Phil Cavarretta, who was the National League’s most valuable player in 1945 when he led the Chicago Cubs to their last World Series appearance, died Saturday in Lilburn, Ga. He was 94.

CHICAGO -- Phil Cavarretta, the 1945 National League MVP who led the Chicago Cubs to their last World Series appearance, died Saturday. He was 94. Phil Cavarretta led the Cubs to their last World ...

CHICAGO – Phil Cavarretta, the 1945 National League MVP who led the Chicago Cubs to their last World Series appearance, died Saturday. He was 94. Cavarretta died at a hospice care center in ...

Phil Cavarretta, who played 20 seasons for the Chicago Cubs and won the National League’s most valuable player award and batting championship in 1945, the last time the Cubs captured a pennant ...

Today is the Cubs home opener. Today the subject is a Cubs star. Phil Cavarretta was born twenty years after Mostil, in 1916. Unlike Mostil, he made it to the major leagues quickly. Phil was only ...

Phil Cavarretta looked out toward the roped-off section of Wrigley Field`s center-field bleachers and explained Saturday how they got that way. ”It was 1952,” Cavarretta said, ”and we were ...

While Tom Ricketts endlessly ponders the “modernization” of Wrigley Field, I wish he would give a thought to recognizing the late Phil Cavarretta in some meaningful way. One of the great Cubs ...

NEW YORK – Phil Cavarretta vividly remembers running up the dugout steps at Yankee Stadium so many years ago, eager to get a look the monuments. Back then, the monuments were alive.

See About archive blog posts. Phil Cavarretta, the 1945 National League MVP who led the Chicago Cubs to their last World Series appearance, died Saturday. He was 94. Cavarretta died at a hospice ...