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Mordecai Brown
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Cubs 1906-1910 – The Greatest Ever
The 1906-10 Chicago Cubs: The Best
Team in National League History
Once upon a diamond, the Chicago Cubs dominated the world. They were the best team in baseball not just for the one incredible year of 1906, but for five years, winning nearly 70 percent of their games, four National League pennants, and two World Series. Let's go to the bullet points.
In 1906, the Cubs won 116 games and posted the highest season winning percentage in history; 116-36, .763, finishing 20 games ahead of the New York Giants, coming off back to back pennants of their own, whose 96 wins in any other year would have had them in contention at the very least. Chicago moved into first place for good May 9 and was virtually unbeatable the last two months of the season. From the beginning of August until the season ended on October 7, the Cubs went 50-8, running off winning streaks of 11, 14, and 12 games. Their longest losing streak of the year was three games in May. Prior to the World Series, the last time they lost back to back games had been on July 23-24.