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Cubs historical sleuthing: 1950s edition

Let’s head back a few decades for this sleuthing opportunity.

Getty Images’ caption for this photo reads:

Rhodes of the Giants was tagged out at home on Al Dark’s grounder to Bilko in the 8th inning of the nightcap of a twin bill with the cubs today. Throw went from Bilko to Cubs catcher McCullough. Ump Donatelli calls the out. Giants dropped the second game, 3-0, after taking the opener, 7-6.

Given the players listed and the scores of the game, this wasn’t too hard to find.

It happened in the bottom of the eighth inning of the second game of a doubleheader between the Cubs and Giants at the Polo Grounds in New York, Thursday, September 9, 1954.