19th-Century Baseball Deserves Equal Time
On April 22, 1980, Chicago Cub shortstop Ivan DeJesus became only the tenth player in that team’s history to hit for the cycle, collecting a single, a double, a triple, and a home run during a 16-12 win over St. Louis. The following morning, the writeup in the Chicago Sun-Times listed every Cub player of the so-called “modern” […]