Shoot for the Moon | 1969 Cubs, Episode 2

While NASA raced to land a man on the moon, the Cubs entered a race of their own - a pennant race against the Mets. After a tough series in New York, the Mets had proven they wanted to be contenders but the Cubs maintained their lead and when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully landed on the moon, Cubs players and fans alike felt anything was possible. - - "Imagining those guys going someplace that they hadn't been before, we just thought we were going to win the championship that season." -Randy Hundley - - 50 years after one of the Cubs most historic seasons, Cubs Productions presents this five-part series on the 1969 team with an accompanying interactive website. Scroll back through history with additional historic and archived footage:

F i l t e r   &   S o r t