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Pete Crow-Armstrong had 19 plate appearances last season without making a hit: 3 walks, 2 sacrifice bunts and 14 at bats. Now back with the Cubs, PCA still has a long way to go to tie the Cubs'...

Second in a series of post about players who made the most hits during the first game in which they batted for the Cubs. .......... Jack Doyle made 4 hits in 5 at bats in his debut with the Cubs...

Second of 2 posts about Bill "Swish" Nicholson, who on July 23, 1944, became only the third batter to be walked intentionally with the bases loaded. Since then, just 2 more have been walked on...

Cubs oldest, youngest debuts by position players By JohnW53 on Apr 5, 2021, 6:07am CDT + Do you remember Al Heist? He played center field for the Cubs in 1960 and 1961. In 150 games, he batted .260/.338/.390. He hit 8 home runs in 555 plate appearances, including a walk-off grand slam against the Braves on April 15, 1961. That was his second career homer. His first had come Sept. 9, 1960, at St. Louis, in his 26th game as a Cub. He played 15 before the season ended, for a total of 4...

Cubs lineup: Hometown Heroes P : Toby Kaufmann Admittedly, not exactly Murderers Row. But each of them truly is a hometown hero. Each and every one was born in Chicago. .......... FAN FAVORITE PHILLIABUCK Cavarrettas name, if not his nickname, is familiar to most long-time Cubs fans. He joined the Cubs in 1934, when he was just 17 years old, and played for them for 20 seasons, through 1953. He was the National Leagues Most Valuable Player in 1945, when he led the Major Leagues in batting averag...