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Since 1876, the Cubs have lost 10,635 games.
They have lost 3,236 of them, about one third, by 1 run, an average of just under 22 per year.
Sunday's loss at Philadelphia was their 487th by a.
He was an All-American basketball player at Duke in the early 1950s, setting a single-season NCAA scoring record, before becoming an MVP shortstop for the Pirates.