In all of Cubs history, just five players have ever had six hits in a single game.
Here are those five players and the games where they accomplished this feat. Overall, it’s been done 150 times in MLB history, most recently in 2018.
As you can see, Don Kessinger’s six-hit game happened 50 years ago today, June 17, 1971.
The game was significant even before it began. Burt Hooton, who the Cubs had selected in the first round of the draft’s then “secondary phase” (second overall) just one week earlier, made his major-league debut, starting the game against the Cardinals.