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In 1866, Lipman Pike became the first great professional Jewish baseball player when he signed a $20-a-week contract to hold down the hot corner for the Philadelphia Athletics.

From the blog of Joe Guzzardi at The Times of Israel

Eleventh in a series of posts about Cubs coaches. .......... The history of coaches for base runners is as long as the history of professional baseball. The Cincinnati Red Stockings became the...

Fifth in a series of posts about Cubs coaches. .......... It may seem that the Cubs have had 22 different hitting coaches in the past few years. They actually have had only 13, including...

A previous post told the story of a triple play made by Bernie Friberg of the Cubs, in a 1925 game at home against the Dodgers. Friberg, rarely stationed at first base, had entered the game only...

Newsradio WTAM 1100 is Cleveland's only news radio station and an award-winning source of local news.

A previous post reported on the biggest differences between hits made and runs scored in a 9-inning loss. For the Cubs, it was 13, nearly a century ago, when they made 15 hits but tallied only...

Mark McGwire, American professional baseball player who was one of the most powerful hitters in the history of the sport. In 1998 he set a major league record for most home runs in a season (70), breaking Roger Maris’s mark of 61. McGwire’s record was surpassed by Barry Bonds in 2001.

Fourth in a series of posts about the evolution of the Cubs' record for largest home crowd, from 1901 through 1929, when they attracted 51,000 for an early-season game against the Cardinals, a...