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You likely have heard that Shota Imanaga is scheduled on Monday to become the first Cubs pitcher to make his big league debut in the team's first home game of the season. Which Cub previously had...

The 2024 Cubs season begins! Happy Opening Day!

You might not think there are ANY clues here. Dear reader, there most certainly are.

Second in a series of posts about the Cubs' longest streaks of hitting a home run in consecutive games. .......... From the start of the Modern Era, in 1901, it took the Cubs more than a decade,...

Second in a series of post about notable season-ending games that the Cubs have played during their long history. .......... THWARTING THE CARDINALS Sept. 29, 1946 at St. Louis The Cardinals...

Second of 2 posts .......... Here is a "nugget" you are unlikely to hear on a Marquee broadcast of a Cubs game -- at least, not when Ryan Dempster is in the booth. Dempster's 18 walks with the...

On Jackie Robinson Day, we honor the man who integrated baseball in 1947. Here are the 10 best games of his glorious career.

It's never too early to set batting records. Here are marks that the Cubs can shoot for on Opening Day, based on analysis of box scores from each of their first games of the Modern Era, 1901-2022. ...

Cubs batters have hit 344 grand slams in regular-season games since 1876. Only 1 of them came on Opening Day. It happened in the 77th of their 147 season debuts, on Tuesday, April 15, 1952, in...

Walter Johnson started 666 games during his 21-season career. He completed shutouts in nearly 1 of every 6, not allowing a run 110 times. 19 other pitchers recorded at least 50 shutouts, from...