a revolution in the street."[47]. [21][49] In his memoir Mr. Cub, published around the time that Banks retired, Banks said too much had been made of the racial implications in his relationship with Durocher: My philosophy about race relations is that I'm the man and I'll set my own patterns in life. He was an instructor in the minor leagues for the next three seasons and also worked in the Cubs' front office. Ernie had an unfailing instinct for doing the wrong thing. The most popular Cub ever in a franchise dating to the 1870s, Banks became as much an institution in Chicago as the first Mayor Daley, Studs Terkel, Michael Jordan and George Halas., A man would grow old, wrecked by madness or more by shame, trying to find just one posed photograph of Ernie Banks when he was not smiling, or just one recorded complaint from the man, or just one negative word about him from anyone with a shred of human decency, said Sports Illustrated. He was the second oldest of Eddie and Essie Banks' 12 children. To have this award passed on to me is certainly a great joy, Banks told CNNs Jake Tapper at the time. (Cal Ripken Jr. now holds the record for most home runs as a shortstop with 345. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. Between 1967 and 1971, he was a player-coach. We would chat for a while before he got to whatever was on his mind. [26] He finished the season with 28 home runs, 85 RBIs, and a .297 batting average. [102] In 2013, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom[103] with 15 other people, including Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey. "We are looking for that information to make our own determination if we should request the court to bring these assets back into the estate," said Tom Jefson, attorney for Elizabeth Banks. He was loved. But youd never know it from Banks omnipresent smile. [1][2][3] He began playing professional baseball in 1950 with the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro leagues. 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I made six dollars in nickels, dimes, and quarters. The legendary Buck ONeil was the Monarchs manager, and his instructions were not limited to the ball field. He had played before baseballs big-money days, when one good contract could set up a player for life. Its something Ill never forget.. His estranged widow Elizabeth said that he had amended his will in October without her knowledge. He was pulling out. Often, when Ernie was on baseball road trips, she would call at night and read to him from the Bible. Ernie Banks Stats by Baseball Almanac. She was 16. Even more unfortunately, there was not a thing I could do about it. [89], Banks served as a team ambassador after his retirement, though author Phil Rogers says the team had never placed Banks in a position of authority or significant influence. He wanted to make a film about himself, he said. After the death of the Cubs legend, fans can hold. Theres a real person in here, he seemed to be saying. We lived near a supermarket, and whatever they threw away we would get it, and my mother would make soup, he said. Banks, following his doctor's orders, avoided his usual off-season participation in handball and basketball, and began the 1964 season weighing seven pounds (3.2kg) more than the previous year. [98], Banks was an ordained minister; he presided at the wedding of MLB pitcher Sean Marshall. $85,000.00. I wish you wouldnt do that. [88] The team did not retire any more numbers for another five years, when Billy Williams received the honor. Baseball was not the first thing he would talk about, the attorney said. Back in 2015, when the Cubs were in the playoffs, CBS 2's Jim Williams went to the South Side in search of these Cubby fans and found some, along with the history of how they became such die-hard Cubs fans. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. 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