The 1961 American League season was unique because for the first time since the turn of the century the league was not made up of 8 teams. Not only did the Senators move from Washington to Minnesota, but the league added 2 expansion teams, the Los Angeles Angels and the “new” Washington Senators..
Starting today and going until the weekend before pitchers and catchers report, you’ll find a weekly post highlighting a team we considered among the best in Twins history, Senators not included. (Sorry, Walter Johnson .) The methodology was simple: I asked our writers to rank the ten greatest te.
The Cubs have played 19,054 games since the start of the Modern Era in 1901.
1,831 of them have gone into extra innings, a little less than 10 percent.
The Cubs tied 352 of those 1,831 games in.