Showing posts with label Frank Chance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Chance. Show all posts
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Windows in Time: The Cubs Decade-by-Decade

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The Cubs of the early twentieth century featured such legendary names as Frank Chance , Joe Tinker , Johnny Evers , and Mordecai Brown . As ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Cubs in the Postseason

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After their back-to-back world championships in 1907 and 1908, the Cubs did not win another postseason series of any kind until 2003, and, o...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

The All-Chicago World Series of 1906 (Part 2)

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For the first four games of the 1906 World Series, the White Sox “Hitless Wonders” were true to form, with just 11 hits in 113 at-bats fo...
Monday, August 24, 2020

The All-Chicago World Series of 1906 (Part 1)

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      The Cubs and White Sox took divergent paths to the first single-city World Series in 1906. The Cubs blasted out of the gate and neve...
Monday, August 17, 2020

"We Are the Ship, All Else the Sea"

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This past weekend, every player in Major League Baseball wore a patch on his uniform to commemorate the centennial of the Negro National Lea...
Friday, July 1, 2011

When Cubs vs. Sox Really Counted, Part 1

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     1906 WORLD SERIES ACTION AT WEST SIDE GROUNDS.           The Cubs and White Sox took divergent paths to the first single-city Worl...
Friday, September 24, 2010

The Merkle Game

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FRED MERKLE      One hundred and two years ago yesterday, on September 23, 1908, the Cubs and the Giants were in a virtual tie for first ...