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No one who frequents the dark auditorium is really an atheist — Edgar Morin, Marxist Movie Critic Orientation Cross-cultural uniqueness of celebrity culture If members of a tribal society during Paleolithic or Neolithic times, or even members of Bronze Age Egypt or Mesopotamia had heard about the United States population’s devotion to celebrities, they wouldn’t […]

Third in a series of post about players whose only home run as a Cub was a grand slam. .......... Fun with percentages: Since 1876, in regular-season games, the Cubs have hit 14,659 home runs. P...

The Cubs will start tonight's game against the Brewers needing to score only 8 more runs to become the first team to reach 100,000 since the start of the National League in 1876. Their 99,992 are 1...

Spoiler Alert! The Cubs haven't often played the role of spoiler in a pennant race. I wrote recently about the 1946 season, in which the third-place Cubs won 2 of 3 games at St. Louis on the...

2021 is the 75th anniversary of 1946, a year in which the Cubs were defending National League champions and posted a winning percentage they would not surpass until 1967. In 1945, they had been 9...

Until a video review overturned the umpire's call of safe, Tony Wolters appeared on Sunday to have become the first Cubs catcher to steal home in nearly 55 years. It would have been only the Cubs'...

Cubs top pinch hitters, Part 1 By JohnW53 on Mar 17, 2021, 6:13am CDT + Pinch hitting has not exactly been the Cubs strength down through the years. In the 105 seasons since 1916, the first for which baseball-reference.com has batting splits, Cubs pinch hitters rank 20th of the 30 Major League teams in batting average (.223), 26th in on-base percentage (.302), tied for 22nd in slugging (.323) and tied for 24th in on base plus slugging (.625). Their OBP is the lowest of any non-...

145-year chain of Cubs pitchers and catchers By JohnW53 on Dec 21, 2020, 5:59am CST + Or fascinating. I lean toward fascinating: There is a nearly unbroken chain of pitchers and catchers from the Cubs first National League game in 1876 all the way to the last week of the 2020 schedule. ... This incredible chain consists not just of a pitcher and catcher who were ON the team in the same season. It consists of a pitcher and catcher who were on the field together in the LAST GAME eith...

14 Cubs form chain that spans 145 seasons By JohnW53 on Dec 20, 2020, 7:35am CST 1 Some years ago, an enterprising baseball historian figured out how to make a chain of just 9 players that spanned the history of Major League Baseball. It began with Harry Wright of the 1869 Cincinnati Reds, the first professional team. In his final season, another player was a rookie, and it that players final season, a third player was a rookie, and so on to the current season. (I hunted for the st...