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The Yankees’ first Hall of Fame center fielder wasn’t named Mickey or Joe. Earle Combs was the real deal for Murderers’ Row.

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper -- T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" ... It is also how the careers of the Cubs' best players have ended. I decided to look at the last...

No doubt about it: Players' salaries today are astronomical. But for many years, they were absurdly low. Ernie Banks never made more than $60,000 in a season; Hack Wilson, $33,000; or Gabby...

A small man who made it big

Cap Anson is the Cubs' all-time leader in hits. He is credited with 3,012 during his 22 seasons with the team, 1876-97. Ernie Banks is a distant second, with 2,583 in 19 seasons. But Anson...

One of the many delights of watching baseball is to suddenly see a play you have never seen before. Some turn out to be the first of their kind in the long history history of the game. The...

Tommy Pham, long a thorn in the side of the Cubs, made 4 hits for the Diamondbacks in Game 2 of the World Series on Saturday. He was due up again in the ninth inning, but asked Manager Torey...

Baseball is deservedly known as our national sport, for in the World Series just ended in triumph for the Athletics it was evident that the games contained most of the characteristic phases of American life: shrewdness, skill, sentimentality, and downright luck.

The Chicago Cubs have had some notable power hitters since 2005, but none of them have done what Derek Lee did that season.

Fourth and last in a series of posts about the Cubs' longest streaks of hitting a home run in consecutive games. .......... Previous posts described the evolution of the team-record streak for...