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One of the many delights of watching baseball is to suddenly see a play you have never seen before. Some turn out to be the first of their kind in the long history history of the game. The...

Boo! This is the 1,400th consecutive day in which I have published at least 1 FanPost. It is No. 1,526 in that span -- No. 1,633 including the Frank Schulte poems. .......... Only 6 Cubs have...

Al Yellon has been publishing a front-page series about the Cubs' trades during the 1960s. Some were spectacular failures. You can probably rattle off several, even if you did not read Al's posts. ...

Alexander Canario electrified Wrigley Field on Tuesday night when he hit a grand slam against the Pirates in the first start of his career. It was widely reported that no Cub had done that since...

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...

Can you imagine a team positioning a player on defense to deliberately allow its opponent to score runs? That's what happened way back in 1886, in a game between the Cubs, then known as the White...

Follow along as the numbers dwindle! Games Cubs have played since 1876: 22,051 Games at home: 11,113 Wins at home: 6,153 Walk-off wins: 953 Wins by 4-3: 294 Walk-off wins by 4-3: 154 W...

Tonight's game will be the third of 4 this season between the Cubs and White Sox, whose on-field rivalry goes back to 1903. It will be their: 141st in the regular season 301st including...

These are not your father’ s Chicago Cubs or even your grandfather’ s or great-grandfather’ s Cubs. But in scoring 36 runs in back-to-back wins over the Cincinnati Reds at Wrigley Field, they very well might be your great-great-great grandfather’ s Cubs, who were then nicknamed the Colts. According to ESPN Stats, the last time the franchise scored at least 36 runs in...

A previous post looked at the most days between grand slams by Cubs. Another looked at the longest gaps between walk-offs. Today: droughts between walk-off home runs. ... The Cubs' most recent...