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Today’s best known band playing Western swing comes from an unlikely source – West Virginia. Since 1969 Asleep at the Wheel has both preserved and advanced this nearly forgotten subgenre of country music through their tributes to previous generations of musicians as well as their own innovations that keep the music in the present. Initially playing straight country, the band switched to Western swing after hearing Merle Haggards’ A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World. They soon had a regular gig in Berkeley, WV and would be called on to open rock shows in the DC area.

First Cubs homer by team's top sluggers, Part 1 By JohnW53 on Apr 9, 2021, 7:08am CDT + 832 have Nearly two thirds of those who homered -- 541, to be exact -- hit fewer than 10, including 199, nearly 1 in 4, who hit exactly 1. The careers of those with a lone home run cover the team's entire history in the National League, from Ross Barnes, Cal McVey and Deacon White, in 1876; through Billy Hamilton, Josh Phegley, Steve Souza Jr. and Ildemaro Vargas in 2020; and Joc Pederson this season. The latter 5 are just the latest of 45 who have homered just once for the Cubs starting in ...

Cubs' top pinch hitters, Part 1 By JohnW53 on Mar 17, 2021, 6:13am CDT + Pinch hitting has not exactly been the Cubs' strength down through the years. In the 105 seasons since 1916, the first for which baseball-reference.com has batting splits, Cubs pinch hitters rank 20th of the 30 Major League teams in batting average (.223), 26th in on-base percentage (.302), tied for 22nd in slugging (.323) and tied for 24th in on base plus slugging (.625). Their OBP is the lowest of any non-expansion team. The 4 teams below them are the Astros, Padres, Royals and Marlins. The all-time le...

Cubs pitchers who homered twice in game By JohnW53 on Feb 6, 2021, 4:01am CST + .......... According to my research, of the 14,449 home runs that the Cubs hit have hit since 1876, first year of the National League, exactly 317 were hit by pitchers. That number is 17 fewer than the team's 334 grand slams during the same 145 seasons. ... 5 games in which a Cubs pitcher homered twice, the last of them in 1971. But by going through the website's individual Home Run Logs for every Cubs pitcher, I identified 3 more times that it happened, all before the Modern Era began in 1901. Fol...

Dunkirk Dave predicted an early spring. Without any fanfare, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dunkirk Dave did not see his shadow and predicted an early spring. Dunkirk Dave is the second longest predicting groundhog in the world, and an iteration of Dunkirk Dave, joined by handler Bob Will, has been predicting a short winter or long spring for the last 53 years. The decision to postpone the public appearance was made to keep Will, Dave’s other handler Bill Verge, anyone who would have been in attendance at the event, and Dunkirk Dave safe from the COVID-19 pandemic. “Dunkirk Dave will not b...