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Third in a series of posts about home runs hit by Cubs that are not to be found in baseball's official records.
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From 1876 through 1909, Cubs hitters lost only 1 home run when a game.
Third in a series of posts about the Cubs' longest streaks of hitting a home run in consecutive games.
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The previous posts described the evolution of the team-record streak for hitting.
A previous post, prompted by an untimely error by Ian Happ, examined fly balls dropped by Cubs in the outfield.
Prominent in that post was an account of the ball muffed by Brant Brown at Milwaukee.
On Sunday, July 2, 1961, the Cubs did something they never had done in the Modern Era, have not done since and almost certainly never will do again.
As 18,447 looked on at Wrigley Field, Cubs.