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No one who frequents the dark auditorium is really an atheist — Edgar Morin, Marxist Movie Critic Orientation Cross-cultural uniqueness of celebrity culture If members of a tribal society during Paleolithic or Neolithic times, or even members of Bronze Age Egypt or Mesopotamia had heard about the United States population’s devotion to celebrities, they wouldn’t […]
Third in a series of post about players whose only home run as a Cub was a grand slam. .......... Fun with percentages: Since 1876, in regular-season games, the Cubs have hit 14,659 home runs. P...
The Cubs will start tonight's game against the Brewers needing to score only 8 more runs to become the first team to reach 100,000 since the start of the National League in 1876. Their 99,992 are 1...
Spoiler Alert! The Cubs haven't often played the role of spoiler in a pennant race. I wrote recently about the 1946 season, in which the third-place Cubs won 2 of 3 games at St. Louis on the...
2021 is the 75th anniversary of 1946, a year in which the Cubs were defending National League champions and posted a winning percentage they would not surpass until 1967. In 1945, they had been 9...