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Game Notes

Game Notes, 10/02/2025 – Wild Card Day 3

Roger Schlueter | Friday, October 3, 2025

The 1929 Cubs featured a quartet of fearsome right-handed hitters, a foursome of .500 or better sluggers named Rogers Hornsby (slugged .679 that year), Hack Wilson (.618), Riggs Stephenson (.562) and Kiki Cuyler (.532).  They all posted on-base percentages above .400 that year, Wilson’s .345 batting average was the lowest […]


Game Notes

Game Notes – 09/09/2025

Roger Schlueter | Wednesday, September 10, 2025

In 1978, J.R. Richard became just the fourth different right-handed hurler since 1893 to rocket to 300 strikeouts:  a 303-K campaign that placed him alongside Walter Johnson (1910, 1912), Bob Feller (1946) and Nolan Ryan (1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977).  It was an explosive outcome for the 28-year-old who, before […]


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