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The Cubs' season opener tonight will be their first game ever at Globe Life Field, home of the Rangers since 2020. It will be the 122nd park at which the Cubs have played a regular-season game. I...

What will the Cubs' record be at the end of their first season with Craig Counsell as their manager? Based on the performance of previous managers who took over to start a season, it will be...

The Cubs have had 61 full or interim managers since 1876, according to data at baseball-reference.com. 47 of them have managed the Cubs for at least 100 games. Davis Ross was the 23rd of those 47...

4-3 is one of the most frequent final scores in Major League Baseball. There have been 71 such games this season. Last year, there were 130. Since 1901, the Cubs have played 1,083 games that...

Its nice to have an easy reference point that things could always be a little crazier, a little zanier, a little nuttier. It's nice to remember 1973.

GAMES PLAYED 69th game will be their 22,000th during the regular season in the National League. No. 69 on schedule is on Thursday, June 15, at home vs. Pirates. 145th game will be 19,000th of...

Second of 2 posts .......... 768 players have hit a home run as a Cub since 1901, first season of the Modern Era. On average, their first homer came in their 23rd game. It took position players...

Second of 2 posts .......... The Cubs have played 16,887 regular-season games since the start of of 1915, the first season for which baseball-reference.com has play-by-play data. In exactly 253 g...

Third and last in a series of posts .......... On Sept. 19, 1950, Frank Hiller of the Cubs became the 33rd pitcher to face the minimum of 27 batters in a 9-inning complete game without pitching a...

We have enough clues to figure this one out, and there are a couple of interesting sidelights from this game.