Cubs very first extra-inning game By JohnW53 on May 20, 2021, 6:35am CDT +
When baseball historians write about 1870, the first season of the team now known as the Cubs, they typically focus on a handful of games:
1. Lopsided victories against amateur teams by such scores as 47-1, 51-0, 62-6, 74-5, 96-7, 111-5 and 157-1.
2. Their shocking 9-0 loss at home to the New York Mutuals
3. Their epic, 10-6 victory at Cincinnati that dethroned the champion Red Stockings
But the team then called the White Stockings played another landmark game that year.
In their 24th contest of the year and sixth of a 21-game Eastern trip, the Whites played the first
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