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2021 is the 75th anniversary of 1946, a year in which the Cubs were defending National League champions and posted a winning percentage they would not surpass until 1967. In 1945, they had been 9. ....
Cubs short starts, then scoreless relief By JohnW53 on May 3, 2021, 4:15am CDT + After Saturday s game at Cincinnati, the Cubs bullpen was roundly praised and deservedly so. Five relievers combined to shut out the Reds for 5 innings, during which the Cubs turned a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 victory. Davies has pitched no more than 4 innings in 5 of his 6 starts this year. Kyle Hendricks has done so 3 times; Jake Arrieta, Alec Mills and Trevor Williams once each, leaving the Cubs total at 11 such games. They have had 25 per season. 434 of those games 14.2 percent, or 1 of every 7 Cubs relievers did not allow a run the rest of the way. ....
Who is the oldest living Cub? By JohnW53 on Jan 8, 2021, 3:07am CST + In June of 2014, the last year before the Cubs current Renaissance, the seventh-inning stretch on WGN was sung by Lennie Merullo. Merullo was the last living member of the Cubs 1945 World Series. He was 97 at the time, and 98 when he died on May 30, 2015. Merullo, a shortstop, played his entire career with the Cubs: 639 games, over 7 seasons, from 1941 through 1947. He had a career WAR of 1.4 and an OPS+ of 69. .... When I came across Merullo s name again recently, I wondered: Who is the oldest living Cub today? The answer: 95 years and 195 days. ....
share-square-1081114 CHICAGO The flags that fly atop the foul poles at Wrigley Field feature the most recognizable numbers in Cubs history digits no player will don again on the North Side. There is No. 10 for Ron Santo and No. 14 for Ernie Banks. Ryne Sandberg s No. 23 ripples in the Lake Michigan breeze, along with No. 26 for Billy Williams and No. 31 for both Fergie Jenkins and Greg Maddux. They took those numbers to great heights, but what about the other numbers worn throughout the Cubs long history? What follows are our picks for the most notable player to wear each jersey number in team history. Maybe he was the most famous, the best or simply the most memorable. In some cases, there was a long list to choose from, and it was a difficult task. In others, the choice was obvious. And in a few situations, only a handful of players (or perhaps just one) wore the number on his back. ....
14 Cubs form chain that spans 145 seasons By JohnW53 on Dec 20, 2020, 7:35am CST 1 Some years ago, an enterprising baseball historian figured out how to make a chain of just 9 players that spanned the history of Major League Baseball. It began with Harry Wright of the 1869 Cincinnati Reds, the first professional team. In his final season, another player was a rookie, and it that player s final season, a third player was a rookie, and so on to the current season. (I hunted for the story online but could not find it.) I wondered how few players it would take to do something similar using only Cubs, and beginning in 1876, the first year of the National League. ....