The RIC Wheelchair Cubs are sponsored by Cubs Care, the charitable arm of the Chicago Cubs baseball organization, and are a member of the National Wheelchair Softball Association. The RIC Wheelchair Cubs, a cross-disability team, is the first wheelchair softball program to be sponsored by a major league baseball team.

Wheelchair softball is played on hard surface parking lots under the official rules of 16-inch slow pitch softball as approved by the Amateur Softball Association of America with certain exceptions, as outlined by the National Wheelchair Softball Association. The RIC Wheelchair Cubs compete locally and nationally during the summer season.