The Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-3 before an estimated crowd of 5,000 on Oct. 1, 1916, then prepared to meet the White Sox in the City Series, the exhibition games that mattered most to Chicagoans. On Sunday, the Cubs beat the Colorado Rockies 4-3 before a crowd of 37,060 and prepared for a season-ending six-game road trip that would decide their postseason.
Second of 2 posts about the life of Charles Kuhn, celebrated groundskeeper for the Cubs during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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On Wednesday, April 22, 1908, Kuhn was involved.