Retired fire lieutenant to be remembered as positive man who believed in fairness, equality
‘Whenever there was a crisis going on, he was there to rescue save the day’
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Jacksonville remembers Lieutenant Jimmy Lee Walls
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Members of the community gathered Saturday to honor the life of a retired lieutenant with Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department.
Jimmy Lee Walls died May 29.
His funeral was held Saturday, to remember his 25 years of service.
Walls was born in Alabama and lived in New York, but his family said he made Jacksonville home, too.
On March 11, 1988, Walls began his career with Jacksonville Fire and Rescue. It was a job that made sense for a man who cared about everyone, his daughters said.
Through Saturday, the Cubs have played 18,751 games since the Modern Era began in 1901.
In only 10 of them has a player driven in 8 or more runs.
The first to do so was Heinie Zimmerman, in 1911.
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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.
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5 runs, all driven in by a single player.
The first of those players was
Bill Nicholson, at Cincinnati on April 26, 1942.
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 Most Valuable Player for the second straight season. But he was only third in offensive WAR (7.8), trailing Hank Aaron (9.1) and Eddie Mathews (8.4).
Odd winning formula: Make more runs than hits! By JohnW53 on Apr 29, 2021, 7:20am CDT +
In 4 of their first 24 games this season, the Cubs have scored more runs than they made hits.
They won 2 of the games, 4-3 vs. the Pirates and 16-4 vs. the Mets. They lost to the Pirates, 5-3, and to the Braves, 8-7.
In the win over the Mets, they made 13 hits. In none of the others did they make more than 6.
I wondered if that had been typical of the Cubs throughout the Modern Era. I suspected that they rarely won when their hit total was lower than their run total, especially when that total was in single digits.