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  • Orioles 4, Cubs 3: Those leadoff walks will just kill you
    • Orioles 4, Cubs 3: Those leadoff walks will just kill you
    Matthew Boyd had another nice game, but it was ruined by a bullpen meltdown. | Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images The Cubs were going along just fine until a disastrous eighth inning. The headline is what baseball folks will tell you. Walks are going to happen, but leadoff walks almost always lead to bad things. That’s what happened to the Cubs in the eighth inning of Saturday’s game, af...2025
  • Today in White Sox History: August 2
    • Today in White Sox History: August 2
    On this day 89 years ago, Jackie Hayes capped the second-biggest comeback in White Sox history with a 12th-inning single. | Sporting News via Getty Images Down 10-1, the South Siders rally to win, and sweep a doubleheader 1901 A 7-0 win over Detroit made it three straight shutouts for the White Sox. The Tigers were the victims of all three whitewashes: Clark Griffith’s 2-0 win on July 31, ...2025
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  • Today in White Sox History: June 30
    • Today in White Sox History: June 30
    A mere 21 years after his final pro at-bat, on this day in 1993, Minnie Miñoso threw out what turned out to be his final first pitch for the White Sox, in 2014. | David Banks/Getty Images Minnie gets one final at-bat 1922 After a broken finger in a car accident delayed the start of his season, Ted Blankenship finally joined the White Sox to start his rookie season. The phenom had allowed j...2025
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  • Nico Hoerner is having an unusual season
    • Nico Hoerner is having an unusual season
    Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images He hasn’t homered, but is still a good run producer. Nico Hoerner isn’t a power hitter, not at all, but the last three seasons has been good for at least a few baseballs that left the yard: Ten in 2022, nine in 2023 and seven last year. Through 61 team games this year, in which he’s played in 57 (all starts), Nico has not homered — at all. Ne...2025
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  • Freebies and almost freebies
    • Freebies and almost freebies
    Like most people in this country, I am not made of money. While going for my daily walks or driving around town, I look at the shiny beomoths giants passing for cars on the local road and wonder who can afford that. There are so many of them now, maybe they are made of money? But little guys like me -- who drive a modest CRV -- must pick our moments for spending cash. Budgets and all that. An...2025
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  • Today in Cubs history: An Opening Day for the ages
    • Today in Cubs history: An Opening Day for the ages
    Ernie Banks | Getty Images The Cubs and Cardinals fought for more than four hours... and in the end, neither team won. Monday, April 12, 1965 was the season opener for the Cubs and Cardinals at Wrigley Field. When it began, both teams’ records were, of course, 0-0. And when it ended, those records were... the same. Let me explain. Larry Jackson had an outstanding 1964 season — 24-11, 3.14 ...2025

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  • • Today in Cubs history: An Opening Day for the ages
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  • 2024 MLB Heroes and Goats: The Astros and Kyle Tucker
    • 2024 MLB Heroes and Goats: The Astros and Kyle Tucker
    Photo by Jack Gorman/Getty Images A look at the newest Cub and his 2024 team through the lens of WPA. With another huge addition to the 2025 Cubs, Heroes and Goats turns its attention to the 2024 Astros. Even before Kyle Tucker was traded to the Cubs, that team had some players that have Cubs connections. We’ve already looked earlier this offseason at an early season game between the Guar...2024
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  • Baseball history unpacked, July 17
    • Baseball history unpacked, July 17
    Happy birthday. Don Kessinger! | Photo by: 1970 SPX/Diamond Images via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday. Don Kessinger! The first pay-per-view game and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful p...2024
  • Modern baseball, the ‘old days,’ and how starting pitching and the game have changed
    • Modern baseball, the ‘old days,’ and how starting pitching and the game have changed
    Fergie Jenkins prepares during Spring Training in the 1960s | Getty Images For pitching, it’s as simple as velocity, spin rate and much better hitters. And, a thought exercise about players of old and players of today and how they differ. The All-Star break isn’t just a few days to celebrate the sport by playing an exhibition game and having a home-run contest. It’s also a few days in the ...2024
  • Today in White Sox History: June 30
    • Today in White Sox History: June 30
    After a broken finger injury delay, phenom hurler Ted Blankenship finally joined the White Sox on this day, 102 years ago. A native southerner finally makes it to the South Side 1922 After a broken finger in a car accident delayed the start of his season, Ted Blankenship finally joined the White Sox to start his rookie season. The phenom had allowed just 44 runs over 140 innings for the C...2024
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  • Baseball history unpacked, June 17
    • Baseball history unpacked, June 17
    Don Kessinger had a day | Photo by: 1970 SPX/Diamond Images via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Dom Kessinger’s perfect day and many other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and ...2024
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  • The 1975 Topps countdown, worst to best (No. 200-181)
    • The 1975 Topps countdown, worst to best (No. 200-181)
     I mentioned on my 1975 buyback milestone post that I was easing up on the chase after reaching 500 buybacks for the set, so I could focus on some other card things.But a few other buybacks trickled in before I made that decision so I'm now at 505 of the 660 cards in buyback form.Here are the last five that arrived from the recent binge:Some good ones there. Happy to get the Dock Ellis out of...2024
  • Cub Tracks’ Astro projection
    • Cub Tracks’ Astro projection
    Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes plus extras, four days a week. Cubs take second game from the visitors on the strength of a Dansby Swanson long ball. We predict a need for brooms in Chicago. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, an...2024
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  • In 1958, Lou Boudreau predicted there would be four major leagues
    • In 1958, Lou Boudreau predicted there would be four major leagues
    Lou Boudreau at Wrigley Field for the 1947 All-Star Game | Bettmann / Contributor And other words of wisdom from the Cubs radio announcer, 65 years ago. I was researching something recently — and honestly I can’t remember what it was — when I came across an article “By Lou Boudreau, as told to Jack Rosenberg” from the Chicago Tribune of April 13, 1958. At the time, Boudreau was not quite 4...2023
  • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1970
    • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1970
    J. C. Martin catching for the Cubs | Getty Images Things were not getting any better in the front office. After the disappointment of 1969, the Cubs looked to improve the team in that pre-free agency era by trade. The first one was the Johnny Callison deal, made late in 1969. That one — nope. Part of the problem was that by 1969, Leo Durocher was so disliked around baseball that no one wan...2023
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Timeline

  • 2025
    "In more modern times, in the expansion era the most RBI by a Cubs player without a home run is 46, by Don Kessinger in 1975."

  • 2024
    "The grandson of six-time All-Star Don Kessinger, he showed off excellent…"

  • 2023
    "Gold Glove Award, joining Ernie Banks in 1960, Don Kessinger in 1969-70 and Javier Báez in 2020."

  • 2022
    "Randy Hundley and Don Kessinger had their first full years as regular players."

  • 2016
    "Don Kessinger, Cubs for most of his 16 seasons, 2,078 career games over 16 seasons (1964-1979)."

  • 2015
    ""Ernie was exactly what you saw," said Don Kessinger, a shortstop who played with Banks in the 1960s."

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  • • Today in White Sox History: August 2
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  • • Astros DFA Grae Kessinger
    After officially announcing the Christian Walker signing earlier today, the Astros have designated infielder Grae Kessinger for assignment to open a spot for Walker on the 40-man roster (per Chandler Rome of The Athletic). Kessinger, 27, was Houston’s second-round pick in the 2019 draft. The grandson of six-time All-Star Don Kessinger, he showed off excellent…...2024
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  • • 2024 MLB Heroes and Goats: The Astros and Kyle Tucker
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  • Here are some players the Cubs let go who might have helped them win in 1969
    • Here are some players the Cubs let go who might have helped them win in 1969
    Ernie Banks (left) and Tony Taylor working out at Spring Training in 1958 | Getty Images Even more evidence of how poorly run the team was back then. The 1969 Cubs are a fabled team, perhaps the most loved group of players in MLB history that never won anything. They had four core players who became Hall of Famers — Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Ron Santo and Fergie Jenkins — and several ot...2024
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  • Today in White Sox History: October 19
    • Today in White Sox History: October 19
    On this day 52 years ago, the White Sox acquired one of the worst hitters in their history. Eddie Leon arrives in town, intimidating no one at the plate 1909 Hugh Duffy took over as the fifth White Sox manager of all time, after Billy Sullivan had a disappointing 78-74 year in his one year at the player-manager helm. Just as Sullivan’s defensive genius didn’t serve him particularly well as...2024
  • Today in White Sox History: August 2
    • Today in White Sox History: August 2
    Even more incredible given he had no defensive players on the field behind him, Roy Patterson stretched the White Sox shutout streak to three on this day, 123 years ago. A third straight shutout keeps the South Siders safely in first 1901 A 7-0 win over Detroit made it three straight shutouts for the White Sox. The Tigers were the victims of all three whitewashes: Clark Griffith’s 2-0 win ...2024
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, July 17
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  • • Modern baseball, the ‘old days,’ and how starting pitching and the game have changed
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  • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1995
    • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1995
    Luis Gonzalez | Getty Images These trades were pretty good, but again could have been better if they’d just kept one of the guys they got. 1995 began quietly on MLB’s transaction front, as the players’ strike was not resolved until late March, and then not until after a court injunction and the threat of owners using replacement players. So, too, were Cubs trades quiet for a time. January ...2023

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  • • Today in Cubs history: An Opening Day for the ages
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  • The 1970 Cubs were better than the 1969 Cubs. Why didn’t they win?
    • The 1970 Cubs were better than the 1969 Cubs. Why didn’t they win?
    Jim Hickman scores for the Cubs against the Mets on May 23, 1970 | Photo by James Drake /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images It was another failure, in some ways more frustrating than the fabled ‘69 team. Yesterday, I posted this article about how some players who the Cubs let go for almost nothing in the late 1950s and early 1960s might have helped the 1969 team get over the hump and make...2024
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  • This Day in Braves History: Bases-loaded walk clinches 1999 NL Pennant for Braves
    • This Day in Braves History: Bases-loaded walk clinches 1999 NL Pennant for Braves
    Thank you, Kenny Rogers! Braves Franchise History 1991: The Atlanta Braves fall to the Twins, 5-2 in Game 1 of the World Series. Greg Gagne hit a three-run home run off of Charlie Leibrandt in the fifth inning while Jack Morris picked up the victory. 1999: Kenny Rogers walks Andruw Jones with the bases loaded and one out in the 11th inning to send the Braves to the World Series with a, 10-9 win i...2024
  • • Reflections on the Cubs’ 2022 season
    Photo by @WillByington / www.willbyington.com This year, we hope, was a transition from the bad into the good. One thing I think many have forgotten about the 2022 baseball season is how close we came to losing it — all of it. When the lockout suddenly ended March 10, we were probably only a day or so away from Rob Manfred announcing that more games were going to be “removed from the ...2022

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  • Dansby Swanson, Nico Hoerner and Ian Happ are Gold Glove winners
    • Dansby Swanson, Nico Hoerner and Ian Happ are Gold Glove winners
    Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images This is a Cubs first! Cubs left fielder Ian Happ, second baseman Nico Hoerner and shortstop Dansby Swanson have been named National League Rawlings Gold Glove Award winners at their respective positions. This is the first time the Cubs have had at least three players earn Gold Gloves in a season and the first time the team has been honored with multiple...2023
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  • • Reflections on the Cubs’ 2022 season
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, July 17
    Happy birthday, Don Kessinger | Photo by: 1970 SPX/Diamond Images via Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthdays to Don Kessinger and Lou Boudreau. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of ...2023
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  • • Today in Cubs history: Tony La Russa’s single Cubs appearance
    The longtime MLB manager was a Cub... for one game. This article originally ran three years ago when I was looking for material to publish during the pandemic shutdown. Since today is the 50th anniversary of this game, I thought I’d run it again. Of course, Tony La Russa had an, uh, interesting managerial stint since this article was last published. With a couple of minor changes acknowledging th...2023
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  • • Cubs historical sleuthing: Don Kessinger edition
    Not enough clues, you say? Of course there are! I don’t usually do a lot of sleuthing photos once Spring Training has begun, but I could not resist this one, found on Twitter on Monday. There’s a reason I put that as a link instead of an embed, and I’ll explain why I did that later on. First, that’s obviously Don Kessinger batting at Wrigley Field, and the catcher is a Cardinal. You’re saying, wel...2023
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  • • In 1958, Lou Boudreau predicted there would be four major leagues
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  • • Chicago Cubs vs. Baltimore Orioles preview, Sunday 6/18, 12:05 CT
    David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs go for another three-game sweep! Sunday notes... DOUBLE DIGIT RUN SCORING: The Cubs followed up their 10-3 win on Friday with a 3-2 win yesterday. Since the start of 2000, the Cubs are 130-136 in their next games after having scored at least 10 runs. They were 3-5 in such games this season until the last two series, in which they have gone 3-0, with ...2023
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  • • Chicago Cubs vs. Pittsburgh Pirates preview, Tuesday 6/20, 6:05 CT
    Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images The Cubs go for two in a row in Pittsburgh. Tuesday notes... SHUTTING ‘EM OUT IN PITTSBURGH: Last night’s 8-0 win was the Cubs’ 78th shutout at Pittsburgh since 1901, in 1,191 games there. Only three of those shutouts have been by larger margins: 11-0 in 1908, 10-0 in 1961 and 9-0 in 2021. The Cubs had won four earlier games by 8-0, in 1909, 1922, 19...2023
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  • • Today in White Sox History: August 2
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  • • Nico Hoerner is having an unusual season
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  • Chicago Cubs vs. San Diego Padres preview, Saturday 4/5, 1:20 CT
    • Chicago Cubs vs. San Diego Padres preview, Saturday 4/5, 1:20 CT
    Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images The Cubs go for their fifth straight win. Saturday notes: YOUR FIRST-PLACE CUBS: With their 6-4 record, the Cubs begin today in first place by half a game over the Cardinals (4-3). Last year, the Cubs were not atop the division until April 29, after 29 games, when they were 18-11 and up by half a game. They lost the next day, slipping to second, and n...2025
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  • Chicago Cubs vs. Arizona Diamondbacks preview, Sunday 3/30, 3:10 CT
    • Chicago Cubs vs. Arizona Diamondbacks preview, Sunday 3/30, 3:10 CT
    Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images The Cubs go for the series win. Sunday notes... CHASE FIELD, THE FRIENDLY CONFINES?: With their win last night, the Cubs have won two of three games to begin a series at Arizona for the eighth time in their last nine visits. The only failure was three straight losses in 2023. Their run of success began in 2016, when the Cubs also won the fourth game of a series....2025
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  • • 2024 MLB Heroes and Goats: The Astros and Kyle Tucker
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  • • The 1970 Cubs were better than the 1969 Cubs. Why didn’t they win?
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  • • Here are some players the Cubs let go who might have helped them win in 1969
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  • • Today in White Sox History: August 2
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  • • Modern baseball, the ‘old days,’ and how starting pitching and the game have changed
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, June 17
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  • • The 1970 Cubs were better than the 1969 Cubs. Why didn’t they win?
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  • • Cubs historical sleuthing: Tony Perez edition
    Bettmann / Contributor The Reds Hall of Famer is making a play at third base here. But when? Getty Images says: Cincinnati Reds’ third baseman Tony Perez reaches and grabs grounder hit by Chicago Cubs’ Jim Dickman in the third inning of ball game. Hickman beat the throw to first base. “Dickman” is, obviously, not correct and Getty uses Jim Hickman’s correct name later in the capt...2023

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