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by Jason Brannon

Another excerpt from next month’s Chicagoan profile of Cubs owner Tom Ricketts:

↵↵Of the many no-trade contracts that have hamstrung the club in recent years, Ricketts remarked, “What can you do? We were the victim of a Fonzie scheme.”

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