The successive version of this newsletter is counting the 50 greatest baseball clubs ever (A/k/a is the 50 best), and here is my new book ranking The best team in baseball. Today's entries are concentrated on No. 44 of the Chicago Cubs in 1907.
Here is a quick boilerplate note attached to each story I have in this series:
I compiled the best 50 by analyzing 2,544 major league teams from 1903 to 2024. (The historical percentile for a given club is the percentage of its other 2,543 teams.)
Please refer to my book to explain my TS calculations. The book also offers a separate breakdown of the best and worst clubs every decade, along with a comprehensive overview of the best 50 (including a position-by-position lineup and more information than you will find in this newsletter), and a similar summary of the 10 worst teams of all time.
Now enter today's profile.
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Team: Chicago cubs in 1907
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Team Score: 85.235 points
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Ranking History: 44 of 2,544
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Historical percentile: 98.31%
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Seasonal record: 107-45 (.704)
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Season position: No. 1 in the National League
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Final identity: World Champion
The Chicago Cubs entered in 1907 with an unfinished business. They dominated the National League in 1906 and scored a major league record with 116 victories (they are still shared with the 2001 Seattle Mariners). However, they somehow threw the '06 World Series to Crosstown White Sox, a boxing team nicknamed “The Unman's Miracle.” Manager Little Bear Frank Opportunity Disturbed. He spits and says, “One thing I will never believe is that socks are better than bears.”
Chance's team aims to carry out redemption in 1907. It won 24 of the first 29 games. However, this huge start matches the New York Giants, who scored the same record with a 24-5 record. Is the bear at risk of being frustrated again?
The answer was in early June, when the Giants’ three games brought Chicago to another NL championship. The Cubs finished 73-36 in the rest of the game, and ended up taking 17 games in the lead of Pittsburgh’s second-place lead. The Giants finished fourth with the defender 25.5 games.
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The Cubs lost to the White Sox in the opening game of the 1906 World Series and suffered a similar shock in 1907. Detroit's Detroit Tigers led 3-1 in the eighth inning of Game 1. Chicago grabbed the claw at the last minute and ran two runs at the bottom of the ninth inning. The score remains tied 3-3 when the darkness forces the referee to force the referee to stop the game after 12 innings. Such games will only be suspended today, but the 1907 rules have vanished it from books.
After intimate calls, the pups breathe more easily. Their up-force pitching claims to have allowed the Tigers to play only three games in the rest of the series. After Frank's chance club won the second and third races, Frank's chance racing became more and more arrogant. He told reporters: “I don't think there is anything right now.” He was right. Zhongbu BrownIn Game 5, seven hits hit a sweep.
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In 1907, Chicago batsmen did not arouse fear in the hearts of national league pitchers. “The lack of a great batting marks a surge in the Cubs’ own league games,” admits Warren Brown, a long-time Chicago sports writer. No one hit the .300 at the club, and the entire lineup hit only 13 home runs, the second highest for any NL team.
The most reliable player in Frank Chance's daily lineup is opportunity himself. He led the Cubs with a batting rate of 0.293, and he anchored the double-game combination – “tinker to evers to Chance” – poet Franklin P. Adams for immortality. Shortstop Joe Tinker and the second baseman Johnny Evers In 1946, there will be an opportunity to join Cooperstown. “Almost single, the poem later brought these three players into the holy holy place of baseball,” former commissioner Ford Frick wrote in 1973. Quality Score Suggested Opportunity (26 points) is a marginal candidate for onboarding, especially when his management record is added to the scale. But Tinker (21) and Evers (12) are horrible choices.
Pitching was the secret to the Cubs' success in 1907. Their five starters won the running average among the six NL leaders, Jack Pfiester (1.15) and Carl Lundgren (1.17). OverallIn the 1906 trade, it was won from Cincinnati and won 23 games. Mordecai Brown won 20 wins. A pair of childhood accidents left Brown with his right hand (and the famous “Three Fingers” nickname) but he still threw a sharp curve ball. “This is the most deceptive and destructive court I’ve faced.” Ty Cobb.
