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A previous post looked at Cubs starters who relieved exactly once and described those one-of-a-kind appearances by the 6 who started at least 50 times, led by Kyle Hendricks, with 222 starts. W...
A previous post presented a list of Cubs position players who had played between 75 and 100 games for the team -- from roughly half a pre-expansion season through a nice, round number -- and asked...
The future Hall of Famer was in his first full MLB season.
Seth Beer's home run in his first major league at-bat helped inspire one of the three All-Time teams in this month's Quirkjians.
March 04 2021 First of a three-art series. If you lived anywhere near Columbia County in the 1970s or '80s, you knew who Ken "Shorty" Ames was. If you knew anything about big-school Oregon baseball or football back then, you knew who Shorty Ames was. And if you grew up in St. Helens in the second half of the '70s or the first half of the '80s, Shorty Ames was nothing short of a legend. Ames, a 1979 graduate of St. Helens High School, was a three-year starter at quarterback for the Lions and St. Helens' best pitcher for all three years of his high school career. He is also a member of St...