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Third in a series of posts about home runs hit by Cubs that are not to be found in baseball's official records. .......... From 1876 through 1909, Cubs hitters lost only 1 home run when a game...

Third in a series of posts about the Cubs' longest streaks of hitting a home run in consecutive games. .......... The previous posts described the evolution of the team-record streak for hitting...

A previous post, prompted by an untimely error by Ian Happ, examined fly balls dropped by Cubs in the outfield. Prominent in that post was an account of the ball muffed by Brant Brown at Milwaukee...

On Sunday, July 2, 1961, the Cubs did something they never had done in the Modern Era, have not done since and almost certainly never will do again. As 18,447 looked on at Wrigley Field, Cubs...

Starting on May 9, Christopher Morel played in 20 of the Cubs' 21 games following his promotion from Iowa. Manager David Ross rested Morel on June 3, as the Cubs lost at San Diego, 6-0. The next...

After his 12-year playing career, Craig became a renowned pitching coach and manager best known for helping to spread "The Pitch of the '80s"

Since 1876, the Cubs have lost 10,635 games. They have lost 3,236 of them, about one third, by 1 run, an average of just under 22 per year. Sunday's loss at Philadelphia was their 487th by a...

On May 15 of this year, in the Cubs' 3-2 win at Arizona, 5 of their 8 hits were for extra bases. None of the 5 was a triple. Exactly 25 years earlier, on May 15, 1997, while beating the Padres at...

A previous post examined how often the Cubs have won and lost games in which they took the lead in the bottom of the eighth inning. They have done so in 418 games since 1915, first season for...

Last Thursday, Seiya Suzuki hit a solo home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to give the Cubs a 3-2 lead over the Reds. Cincinnati scored twice in the ninth and won the game, 4-3. I...