1969 Cubs Historical Heroes and Goats: Part 2

Getty ImagesIn our last look at the 1969 Cubs, they opened their season by winning five of their first six games. All of those wins were at home and so their three last at bat wins were all walk offs. What an incredibly exciting, and surely mildly exhausting, time to be a Cub fan. We’re back to take a look at the second week of the season. Week two included the final two games of an opening eight-game homestand, the first two road games of the year (in St. Louis), the first off day, and then three games in two days to finish out the week. For those of you who, like me, weren’t alive in that era of baseball, teams used to have a schedule filled with actual doubleheaders and not ones forced by rain.

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