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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…

Casey at the Bat is an 1888 poem by Ernest L. Thayer, who wrote for the Harvard Lampoon under the…

Late in the preseason and on into the regular season, there was a debate of sorts over whether Pete Crow-Armstrong,…

The Cubs have cleverly managed to offset the expectations created by two 10-game winning streaks by losing 10 straight —…

Sometimes things just don’t happen the way you’d like them to. Here’s the story of a couple of Cubs who…

One of our readers astutely corrected my thinking on something, and as that something was to be part of this…

This is the third of four pieces on MLB’s Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, I think. The next will look at…

The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System almost figured big-time in Sunday’s game. The concept was ably used by Diamondbacks batter…

Duane PesiceApril 23, 2026

The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) is in its first year, and I predict that the stats will be a big…