The Cubs’ 2026 spring training schedule includes an exhibition game against Team Italy and wraps with two days of playing host to the Yankees. Major League Baseball revealed spring training schedules on Wednesday, with the World Baseball Classic returning and adding another wrinkle to the leadup to the MLB season.

The first two years of Spring Breakout play produced several memorable moments. Paul Skenes throwing a 102-mph fastball to Jackson Holliday and striking him out on a 92-mph slider, and Spencer Jones walloping 826 feet worth of home runs in 2024.

Detroit Tigers president of baseball operations Scott Harris has hired another familiar face from his seven years with the Chicago Cubs, from 2012-19.

In between the Merkle Game of 1908 and the Homer In The Gloamin’ game of 1938, this was probably the most famous game in Cubs history. Thanks to Gabby Hartnett’s heroics in ’38 (which we’ll look at in the next installment), this 1932 game has been largely forgotten, and it shouldn’t be.