A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1969
The Cubs collapsed on the field. And the front office made some terrible trades, too.
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The Cubs collapsed on the field. And the front office made some terrible trades, too.
The latest in our long-running series of #Cubs-related news articles. This one looks below the surface.
Games-played streaks, Part 1: Billy Williams By JohnW53 on Apr 25, 2021, 7:03am CDT + In some, the player rarely took an inning off, let alone missed a game. Early in Cal Ripken Jr.'s record streak of 2,632 games, he played 8,264 straight innings. The second-longest such stretch in the Modern Era is just 4,620. Ernie Banks had the second-longest since 1940: 3,223, less than 40 percent of Ripken's total. Every long streak included games in which a player pinch hit, pinch ran or appeared only as a defensive replacement. Some players kept their streaks going with what can only be des...