The South Bend Cubs are a minor league baseball team that play in the Midwest League. They're the High-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. The team is located in South Bend, Indiana, and play their home games at Four Winds Field at Coveleski Stadium. The team changed its name to the South Bend Cubs in 2015, after being known as the South Bend White Sox from 1988 to 1993, and the South Bend Silver Hawks from 1994 to 2014.
The team's colors are red, white and royal blue, and Stu the bear cub is their mascot. They also have another mascot, Swoop the Silverhawk, which they kept after changing their name from the Silver Hawks.
Four Winds Field at Coveleski Stadium is the team's home stadium. The stadium has a capacity of approximately 5,000 people and was opened in 1987. It was named after Stanley Coveleski, a Hall of Fame pitcher who retired to South Bend after a career in major league baseball that included pitching three complete games to help the Cleveland Indians win the 1920 World Series. The field is now known as Four Winds Field after the team announced an agreement with the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, owners of Four Winds Casinos, for naming rights to the field. As part of the agreement, a permanent bronze memorial bearing the name and likeness of Stanley Coveleski is located at the main entrance in his honor.
The South Bend Cubs have won five league titles, in 1989, 1993, 2005, 2019 and 2022. Despite playing through rumors of sale and relocation in the near future to Marion, Illinois, the Silver Hawks managed a championship season in 2005, beating the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers and winning the 2005 Midwest League Championship.
The team has had notable former players, such as Brandon Webb and Justin Upton, the latter of whom was selected first overall by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2005. The South Bend Cubs won the 42nd John H. Johnson President's Award as the minor league's "most complete franchise" after setting attendance records during the 2015 season.
