Cubs lead the 5 most popular MLB stories of '14

Merry Christmas Cubs fans!

And with that, we count down The Sports Bank’s five most popular MLBA stories of the year. Numbers indicate unique visitor counts. The Cubs dominate the list, as you’ll see.

1. PHOTOS: Cubs wearing 1914 Chicago Federals Uniforms to commemorate Wrigley Field 100 16,307

2. PHOTOS: Wrigley Field renovations, facts, figures and numbers 11,307

3. Red Sox host Jenny Dell: photos and bio 6,493

4. PHOTOS: City of San Diego, Padres honor Tony Gwynn (cuz FOX and MLB did NOT) 6,108

5. PHOTOS: Cubs giveaway Babe Ruth “called shot” bobblehead 5,496

5. PHOTOS: Brewers superfan Front Row Amy 5,496

Sadly, this will likely will be the last year that we do the most popular MLB stories of the year post. You’ll notice that every single post here is photo driven. And every “article” is nothing but obvious clickbait. You see why I don’t do much baseball content. Pandering to page views, in a blatant manner no less, is not something I’m interesting in doing at this point in my career.

Unfortunately, Cubs or non Cubs that seems to be the only MLB stuff people will click on though.

The Sports Bank went over 5,000,000 unique visitors in 2014. Here’s the rest of the year end, most popular archive:

-Five most popular Louis van Gaal stories of 2014 (Dec 19th)

-Five most popular Angel Di Maria stories of 2014 (Dec 18th)

-Five most popular Jay Cutler stories of 2014 (Dec 18th)

-Five most popular female sportscaster stories of 2014 (Dec 23rd)

-Five most popular college basketball stories of 2014 (Dec 27th)

-Five most popular college football stories of 2014 (Jan 1st)

-Five most popular NFL stories of 2014 (not including the Jay Cutler list) (Dec 28th)

-Five most popular NBA stories of 2014 (Dec 25th)

-Five most popular news/pop culture stories of 2014 (Dec 29th)

-Top 20 search terms of 2014 (Dec 30th)

-10 most popular overall (Dec 31st)

-5 most popular Liverpool (Dec 27th)

-5 most popular Chelsea (Dec 26th)

-5 most popular Arsenal (Dec 25th)

Paul M. Banks owns, operates and writes The Sports Bank.net ,which is partners with Fox Sports. Read his feature stories in the Chicago Tribune RedEye edition. Listen to him on KOZN 1620 The Zone. Follow him on Twitter (@paulmbanks). His work has been featured in hundreds of media outlets including The Washington Post and ESPN 2