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Cubs historical sleuthing: Shawon Dunston edition

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Shawon Dunston #12 of the Chicago Cubs gets caught stealing against the Houston Astros during a Major League Baseball game circa 1988 at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.

All right, that shouldn’t be too hard to find... a caught-stealing against Dunston in 1988 against the Astros.

Except there wasn’t one. And Dunston wasn’t caught stealing by Houston at Wrigley Field any time between 1985 and 1989. After 1989, as I have previously noted, the Cubs switched back to belts on the home uniform pants.

So this has to be something else — perhaps a single that Dunston was trying to stretch into a double, and got thrown out?