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4) Jim O’Rourke: 8 5) Harry Stovey: 6 Jones had a huge year in 1879, totaling an MLB-best nine home runs to go with 85 runs scored, 62 RBIs and 29 walks in 83 games, all league bests. He would set a new career high for homers in ’83, with 10, though that came during Chester Arthur’s presidency. Hines won the Triple Crown in ’78, when he hit .358 with four home runs and 50 RBIs for the Providence Grays. He led baseball with a .357 batting average the following year, and his career high of 10 homers came in ’87 with the Washington Nationals. A big 1880 season with the Boston Red Stock...

share-square-729490 The first name that usually comes to mind when discussing managerial longevity is Connie Mack, who was at the helm of teams for 53 seasons. Perhaps the most impressive part of his run is that 50 of those seasons came consecutively for the same team -- the Athletics, from 1901-50. The longest continuous tenure for an active manager with his current team isn’t nearly as long as that, of course. That belongs to Bob Melvin, who has managed the A’s for the past 10 seasons. Terry Francona has managed the Indians for eight years, and Kevin Cash and Craig Counsell have helmed ...

Post-season exhibition games, Part 1 By JohnW53 on Jan 10, 2021, 5:50am CST + Here are some facts about the Cubs that I bet you did not know: 1. Their defeat by the White Sox in the final game of the 1906 World Series was not their last loss that year. 2. Their victory over the Tigers in the final game of the 1907 World Series was not their last win that year. 3. After their victory over the Tigers in the final game of the following year's World Series, they lost another game to the Tigers, then beat them again. 4. After winning the City Series against the White Sox in 1909, they ...

Cubs' milestone wins on road By JohnW53 on Jan 9, 2021, 3:43am CST + 11,000 games in the National League. They ended the season with 11,016. 4,971 on the road. So, the Cubs need 29 more wins to reach 5,000 on the road. They have won at least 30 road games in every full season but one beginning in 2001, and from 2015-19 they averaged 43. They were 15-12 on the road in the shortened 2020 season. ... Two Major League teams already have won 5,000 times on the road: the Giants (5,105) and Dodgers (5,026). The Cardinals (4,989) also have more road wins than the Cubs. The Cubs' first ...

What's in a (team) name?, Part 4 ('Microbes'?) By JohnW53 on Jan 6, 2021, 3:31am CST + .......... From 1898 through the early years of the 20th Century, the team customarily was called the Orphans. But at various times the Chicago Tribune featured several alternative names, none of which gained public favor. ......... The Tribune actually introduced this name before the first appearance of Orphans. The team began the 1898 on the road, winning 5 of 8 games, with 2 more rained out. On April 29, the Tribune published this: "Threatening skies and dull, dripping rain lasted long enough...