Trey Mancini's line in the box score of the Cubs' 10-4 win over the Cardinals last Wednesday was:
1 AB, 3 R, 1 H, 0 RBI
Mancini walked with 1 out in the second and was stranded at second.
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He grew up playing cricket in the British colony of the Bahamas. Andre Rodgers had never even seen a game of baseball before he went to tryout for the San Francisco Giants minor league farm system in 1954. He was signed immediately. Rodgers became a minor league superstar before playing eleven seasons in the major leagues with the Giants, the Cubs and the Pirates. Rodgers lived in two worlds, the violent racial struggles of America in the fifty's and sixties and the sleepy laid back British Colony known as the Bahamas. Rodgers led by example as his gentle disposition taught many of his American counterparts how to deal with racism while successfully navigating the baseball fields of America.
Sammy Sosa hit the most home runs, 545, of any Cub.
But he never hit the team's first of the season, something that 106 other Cubs have done since 1876, first year of the National League.
Sosa.
During their 147 seasons in the National League, 1876-2022, the Cubs used exactly 2,200 different players.
853, or 38.8 percent, hit at least 1 home run as a Cub: 753 position players and 100.