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      1960 7 60 94     1963 7 82 80   1967 3 87 74               Decade  
      1961 7 64 90     1964 8 76 86   1968 3 84 78               Click  
      1962 9 59 103     1965 8 72 90   1969 2 92 70               on Logo  
                  1966 10 59 103                            
                                                       
                                                             
   
  Titles: Top Cubs Players of the Sixties  
  None  
    Pitchers:  
  Ballpark: Dick Ellsworth (20.61) -   50  
  Wrigley Field Ferguson Jenkins (21.61) -   41  
    Larry Jackson (12.69) -   33  
  Team Name: Bob Buhl (9.04) -   29  
  Cubs    Ken Holtzman (9.31) -   28  
    Bill Hands (14.75) -   27  
  Owners:  Glenn Hobbie (2.54) -   21  
  Phillip K Wrigley  Don Cardwell (7.45) -   17  
    Joe Niekro (1.04) -   11  
  General Managers: Phil Regan (4.98) -   10  
  John Holland Lindy McDaniel (6.04) -   10  
    Cal Koonce (5.6) -   9  
  Managers:  
  Charlie Grimm (1960) Catchers:  
  Lou Boudreau (1960) Randy Hundley (12.04) -   30  
  None (1961-1962) Dick Bertell (3.38) -   12  
  Bob Kennedy (1963-1965)    
  Lou Klein (1965) First Basemen:  
  Leo Durocher (1966-1969) Ernie Banks (26.01) -   81  
       
  Hall of Famers: Second Basemen:  
  Ferguson Jenkins Glenn Beckert (11.7) -   20  
  Ernie Banks Ken Hubbs (1.19) -   6  
  Ron Santo      
  Billy Williams ShortStop:  
  Richie Ashburn Don Kessinger (4.41) -   25  
  Lou Brock Andre Rogers (3.84) -   18  
       
  Rookie of the Year:  Third Base:  
  Billy Williams (1961) Ron Santo (57.59) -   89  
  Ken Hubbs (1962)    
    Outfield:  
  MVP Billy Williams (41.09) -   95  
  None Adolfo Phillips (12.17) -   44  
    George Altman (7.68) -   28  
  No Hitters: Lou Brock (3.55) -   19  
  Don Cardwell (1960) Richie Ashburn (4.08) -   10  
  Ken Holtzman (1969)    
    Notable Events:  
  Cy Young:    
  None 1964 - In one of a number of tragedies involving ballplayers trying  
    to pilot their own planes, second baseman Ken Hubbs crashes  
  Notable Events:  his plane into the side of a mountain.  
       
  1960 - The Cubs enter the decade in doormat status. However, the club 1964 - Shortstop Don Kessinger is signed as an amateur free agent.  
  has begun signing some high quality youngsters who will be part of the He is 21. Kessinger had been an All American basketball player at  
  team's return to pennant contention by the latter part of the decade Ole Miss. Donnie makes the big club the same year and goes on to  
  The 1960 roster includes: play the first twelve of his sixteen year career with the Cubs  
  □  Ernie Banks, 29, shortstop    
  □  Ron Santo, 20, third base 1965 - Nineteen year old lefthander Ken Holtzman is drafted  
  □  Tony Taylor, 24, second base in the fourth round of the Amateur draft. He works his way up to   
  □  Billy Williams, 22, outfield the Cubs by the end of the season. After several good years with   
  □  Dick Ellsworth, 20, pitcher Chicago, he's dealt to the A's in 1971 in a quality for quality deal  
  □  Glenn Hobbie, 24, pitcher with centerfielder Rick Monday coming to Chicago  
  □  Don Cardwell, 24, pitcher    
  □  Jim Brewer, 22, pitcher 1966 - In a great trade for the Cubs, they acquire Hall of Fame  
  □  Moe Drabowsky, 24, pitcher righthander Ferguson Jenkins, 23, and fleet centerfielder Adolfo  
    Phillips, 24, for a couple of old pitchers who are at the end of their  
  1960 - One that got away. Lefty reliever Jim Brewer comes up as a  road. Altho' it takes a year, this is the deal that gets the Cubs over  
  twenty two year old rookie. After three years with Chicago, he will be the hump from perennial doormat to contenders  
  dealt to the Dodgers where he embarks on a lengthy career as one of   
  the top relievers in the game. The Cubs get nothing for him. 1966 -Upon his hiring as Cubs manager, Leo Durocher declares   
    "The Cubs are not an eigth place team" and he is proven correct   
  1960 - Another one that got away. Outfielder Lou Brock is signed as as they finish tenth.   
  an amateur free agent at the age of twenty one. He comes up to the    
  big club the following season. He's traded to the Cards for pitcher  1967 - Durocher turns it around as the Cubs improve twenty   
  Ernie Broglio in 1964. A couple of things about the deal. The Cubs  eight games in the standings and go from tenth to third  
  never realize what they've got in Brock as they don't unleash him as     
  the Cardinals will do. Brock was made for the spacious Busch Stadium 1967 - The improvement in the standings comes from their pitching  
   and the small ball that the Cards needed to play to be successful there. as the starting lineup is a very good one and is almost no different  
  The other is how could the Cubs not see that Broglio was washed up? from 1966. The position players of 1B-Banks, 2B-Beckert,  
    SS-Kessinger, 3B-Santo, OF-Williams, OF- Phillips, C-Hundley  
  1961 - The Cubs don't use a manager for two years. They use a is excellent and serves the Cubs well thru the end of the decade.  
  committee of coaches. A mule is a horse designed by committee. It's the improvement in the pitching that makes the difference. They  
  The Cubs were a mule in '61 and '62. The guy who thought this now have a young stud ace in Fergie Jenkins who goes from a   
  up was something of a jackass himself.  6-8 record to 20-13. Young lefty Ken Holtzman goes from 11-16 to  
    9-0 (he could only play weekends when he was off from duty in the  
  1962 - Glenn Beckert, 21, second baseman is taken from Boston in the National Guard). Also a couple of young twenty two year old righties   
  Rule 5 draft. He comes up to the Cubs in 1965 were solid in the rotation: Joe Niekro 10-7  and Rich Nye 13-10  
       
    1969 - The Cubs lead the Mets all summer, but collapse in   
    September, going from a 2 1/2 game lead on September 9th  
    to lose the division by eight games. A major disappointment for a  
    very talented Cubs team.