Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.

Despite his advancing age in late 2008 Banks and his wife Liz Banks adopted a daughter. Thus he was technically if not officially MLB's first black manager predating Frank Robinson's hiring by almost two years. (Cal Ripken Jr now holds the record for most homers as a shortstop with 345.

Ernest "Ernie" Banks (born January 31 1931) nicknamed "Mr. He played as a shortstop and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 19 seasons on the National League's (NL) Chicago Cubs team from 1953 through 1971. Cub" is a retired professional baseball player.