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The Cubs' season opener tonight will be their first game ever at Globe Life Field, home of the Rangers since 2020. It will be the 122nd park at which the Cubs have played a regular-season game. I...
A previous post, prompted by an untimely error by Ian Happ, examined fly balls dropped by Cubs in the outfield. Prominent in that post was an account of the ball muffed by Brant Brown at Milwaukee...
Since 1876, the Cubs have lost 10,635 games. They have lost 3,236 of them, about one third, by 1 run, an average of just under 22 per year. Sunday's loss at Philadelphia was their 487th by a...
Fifth in a series of posts about Cubs coaches. .......... It may seem that the Cubs have had 22 different hitting coaches in the past few years. They actually have had only 13, including...
I Am Really Glad I Chose The Right Quincy Forty-three years ago today I worked my first day on the air in Quincy. How that came to be is a little bizarre. I call it destiny! After a four-year tenure in Kansas City at what is now KCFX Radio (formerly KIEE Radio) I agreed to take an on-air and play-by-play position with WTAD here in Quincy. I never even applied for the position. By chance Gary Schmedding, the Operations Director of WTAD, was in Kansas City and heard me on the air and out of the blue offered me the position. That offer only came after Mel and El Tappe of Quincy decided they di...