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The Worland High School Boy's Swim Team were in Powell on Friday and Saturday. Friday was the Powell Triangular with Douglas and Powell. The Warriors would finish second with 340 points. Senior Traeton Quigley won the 500 Yard Free and the 50 Yard Free. Senior Gavin McEndree won the 100 Yard Back and Junior Gage…
Longtime resident's teammates included Tommy Lasorda, Billy Martin and Minnie Minoso.
Cubs who drove in all of team's 5 or more runs By JohnW53 on May 31, 2021, 6:32am CDT + On Sept. 16, he did it again. No Cub has done it since. Sosa drove in 6 runs as the Cubs won those games, and they were the only runs the Cubs scored. No Cub ever has had 7 or more RBI in a game in which the Cubs scored exactly that number of runs. Besides Sosa, only 6 of the Cubs' runs. But they lost that game, 16-6, on April 29, 1960. .......... 5 runs, all driven in by a single player. The first of those players was Bill Nicholson, at Cincinnati on April 26, 1942.
Hitters' streaks of homering in consecutive games By JohnW53 on May 8, 2021, 4:48am CDT + Only the Yankees (16,350) and Giants (14,804) have hit more. The Cubs have hit at least 1 homer in as many as 17 consecutive games. They have homered in at least 10 straight games 5 games in a row. Intriguingly, neither have the Braves, who had hit the fourth most total homers, 14,047. Nor have the Dodgers, Phillies or Reds. That makes 5 of the 8 National League teams that existed before 1962. The record for all 5 teams is 5. ... On the other hand, the Padres had a streak of 6 by Graig Net...
Cubs' oldest position players, pitchers By JohnW53 on Apr 12, 2021, 6:22am CDT + Who was the oldest in the Modern Era? Who was their oldest pitcher? Who was their oldest pitcher in his final season? Each of those questions has a different answer. .......... Nearly 125 years after his final game, Cap Anson remains the oldest player in franchise history to appear anywhere other than on the mound. The last game of his remarkable, 27-season career -- No. 2,524 overall and No. 2,277 for Chicago -- came on Oct. 3, 1897. That day, Anson was 45 years, 169 days old. He had been 19 days p...