1907 World Champion Chicago Cubs

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1907 World Champion Chicago Cubs

With all the talk in the Chicago newspapers about the Cubs having the franchise’s best start since the 1907 World Championship, I thought it would be a good idea to go back and take a look at this team.

The 1907 season marked the 36th season of the Chicago professional baseball franchise, the 32nd in the National League and the 15th at their home, West Side Grounds. It was the first season that “Cubs” became the team’s official name. In earlier years, they had been known as the White Stockings, the Colts, and the Orphans. The Cubs got off to the best twenty-game start in team history at 16-4, and never looked back. They then swept the Detroit Tigers in the 1907 World Series, four games to none with one tie. Two games were played at the Tigers’ home, Bennett Park.

The 1907 Cubs were a great team, if not as well-known as either the 1906 team, which was upset by the White Sox, known that year as the “Hitless Wonders;” or the 1908 team, which benefited from the disputed “Merkle Game” on their way to the pennant and a World Series championship. Led by Hall-of-Fame manager Frank Chance, they went 107-45 (.704), an amazing 62 games over .500. They won their second-straight pennant, finishing 17 games ahead of the Pirates. The Cubs spent 161 days in first place and were never more than one game out of the lead, and that was on May 22. During the season they put together three seven-game winning streaks and never lost more than four in a row. Their starting pitchers, led by starters Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown (20-6), Orval Overall (23-7), Carl Lundgren (18-7), and Jeff Pfiester (14-9) recorded 33 shutouts; while they were shutout by opposing pitchers 13 times. The Cubs scored 574 runs while allowing 390, a 184 positive run differential. Their infield consisted of the famed trio: “Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance,” plus third baseman Harry Steinfeldt and catcher Johnny Kling. The outfield was solid with Jimmy Sheckard, Jimmy Slagle, and Frank “Wildfire” Schulte. Cub fans (myself included) hope that this year’s team can duplicate the success of their 1907 predecessors!

-Gary Livacari

Photo Credits: All obtained from Google search

Information: From 1907 Chicago Cubs Baseball-Reference page

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