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The Cubs didn’t do much dealing in this year.

Legendary Chicago Bears middle linebacker Dick Butkus passed away last week at the age of 80, and he was one player who cast his shadow over his position. As we all know, Butkus was one of the fierce...

With 2 out and nobody on base in the top of the sixth inning on Sunday at Texas, Rubicio Dubon of the Astros hit a home run, tying the score at 4 Jose Altuve, up next, also homered, breaking the...

The big-time athletes of today are much better than they were decades ago.

Al Yellon wrote a front-page post recently about his visit to the site of Seals Stadium in San Francisco, which was home to the Giants during their first 2 seasons on the West Coast, 1957-58. By...

Some home runs in the Fall Classic are just more memorable than others.

There are a lot of interesting things that flowed from this game.

Tenth in a series of posts about Cubs coaches. .......... Even in the earliest years of professional baseball, some teams had a "top aide," "lieutenant" or "right-hand man" who collaborated with...

The Athletic published a fun story last month what author Marc Craig called "all-hitters": games in which a starting pitcher allowed a hit to every batter he faced. Craig said there have been 358 s...

During the Cubs' 146 seasons in the National League, they have hit 14,659 home runs. Only 2 teams have hit more, the Yankees (16,531) and Giants (15,004). The Cubs' homers were hit by 845 d...