This Day in Baseball: Cubs Collect 21 Hits

By Precious Sanders @pdsanders99

In a game against the Philadelphia Phillies on July 18, 1912, the Chicago Cubs collected 21 hits in eleven innings. The Cubs still lost to the Phillies, however, when Philadelphia scored two runs in the top of the eleventh, and Chicago was only able to respond with one. The final score of the contest was 9-8.

West Side Grounds, Chicago, 1910 (public domain)