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Looking Back at Cracker Jack’s 100th Anniversary
The Cubs celebrated the 100th anniversary of Cracker Jack on June 16, 1993 with a party at Wrigley Field that…
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Cubs Might as Well Be Chopped Liver
Last night, I confess that I switched off the game when it was apparent that the bats hadn’t been shipped…
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The Ferris Wheel Goes Round Again
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” —…
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Former Cubs Great Frank ‘Wildfire’ Schulte Was Baseball’s First 20/20/20/20 Player
Right fielder Frank “Wildfire” Schulte was born 9/17/1882 in Cochecton, NY, and died 10/2/1949 in Oakland, Ca. He was 67…
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Mighty Casey Still Batting as Mudville Celebrates Anniversary
Casey at the Bat is an 1888 poem by Ernest L. Thayer, who wrote for the Harvard Lampoon under the…
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Who Is Cubs’ Face Right Now?
Late in the preseason and on into the regular season, there was a debate of sorts over whether Pete Crow-Armstrong,…
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Frustration Rising, Expectation Falling as Cubs’ Skid Reaches Double Digits
The Cubs have cleverly managed to offset the expectations created by two 10-game winning streaks by losing 10 straight —…
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Happy Birthday to Fritzie Connally and Scott McClain, Two Cubs Who Could Have Been Contenders
Sometimes things just don’t happen the way you’d like them to. Here’s the story of a couple of Cubs who…
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Umps Still Need to Study Zone with ABS Reducing Ejections, Increasing Walks
One of our readers astutely corrected my thinking on something, and as that something was to be part of this…
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Carson Kelly Is ABS Monster, Showing Advanced Feel for Challenges
This is the third of four pieces on MLB’s Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, I think. The next will look at…
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