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Cubs oldest position players, pitchers By JohnW53 on Apr 12, 2021, 6:22am CDT +
Who was the oldest in the Modern Era?
Who was their oldest pitcher?
Who was their oldest pitcher in his final season?
Each of those questions has a different answer.
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Nearly 125 years after his final game,
Cap Anson remains the oldest player in franchise history to appear anywhere other than on the mound.
The last game of his remarkable, 27-season career No. 2,524 overall and No. 2,277 for Chicago came on Oct. 3, 1897. That day, Anson was
45 years, 169 days old.
He had been 19 days past his 19th birthday when he played his first game, for the Rockford Forest Citys, on May 6, 1871.
When Cubs made MOST hits in first 7 games By JohnW53 on Apr 9, 2021, 7:11am CDT +
32, in their first 7 games of any season of the Modern Era.
Their previous low was
But they have a better record than in the season in which they made the
MOST hit in their first 7 games!
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OPENING DAY HIT PARADE
The Cubs began the 1954 season on Tuesday, April 13, at St. Louis. They spotted the Cardinals a first-inning run, they tallied 2 each in the second and third, followed by 6 in the sixth. The final score was 13-4.
Dee Fondy and Clyde McCullough each had 4 hits for the Cubs, combining for half their total of 16. Six went for extra bases, including homers by McCullough, Gene Baker and pitcher Paul Minner.
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Roy Exum: Our Flag At Iwo Jima Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - by Roy Exum
Roy Exum
This morning marks the 76
th anniversary of the sun coming up on Mount Suribachi and, as it lit the dawn, every warrior in one of the most merciless battles in the Pacific theater could see the American flag on the crest of the 554-feet-tall hill. The battle to secure the island was perhaps the most intense fighting in World War II.
Almost 7,000 Marines and Navy Seabees were killed on the heavily fortified 8-square-mile island between February 19 and March 26 in 1945 while the Japanese lost approximately - get this number 28,000. (Remember, in just five weeks!) Only 214 of the enemy were able to surrender after five weeks of horrors, with as many as 3,000 Japanese hiding in the 11 miles of tunnels on the three-by-five-mile island.