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Paul Sullivan: Pete Crow-Armstrong crashes Cubs’ 150th anniversary party with historic day at Wrigley Field

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CHICAGO — The first Chicago Cubs-Cincinnati Reds game in the National League was the start of a long and crazy rivalry. The Cubs, then nicknamed the White Stockings, scored seven runs in the top of the ninth inning of an 11-6 win on April 29, 1876. “This game was by no means the perfection of fielding,” the Chicago Tribune reported the next day. “But it was nevertheless one of the finest games ...

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