1906-2006 City Series CENTENNIAL	10 Differences between 1906 and 2006	1906 Chicago's greatest baseball year!
Difference #6	In 1906, they stole more bases! They put themselves in a position to score! Side benefit of frequent base stealing: Runner steals 2nd, goes to 3rd on wild throw! Could then score on passed ball or wild pitch! It happened more often than you'd think! Chance leads NL with 57 steals and it is no... ... accident that he also leads NL in runs (104)!	MORE DIFFERENCES 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10
DID YOU KNOW . . .	Both Sox and Cubs frequently "ran themselves out of an inning" via over-aggressiveness       on the basepaths! There were 7 different occasions when an inning ended on a "caught stealing"! Base-stealers were unsuccessful 44% of the time: out of 25 attempts, 11 resulted in outs!
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