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Unlikely Cubs with 8 RBI in a game, Part 4 By JohnW53 on Jun 9, 2021, 5:55am CDT + This is the fourth and last in a series of posts about the 4 lesser known of the 8 Cubs who have driven in 8 runs in a single game. The team record is 9, set by Heinie Zimmerman, in 1911, and tied by Sammy Sosa, in 2002. The more familiar names with 8 RBI are Rogers Hornsby, in 1931; Babe Herman, in 1933; Ron Santo, in 1970; and Dave Kingman, in 1978. Previous posts in this series described the big da...

Article content The Brantford police services board has decided to rename its annual safety patroller award in memory of a retired constable who died Jan. 3. The Andrea J. Cooper Safety Patroller Award honours top patrollers. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Safety patroller award renamed Back to video “Andrea epitomized everything positive about the police,” said Chief Rob Davis. “Her genuine compassion for youth and the community are unpara...

Article content Larry Brock will be the Conservative Party of Canada candidate in Brantford-Brant riding in the next federal election. The assistant Crown attorney for Brant won a two-person race, which ended on Thursday after three days of online and telephone voting by party members. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Brock wins Conservative nomination in Brantford-Brant Back to video The other candidate was business owner Mark Littell, who is chai...

Article content Michelle Meghie, a Mississauga resident who has three decades of work experience in children services and social services, hopes to become the Brantford-Brant Liberal candidate in the next federal election. Meghie is the first contestant “greenlit” to seek the local Liberal party’s nomination, said Jamie Crick, chair of the Brantford-Brant Federal Liberal Association. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Longtime Liberal Party memb...

A look back at old Royals programs Share this story I’ve been a baseball fan for as long as I can remember. Over the years I’ve kept just about every program of every game I’ve ever attended. For a long time, I wondered why, but now, writing for Royals Review and with the advent of Baseballrefernce.com, it’s been a fun walk down memory lane to revisit some of those old games. The first program in my collection is from the 1966 Kansas City Athletics. It wasn’t even a game I attended. S...

March 14, 2021 Brady Singer played in the SEC for three seasons before being drafted by the Kansas City Royals, so he faced a ton of talented hitters prior to starting his professional career. Pitching for the University of Florida from 2016-2018, Singer matched up against the likes of JJ Bleday, Nick Senzel, Bryan Reynolds, and Evan White. Easy marks were few and far between. Which of his collegiate opponents does Singer recall respecting the most? More specifically, which hitter had him laser...