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How many different players have appeared in a game for the Cubs? Baseball-reference.com says 2,225, most of any team by 20 over the Cardinals. But its count begins in 1876, first season of the...

As long as the rule existed that a losing team had to complete 5 innings at bat or a game was wiped from the records, many teams on the short end of a score after a few innings tried to prevent the...

Four students representing the NAACP’s Boston branch won national medals at this year’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics, or ACT-SO, an annual event for Black high school students that the NAACP has run since 1978.

High school students from more than 200 NAACP chapters nationwide will compete in nearly three dozen categories across a range of disciplines for the preeminent civil rights organization’s annual ACT-SO achievement program.

Fourth and last in a series of posts First post by me at age 70! .......... During the first 6 seasons of the Modern Era, Jack Taylor established a pitching record that never has been seriously...

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...

How many games have the Cubs won in the Modern Era after not scoring before the ninth inning? After extensive research, the answer appears to be 164, equivalent to about 1 full season of the 121...

Nearly every week, while doing baseball research, I come across something that is every bit as interesting or funny as what I was working on. Many times, it is just how a story is written....

On June 30, Jason Heyward was the second Cub due up in the top of the ninth inning at Milwaukee. But after the first batter flied out, Heyward did not come to the plate. Alec Mills pinch hit for...