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Pete Crow-Armstrong has hit 1 big league home run while playing 17 games. Ernie Banks hit 512 homers in his 2,528 games. But PCA and "Mr. Cub" are tied in another batting category: each made 1...

Ian Happ was hit by a pitch thrown by Bryan Abreu of the Astros in the seventh inning Wednesday afternoon. It was the 5th time a Cub was plunked at home this season -- and the 2,000th in the team's...

More than 32,000 Bellevillians are laid to rest there. Here are 13 you might have heard of.

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...

Cody Bellinger batted .307 in 2023. That was the highest average among the 8 Cubs who had at least 324 plate appearances, 2 per game. Bellinger led all Cubs in runs batted in, with 97. He tied...

"Friday the 13th is on a Monday this month." -- Churchy LaFamme, "Pogo," on appropriate months .......... Since 1876, first year of the National League, the Cubs have a winning record of Opening...

"They also serve who only stand and wait." -- Last line of "On His Blindness," by John Milton ... Dansby Swanson fouled off a 3-2 pitch with 2 outs and the bases loaded in the third inning...

June 25 was the 105th anniversary of a peculiar achievement. On that Thursday afternoon, the Cubs demolished the Cardinals, 14-0, to the delight of 3,000 fans at Weeghman Park, today's Wrigley...

Since the Modern Era began in 1901, the highest batting average in any month by a Cub who had at least 50 plate appearances is .491, by Cliff Heathcote, in August of 1927. It's likely that some of...

In his last 10 games, through Friday, Cody Bellinger is batting .500, with 19 hits in 38 at bats, among them 2 doubles and 2 homers. That is very impressive -- but far from the highest average by...