Hugh Fullerton was not just a sports writer.
One afternoon, he was a hitter; another, a surgeon as described in these excerpts from a column of his reminiscences titled "Jealousy Among Baseball.
Many aspects of baseball have been part of the game for so long that they are taken for granted.
Case in point: the "batter's eye," the area beyond the center field fence, usually dark green, that.
Following are some more tales of unusual events during games played by the Cubs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as told by Hugh Fullerton in Sunday editions of the Chicago Tribune in.
After tonight, the Cubs will have played a grand total of 8 games at Baltimore since interleague play began in 1997.
That is as many as they once played there in a single season: 1897, when the.