On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past. Here’s a handy Cubs timeline, to help you follow the various narrative paths.

“Maybe I called it wrong, but it’s official.” — Tom Connolly, HoF Umpire.

Today in baseball history: • 1845 – The first known box score appears in the New York Morning News a month after the first set of rules are written by Alexander Cartwright and some of his fellow New York Knickerbockers. (2) • 1910 – After three straight defeats and trailing the Philadelphia Athletics, 3-2, in the ninth inning of Game 5, the Chicago Cubs tie the score, then win, 4-3, in 10 innings for their only victory in the World Series. Three Finger Brown, in relief, is the winning pitcher ove

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