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In the quarter century between 1876, first year of the National League, and 1900, the Cubs hit 998 home runs -- about 40 per year. 142 of them, 1 in 7, came in a single season, 1884, when they...

"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...

It was a different time.

Eleventh in a series of posts about Cubs coaches. .......... The history of coaches for base runners is as long as the history of professional baseball. The Cincinnati Red Stockings became the...

Ninth in a series of posts about Cubs coaches. .......... The previous post in this series described the long and colorful career of Red Smith, who in 1945 became the Cubs' first official...

Third in a series of posts about Cubs coaches. .......... The Society for American Baseball Research offers detailed biographies of more than 5,000 players, executives and umpires. There is one...

Second in a series of posts about Cubs coaches. The previous post described Otto Knabe, their first coach. .......... When Manager Fred Mitchell hired Otto Knabe before the 1918 season, coaches...

In another thread we discussed Bassler and the MVP award from the early 1910's. It was called the Chalmer's Award and I read an artucle from the Baseball Hall of Fame by Craig Muder. I thought it...

Through Saturday, the Cubs have played 18,805 games since the Modern Era began in 1901. Only a handful of those games have been different from all that came before and after it. Among those...

Cubs inside-the-park home runs, 1901-15 By JohnW53 on Apr 23, 2021, 7:29am CDT + Last year, I published a 4-part series of posts about the Cubs inside-the-park home runs. The numbers cited in those posts were obtained using baseball-reference.coms Team Batting Event Finder. But the database that it searches goes back only to 1916. Now, by examining the individual home run logs of every player who homered at least once for the Cubs from 1901-15, I have documented all of the teams ins...