Elia’s professional baseball career spanned more than 50 years as a player, coach, manager and executive, but his name will ...

Like many Chicago Cubs managers who tried and failed to end the team’s legendary championship drought, Lee Elia didn’t last ...

Lee Elia, who is perhaps best known for his rant directed at Cubs fans critical of his team in 1983, died Wednesday.

He is perhaps most famous for his iconic, and expletive-laden, 1983 rant while he was manager of the Chicago Cubs, in which ...

Lee Elia, former manager of the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies, died just shy of his 88th birthday after a successful ...

Lee Elia was the manager of the Chicago Cubs from 1982 to 1983. However, during his career as manager, he was known for his infamous tirade mixed with profanity at the fans that would be ...

Nobody is going to see this.'” Levine’s brother was former Chicago sports radio personality Les Grobstein (aka “The Grobber”), the keeper of the flame of the Elia tirade.

The late Les Grobstein, a longtime radio reporter and host in Chicago, captured what would become arguably the most memorable rant in the city’s professional sports history.

Forty years ago, Chicago Cubs manager Lee Elia erupted during a postgame press conference. WLS radio's Les Grobstein, above, captured the moment on tape. Courtesy of WSCR/670-AM ...

I was hoping they would have played the profanity-laden Lee Elia rant that became a central part of the Grobstein legend, but that would’ve been inappropriate for a funeral — even if Grobstein ...