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The Cubs will start tonight's game against the Brewers needing to score only 8 more runs to become the first team to reach 100,000 since the start of the National League in 1876.
Their 99,992 are 1.
In the History Watch, posted as a comment in each Game Preview, I have been documenting where the 2021 Cubs rank in team history in total hits to that point in the season.
For a long stretch, they.
14 Cubs form chain that spans 145 seasons By JohnW53 on Dec 20, 2020, 7:35am CST 1
Some years ago, an enterprising baseball historian figured out how to make a chain of just 9 players that spanned the history of Major League Baseball.
It began with Harry Wright of the 1869 Cincinnati Reds, the first professional team. In his final season, another player was a rookie, and it that player s final season, a third player was a rookie, and so on to the current season.
(I hunted for the story online but could not find it.)
I wondered how few players it would take to do something similar using only Cubs, and beginning in 1876, the first year of the National League.
Merkle s boner . . . as a Cub By JohnW53 on Dec 18, 2020, 6:28am CST +
Nearly a century after he played his final game, many baseball fans still know the name of Fred Merkle.
As a 19-year-old rookie, he was on first base with 2 outs in the bottom of the ninth inning of a crucial game late in the 1908 season between the host Giants and the Cubs, who were neck-and-neck for first place in the National League.
When the next batter smacked a clean single, a runner from third dashed home, scoring the tie-breaking run, as thousands of fans swarmed the field.
Merkle, wary of the fans, did not run to second base, but dashed toward the safety of the clubhouse, located beyond center field a customary act in that era.