Second in a series of posts about home runs hit by Cubs that are not to be found in baseball's official records.
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From Opening Day of 1876 through Aug. 30, 1910, the Cubs played 4,387 r.
In the quarter century between 1876, first year of the National League, and 1900, the Cubs hit 998 home runs about 40 per year.
142 of them, 1 in 7, came in a single season, 1884, when they.
You may have read or heard that the amazing catch, throw and relay by the Braves against the Phillies on Monday night was the first 8-5-3 double play ever to end a post-season game.
Let's go a bit.
Second of 2 posts about Cubs who reached base on dropped fly balls
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Since Opening Day of 1914, first season for which baseball-reference.com has searchable play-level data, the Cubs.
The Cubs tied a pair of obscure team records in Saturday's gut-wrenching 7-6 loss at Arizona.
In the 13th inning, with score knotted at 5, Ian Happ came to bat with nobody out, Yan Gomes on third.