Many baseball fans are familiar with the tragic story of Ray Chapman.
The shortstop was in his ninth big league season, all with Cleveland, when was hit by a pitch thrown by Carl Mays of the.
A previous post described an 1886 game in which the Cubs (then known as the White Stockings) received 14 walks.
They won that game, 15-2.
Twenty years later, the Cubs drew 14 walks again and.
Sammy Sosa, with 545 home runs, and Ernie Banks, with 512, head the list of 845 different players who hit at least 1 homer for the Cubs in National League regular-season games from 1876 through.