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Federal prosecutors also charged former First NBC loan officer Fred Beebe with similar crimes, but the grand jury ultimately found him not guilty.

Second in a series of posts about the most consecutive complete games by a pitcher in the Modern Era: 186, by Jack Taylor, in 1901-06. The first 88 and the last 8 came as a Cub. .......... After...

In bygone eras, Major League managers regularly wrote down the same batting order, game after game. Cubs fans of a certain age, like me, can immediately rattle off the top 6 in the Cubs' order...

First NBC’s spectacular $1 billion collapse in 2017 forced federal insurance to cover customers’ losses and cost the bank’s public stockholders millions

Winning on the road is hard in Major League Baseball. In 2022, only 10 of the 30 teams -- 6 in the American League and 4 in the National -- won more often than they lost when playing at foreign...

Robert Calloway, who served as executive vice president at the New Orleans bank before it failed in 2017, was accused of conspiracy to defraud the bank.

San Antonio Klan paper sparked 1920s controversies FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Shown is the front page, top of fold, of the Jan. 24, 1924, edition of the American Forum, the weekly newspaper of the Ku Klux Klan in San Antonio. The American Forum was a short-lived newspaper published from 1923 to 1924 by the Ku Klux Klan in San Antonio to promote the organization’s views and events.Courtesy Allen SheltonShow MoreShow Less 2of2 The Clifton George Motor Co. was one of many local businesses that ad...

Longest saves by Cubs pitchers By JohnW53 on Apr 18, 2021, 7:04am CDT + On April 8, Craig Kimbrel recorded his 350th career save -- his first that required 5 outs. Since then, when the Cubs have had a lead after 6 innings, several fans have half-jokingly suggested Kimbrel be brought in for a 3-inning save. ... 2,901 saves. (Saves became an official statistic only in 1969, but the rules for awarding a save were applied retroactively to earlier seasons.) 354 different pitchers are cre...

Cubs who made teams only 3 hits of game By JohnW53 on Feb 18, 2021, 5:10am CST + All were singles -- and all were by the same batter, Orlando Arcia. That night, I examined each previous 3-hit shutout by a Cubs pitcher in search of any previous times that one player made each of the hits. It had happened only once before, in 1964, when Joe Christopher of the Mets had two singles, then a double, off Larry Jackson as the Cubs won at New York, 2-0. ... Recently, I came across a game in ...

Superseding indictment handed down for First NBC Bank executives accused of fraud (Source: NOLA.com) By Tiffany Baptiste | January 29, 2021 at 8:04 PM CST - Updated January 29 at 8:27 PM NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment against five First NBC Bank executives accused of defrauding the now failed bank. The 49-count superseding indictment accuses Ashton Ryan, William Burnell, Robert Calloway, Fred Beebe and Frank Adolph of conspiring to defraud the...