Overview

With a deceptive home-run stroke and a perpetually sunny disposition, Ernie Banks' well-earned title of "Mr. Cub" will last forever — and hands down, puts him at No. 1 on Mark Potash's list of greatest Cubs. And despite the team's futility, 39 players now in the Hall of Fame have put on a Cubs uniform. Who made the list? Where did Sammy Sosa, the all-time home run leader with a tainted past, rank? The list, plus stories about the greatest Cubs from the Sun-Times archives.