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).
Ernie Banksâ 500th Home Run was Highlight of Eventful 1970 Cub Season, Says Author of New Book From: Mr. Cub Ernie Banks 500
th home run was the highlight of the very eventful 1970 Chicago Cubs baseball season, says William S. Bike, author of the new book
The Forgotten 1970 Chicago Cubs: Go and Glow, recently published by The History Press. The anniversary of that historic homer is May 12.
           It s hard to pick a number one moment from a season that saw the Cubs put five players on the field who would go on to make the Hall of Fame and the closest pennant race featuring the Cubs in the last 80 years, but the one that Cub fans rememberâeven if they weren t born yetâis Mr. Cub s 500
Games-played streaks, Part 1: Billy Williams By JohnW53 on Apr 25, 2021, 7:03am CDT +
In some, the player rarely took an inning off, let alone missed a game.
Early in Cal Ripken Jr. s record streak of 2,632 games, he played 8,264 straight innings. The second-longest such stretch in the Modern Era is just 4,620. Ernie Banks had the second-longest since 1940: 3,223, less than 40 percent of Ripken s total.
Every long streak included games in which a player pinch hit, pinch ran or appeared only as a defensive replacement.
Some players kept their streaks going with what can only be described as gimmicks.
In the 1,427th of Lou Gehrig s 2,130 games, at Detroit in July 1934, he was listed as the Yankees shortstop and batted leadoff. He singled, then gave way to a pinch runner.
By
Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 09, 2021 at 9:53 AM
A Michigan National Guard soldier patrols in Afghanistan alongside an Afghan soldier and a Latvian ally. Now the Army is struggling to refocus on defending allies like Latvia against great-power threats such as Russia.
WASHINGTON: The Army is still struggling to reorient itself on great power threats, said the commander of the infantry and armor training center at Fort Benning.
Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe
After two decades of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and Iraq, “we’ve got to get east of the Vistula and north of the Han,” said Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe, referring to rivers in eastern Poland and central Korea respectively. “We have to get onto the map sheets where our near-peer competitors may operate against us – and, therefore, we’ve got to take our own trainers out of what they’re comfortable with, [i.e.] the Middle East map sheet of your choice.
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