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The Cubs number 31 jersey will be the fifth number retired by the team in honor of the two pitchers, one a Hall of Famer, the other a future Cooperstown resident Ferguson Jenkins and Greg Maddux.

Maddux was the first to wear number 31 since Jenkins left the Cubs,  pretty nice for Maddux since Fergie is one of the best pitchers to ever play for the Cubs.  Maddux stated,  “It was an honor to have his number.”  Jenkins still holds the club’s strikeout record with 2,038 and Maddux has two milestones with the team, earning his 300th career win in a Cubs jersey on August 7th, 2004, and his career 3,000 strikeout on July 26, 2005.

“The No. 31 belongs to two of the greatest pitchers ever to wear a Cubs uniform,” team chairman Crane Kenney said. “Ferguson Jenkins and Greg Maddux each established themselves as dominant pitchers of their era. Each won his first Cy Young Award with the Chicago Cubs and represented our team with dignity and class on and off the field.”

Maddux could be looking up the flags on the foul poles at Wrigley Field and someday see himself with Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Ron Santo and Ryne Sandberg.