 | irishgit (138)
07/05/2007 | Even allowing for the fact that these guys peaked in the deadest years of the dead ball era, they were a phenomenally successful staff.
Led by Three Finger Brown, a top flight Hall of Famer, they had several other strong pitchers, notably Ed Reulbach.
This, and not the clubs relatively anaemic hitting, was the reason the Cubs virtually owned the National league in the latter half of the 1900 decade.
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 | oscargamblesfro (76)
06/29/2007 | Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown, a HOF'er, was an outstanding pitcher, a true ace, and one of the great hurlers of the period. He got his name after an accident on a farm in his youth in Indiana, which mangled his hand but gave him an advantage when he threw the ball by giving him a very unusual delivery that hitters couldn't deal with effectively. The team also featured an underrated guy who was very good named Ed Reulbach, and some effective but lesser lights like Carl Lundgren, Orval Overall- who sounds like some kind of character from 'Hee Haw' or something, and Jack Taylor. The Cubs staff put up some ridiculously low ERA's even considering that it was a dead ball era. A great team that won 2 Series and 2 pennants and AVERAGED 104 wins a year from 1906-1910. The one year they didn't win the pennant, 1909, they still won 104 games... a club with a first rate staff by the standards of the era.
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