NFC North And “Corresponding” Baseball

The NFC North has one definite “corresponding” baseball tournament and one with a possible tournament entry.

Chicago with the NFL Bears has two baseball teams and while the White Sox will not be in the tournament, the Cubs have baseball’s best record, will almost certainly be the N.L. “one seed” as they enter the tournament in the quarterfinal round.

Detroit with the NFL Lions, has a corresponding baseball team, the Tigers, 32 years removed from their last title, that sits 4 and a half games behind the Cleveland Indians in their division, but only one game behind, in what is now a scramble for tournament entry in the American League.

Neither the Green Bay Packers nor the Minnesota Vikings, will have corresponding baseball teams in the tournament.

Both the Milwaukee Brewers (linked with the Packers who played many games in Milwaukee en route to NFL titles under Vince Lombardi including a divisional playoff game in 1967, but no longer make the travel “leap” from Lambeau Field, to play in Milwaukee) and Minnesota Twins will not be in the baseball tournament.

Those two teams are linked to and by the great player, but current last place manager with the Twins, Paul Molitor, once, a star player with the Brewers.