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It was Opening Day 1975 at old Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois|Chicago, and my father had played hooky from work and allowed me to play hooky from sc...

Spoiler Alert! The Cubs haven't often played the role of spoiler in a pennant race. I wrote recently about the 1946 season, in which the third-place Cubs won 2 of 3 games at St. Louis on the...

When Patrick Wisdom and Javier Baez each homered twice against the Padres on Monday, it was widely reported that they were the first Cubs third baseman and shortstop to hit multiple homers in the...

When Javier Baez homered against the Padres yesterday, after having struck out in his first 3 at bats, Jim Deshaies joked that it was "a typical Javy game." In fact, it was the 69th game of his...

The Cubs' victory over the Reds on Friday was their 250th by 1-0 since the start of the Modern Era in 1901. They have lost 253 games by 1-0. They have played 18,743 games over those 121 seasons,...

Blue Jays (23-23) vs Yankees (28-19)

From my new book review in Taki’s Magazine of th...

Cubs who led NL in offensive categories By JohnW53 on May 9, 2021, 5:52am CDT + 45 different offensive categories. A Cub has led or tied for the National League lead in at least 1 category in 101 of Hack Wilson led in 17 in 1930; Heinie Zimmerman (1912) and Rogers Hornsby (1929), in 16; Derrek Lee (2005), in 14; and Billy Williams (1972) in 13. At the other extreme, Walt "Moose" Moryn and Lee Walls led the NL only once each while with the Cubs -- tying for most times hit by pitch...

Hitters streaks of homering in consecutive games By JohnW53 on May 8, 2021, 4:48am CDT + Only the Yankees (16,350) and Giants (14,804) have hit more. The Cubs have hit at least 1 homer in as many as 17 consecutive games. They have homered in at least 10 straight games 5 games in a row. Intriguingly, neither have the Braves, who had hit the fourth most total homers, 14,047. Nor have the Dodgers, Phillies or Reds. That makes 5 of the 8 National League teams that existed before 1962...

Previous anniversaries of Cubs first league game By JohnW53 on May 7, 2021, 4:43am CDT + The Cubs are scheduled to host the Pirates today, May 7 -- the 150th anniversary of their first "league" game, also played at home: their National Association debut, a victory over the Cleveland Forest Citys. After 3 innings at the Union Grounds, the White Stockings, as they were known then, led, 14-1. But they barely hung on to win, 14-12. I described that game in detail in a previous post. Th...