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This was a year of little Cubs action on the trade market.

And the Cubs starter in this game is notable.

The Cubs did something in their loss to St. Louis last Tuesday that they had done only 7 times in the previous 24 seasons: Surrender multiple bases-loaded walks in an inning, by different...

And not just any Christmas, either — STEVE Christmas!

What do Kate Smith, Von Hayes, and Mike Tyson all have in common? On the surface, they are as distant a trio as there could possibly be. But, at some point in their careers, they all played a promine...

A previous post looked at Cubs starters who relieved exactly once and described those one-of-a-kind appearances by the 6 who started at least 50 times, led by Kyle Hendricks, with 222 starts. W...

A previous post presented a list of Cubs position players who had played between 75 and 100 games for the team -- from roughly half a pre-expansion season through a nice, round number -- and asked...

The future Hall of Famer was in his first full MLB season.

Seth Beers home run in his first major league at-bat helped inspire one of the three All-Time teams in this months Quirkjians.

March 04 2021 First of a three-art series. If you lived anywhere near Columbia County in the 1970s or 80s, you knew who Ken "Shorty" Ames was. If you knew anything about big-school Oregon baseball or football back then, you knew who Shorty Ames was. And if you grew up in St. Helens in the second half of the 70s or the first half of the 80s, Shorty Ames was nothing short of a legend. Ames, a 1979 graduate of St. Helens High School, was a three-year starter at quarterback for the Lions and ...