SOX

8th
51-101
44.5

1948

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CUBS

8th
64-90
27.5

 EDDIE WAITKUS
Transformed into Robert Redford

* Promising Cub first baseman
* Goes .306 in first season (1946)
* Follows with .292 and .295 seasons
* Traded to Phillies in '49
* Is shot in Chicago on first trip back
* Deranged female opens fire at hotel
* Comes back to play in 1950
* Shooting is fictionalized in The Natural
* Later made into Redford movie
* Isn't real story good enough?

Satchel Paige comes to town and a record
51,599 fans come out to Comiskey
Sox newcomer Pat Seerey blasts four home runs
in game in Philadelphia
Peanuts Lowrey has his best Cub season,
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