A few weeks ago, my random baseball card was of Lou Brock as a young player with the Cubs. The Brock-for-Broglio trade always has served as one of the defining moments for Cubs futility.
However, it should be noted that not every trade imploded on the Cubs. Note this rookie card of Ferguson Jenkins as a young pitcher for the Phillies.
On April 21, 1966, Jenkins, along with John Hernstein and Adolfo Phillips, was sent to the Cubs for aging pitchers Bob Buhl and Larry Jackson. That’s definitely a trade the Phillies would like to have back.
Jenkins went on to post six straight 20-win seasons with the Cubs en route to a career that landed him in Cooperstown.
Here are Jenkins’ stats.