Sox Killer:

Hack Wilson

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  • Lifetime average in City Series: .351
  • Plays in 20 games, scores 20 runs on 26 base hits!
  • In 1928 he leads all batters in hits, runs, RBI's!   
  • 1930 Series is tied at two games apiece....
  • He homers in last two games as Cubs clinch city title!
  • Hits HRs off Cub killer Ted Lyons in '26 and '30
  • The Cubs took 2 of 3 City Series he played in, but lost the 1931 Series 4 games
    to 3, while trying to play without Hack, who was suspended by the team in September.
    Should the Cubs have played him in the Series?


  • His replacement, Vince Barton, bats .222, scores once and has 2 RBI's
  • Would the Cubs have won the Series with Hack in the lineup?
  • What do you think?
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