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Cubs who led NL in offensive categories By JohnW53 on May 9, 2021, 5:52am CDT + 45 different offensive categories. A Cub has led or tied for the National League lead in at least 1 category in 101 of Hack Wilson led in 17 in 1930; Heinie Zimmerman (1912) and Rogers Hornsby (1929), in 16; Derrek Lee (2005), in 14; and Billy Williams (1972) in 13. At the other extreme, Walt "Moose" Moryn and Lee Walls led the NL only once each while with the Cubs -- tying for most times hit by pitches in 1958, with 8. Ernie Banks led in WAR (10.2) and defensive WAR (3.5) in 1959, when he was voted...

Quick Results Marius al-Ani pinned Dennis Zinner in 5:11 (**) Leon van Gasteren pinned Paris in 7:30 (**¼) Tristan Archer pinned Fast Time Moodo in 16:26 (***½) Norman Harras pinned Gulyas Junior in 5:53 to retain the wXw Shotgun Championship (**¼) Dover & Icarus pinned Nikita Charisma & Michael Schenkenberg in 15:36 (***) We’re back at the Steffy in Oberhausen, with Dave Bradshaw on commentary. They replay the finish of last week’s title match, before running down some of the card for tonight… Rambo and EZEL are backstage with Andy Jackson, who quizzes Rambo about his new alliance. ...

Previous anniversaries of Cubs' first league game By JohnW53 on May 7, 2021, 4:43am CDT + The Cubs are scheduled to host the Pirates today, May 7 -- the 150th anniversary of their first "league" game, also played at home: their National Association debut, a victory over the Cleveland Forest Citys. After 3 innings at the Union Grounds, the White Stockings, as they were known then, led, 14-1. But they barely hung on to win, 14-12. I described that game in detail in a previous post. Then I wondered how the Cubs had fared on other significant anniversaries of that historic win. Here ...

Cubs' inside-the-park home runs, 1901-15 By JohnW53 on Apr 23, 2021, 7:29am CDT + Last year, I published a 4-part series of posts about the Cubs' inside-the-park home runs. The numbers cited in those posts were obtained using baseball-reference.com's Team Batting Event Finder. But the database that it searches goes back only to 1916. Now, by examining the individual home run logs of every player who homered at least once for the Cubs from 1901-15, I have documented all of the team's inside-the-park homers the Cubs hit in the first decade and a half of the Modern Era. .......... Du...

When umpire apologized for hitting player, 1915 By JohnW53 on Apr 20, 2021, 7:04am CDT + It doesn't happen often, but every now and then a Major League umpire apologizes for his behavior. You may remember Jim Joyce. On June 2, 2010, he called a runner safe at first base, with 2 out in the ninth inning, to deprive Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga of a perfect game. After the game ended, Joyce immediately asked to speak with Galarraga. The 28-year-old Venezuelan was brought to the umpires' room,. Before Joyce could say a word, Galarraga hugged him and said, "We are all human." Joyce...