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        Yr P W L   Yr P W L   Yr P W L               1970  
        1970 2 84 78   1973 5 73 84   1977 4 81 81               Decade  
        1971 3 83 79   1974 6 66 96   1978 3 79 83               Click  
        1972 2 85 70   1975 5 75 87   1979 5 80 82               on Logo  
                  1976 4 75 87                            
                                                       
                                                             
   
  Titles: Top Cubs Players of the Seventies  
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    Pitchers:  
  Ballpark: Rick Reuschel (40.91) -   71  
  Wrigley Field Ferguson Jenkins (26.66) -   52  
    Ray Burris (10.22) -   32  
  Team Name: Milt Pappas (16.32) -   26  
  Cubs    Bill Bonham (14.63) -   26  
    Bruce Sutter (15.26) -   25  
  Owners:  Bill Hands (12.26) -   21  
  Phillip K Wrigley  (1970-1977) Burt Hooton (10.36) -   17  
  William Wrigley (1977-1979) Ken Holtzman (7.08) -   14  
    Dennis Lamp (7.53) -   9  
  General Managers: Mike Krukow (6.48) -   8  
  John Holland (1970-1975) Steve Stone (6.11) -   7  
  ER Saltwell (1976) Lynn McGlothen (5.16) -   6  
  Bob Kennedy (1977-1979)    
    Catchers:  
  Managers: Randy Hundley (-0.24) -   15  
  Leo Durocher (1970-1972) George Mitterwald (0.14) -   13  
  Whitey Lockman (1972-1974) Steve Swisher (-1.14) -   11  
  Jim Marshall (1974-1976)  
  Herman Franks (1977-1978) First Basemen:  
  Joe Amalfitano (1979) Andre Thornton (5.17) -   22  
    Bill Buckner (1.22) -   17  
  Hall of Famers: Joe Pepitione (2.4) -   15  
  Leo Durocher      
  Bruce Sutter   Second Basemen:  
  Ferguson Jenkins Manny Trillo (1.38) -   15  
  Ron Santo Glenn Beckert (4.66) -   14  
  Billy Williams    
    ShortStop:  
  Rookie of the Year:  Don Kessinger (5.02) -   36  
  None Ivan DeJesus (7.6) -   31  
       
  MVP Third Base:  
  None Ron Santo (14.53) -   32  
    Bill Madlock (11.54) -   30  
  No Hitters: Steve Ontiveros (3.79) -   15  
  Ken Holtzman (1971)    
  Burt Hooton (1972) Outfield:  
  Milt Pappas (1972) Billy Williams (20.93) -   56  
    Rick Monday (11.24) -   55  
  Cy Young: Jose Cardenal (9.36) -   53  
  Ferguson Jenkins (1971) Jim Hickman (7.67) -   30  
  Bruce Sutter (1979) Dave Kingman (6.5) -   28  
    Jerry Morales (-0.72) -   25  
  Notable Events: Bobby Murcer (0.93) -   17  
       
  1970 - The Cubs begin the Seventies on a low. They have an excellent Notable Events:  
  club but they blew a big lead and lost the1969 pennant to the Mets.    
  That's as close as this group will get to winning anything. For the first 1975 - Righthander Lee Smith, 17, is drafted by the Cubs in the  
  three seasons of the Seventies, the Cubs are a competitive club as second round of the amateur draft. Lee comes up to the Cubs in  
  they still have the nucleus from their pennant run. However, by mid 1980 and develops into one of the top relievers in baseball  
  decade, they descend into mediocrity and worse. They haven't signed during his eight year stay. He pitches eighteen years in the big  
  any star quality players for over a decade when they signed Banks leagues - in most of them he is rated as one of the top relievers  
   (1953), Williams (1956), Santo (1959) and Brock (1960) in the game  
     
  1970 - Righthander Rick Reuschel, 21, is drafted in the third round of the 1976 - John Holland retires as GM after twenty years at the helm.  
  amateur draft. He comes up to the big leagues in 1972 and is the ace  He had built the contending clubs of the late Sixties / early Seventies  
  of Chicago's staff thru the end of the decade.    
    1976 - Relief ace Bruce Sutter, 23, is a rookie. He was signed by   
  1971 - Ernie Banks retires at the end of the season the Cubs as an undrafted free agent five years earlier. Sutter,  
    using a devastating cutter, becomes one of top relievers in the  
  1972 - The Cubbies finish over .500 for the sixth straight season, game during his five year stint with the Cubs  
  their best run since 1939. Leo Durocher, who presided over the    
  streak, is rewarded by being fired as manager 1976 - Bill Madlock wins the batting title.  
       
  1972 - Outfielder Jose Cardenal, 28, is obtained in a deal with 1977 - Owner PK Wrigley dies, thus ending a forty five year era   
   Milwaukee. He gives the Cubs six quality seasons. of utter futility for Cubs fans. His son Wiliam takes over, but  
  nothing changes - the Cubs keep losing.  
  1974 - Chicago trades Fergie Jenkins to Texas for Bill Madlock.     
  Bad trade. 1978 - The Cubs draft outfielder Mel Hall, 17, in the second   
    round. He makes it to the big leagues in 1981.  
       
    1978 - Chicago gets lucky drafting second baseman Ryne   
  Sandberg in the twentieth round of the Amateur draft. He becomes  
  a Hall of Famer. Sandberg will come up to the Cubs in 1982 at the  
  age of twenty two.