Cubs Record.xlsx

	A	B	C	D	E	F	K	L
1	Opponent	Date	Attendance	Att. Rank	Score	W / L	Player of the Game	Notes
2	Dodgers	April 23, 1966	6,974	287	2 - 0	W	Jenkins	Fergie's first game as a Cub. He hit the 2-run homer that won the game. Box seats cost $3.50.
3	Braves	May 27, 1966	3,242	290	3 - 5	L		Note the attendance!
4	Giants	June 23, 1966	9,623	284	4 - 6	L
5	Reds	July 20, 1966	12,238	279	4 - 5	L
6	Reds	July 20, 1966	(Game 2)		1 - 5	L		Called after 7 innings because of darkness.
7	Braves	August 2, 1966	7,266	285	6 - 5	W		12 innings
8	Mets	August 24, 1966	7,160	286	6 - 5	W
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10	Sox	April 8, 1967	6,556	288	8 - 5	W		Exhibition
11	Dodgers	May 21, 1967	29,903	225	1 - 6	L		Holtzman goes into the Army!
12	Dodgers	May 21, 1967	(Game 2)		8 - 2	W
13	Phillies	June 27, 1967	12,769	278	2 - 4	L
14	Reds	July 1, 1967	31,833	208	6 - 3	W
15	Braves	July 18, 1967	19,875	268	9 - 3	W
16	Mets	September 3, 1967	30,831	223	4 - 0	W	Williams, Banks	The third of four days in a row of double-headers!
17	Mets	September 3, 1967	(Game 2)		6 - 3	W	Beckert
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19	Cards	April 3, 1968	33,875	190	5 - 8	L	Santo	Biggest Opening Day crowd since 1946! Santo Grand Slam in the first.
20	Astros	April 28, 1968	23,988	250	8 - 4	W	Beckert
21	Astros	April 28, 1968	(Game 2)		5 - 2	W	Banks, Santo
22	Reds	June 13, 1966	11,384	282	8 - 4	W	Banks, Santo
23	Astros	August 30, 1968	10,054	283	5 - 3	W	Santo	Santo had all 5 RBI's
24	Phillies	September 8, 1968	15,789	275	10 - 3	W	Williams, Banks	Season attendance went over 1 million on this day for the first time since 1952!
25	Pirates	September 29, 1968	16,860	274	5 - 3	W	Santo	Final game of the season; 14 years before Emmie's birthday! Cubs win on a run in the 9th; manage only 3 hits to Pirates 12!
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27	Phillies	April 8, 1969	40,796	40	7 - 6	W	Banks, WILLIE SMITH!	Largest Opening Day crowd ever! First year of Divisional play (East and West). Ernie homers his first 2 times up and has 5 RBI's. Fergie takes a 5 - 2 lead into the 9th, but gives up a 3-run homer. Phillies go up 6 - 5 in the 11th, but Hundley singles and Willie Smith hits a pinch-hit homer to win the game and start the greatest season ever! NOTE: signatures on scorecard are from my week at Fantasy Camp in January, 1993 (25 years later!)
28	Mets	May 4, 1969	40,484	52	2 - 3	L	Spangler
29	Mets	May 4, 1969	(Game 2)		2 - 3	L		Yes, same score!
30	Cards	June 28, 1969	29,285	231	3 - 1	W	Hands	Wow! A complete game, 3-hitter!
31	Phillies	July 11, 1969	24,509	249	5 - 7	L	Kessinger, Beckert, Williams
32	Dodgers	July 24, 1969	26,476	243	5 - 3	W	Spangler
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34	Phillies	April 14, 1970	36,316	159	5 - 4	W	Banks	Opening Day! Holtzman pitches a complete game…gives up all 4 runs in the 9th!
35	Padres	May 31, 1970	22,193	260	7 - 4	W	Callison	Fergie pitches a(nother) complete game…gives up only 5 hits. Three of the 4 runs score on solo homers (the last one leading off the 9th!)!
36	Giants	June 5, 1970	21,961	261	12 - 8	W	Santo, Hickman	Jenkins beats Marichal.
37	Mets	June 24, 1970	35,071	176	5 - 9	L		Ernie pinch-hit 3-run homer in the 9th (off of Seaver - complete game) to make it close.
38	Phillies	July 10, 1970	22,399	258	2 - 0	W	Santo, Jenkins	Yes, another complete game.
39	Reds	July 22, 1970	37,848	135	10 -2	W	Hickman, Hands, Beckert	Complete game by Hands. Hickman - 4 RBIs.
40	Padres	August 19, 1970	37,848	135	12 - 2	W	Hickman, Williams, Jenkins	Complete game by Jenkins (plus a home run!). Hickman - 5 RBIs!
41	Mets	September 4, 1970	29,327	229	7 - 3	W	Hundley
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43	Cards	April 6, 1971	39,079	107	2 - 1	W	Jenkins, Williams	Opening Day. Temp: 40; wind from the north at 20 mph. Another Fergie complete game (a 3-hitter)! This time the victim was Gibson.
44	Phillies	July 16, 1971	23,212	255	11 - 2	W	Santo, Beckert, Jenkins	Ho hum….another Fergie complete game and home run.
45	Mets	July 21, 1971	37,828	138	11 - 7	W	Hickman, Beckert, Banks, Williams, and Brock.	No, not Lou Brock; Brock Davis.
46	Astros	August 21, 1971	26,386	245	0 - 3	L	Billingham (a rare POG for the opposing team)	First game with Wendy! Kessinger and Beckert play in their 1000th game. Complete games by both Hands and Billingham. Note: Last scorecard to include ads for cigarettes!
47	Braves	August 29, 1971	29,685	226	4 - 5	L
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49	Padres	June 14, 1972	12,171	280	12 - 9	W	Williams
50	Dodgers	June 16, 1972	20,257	263	4 - 0	W	Williams, Hooton	Complete game shutout.
51	Pirates	June 24, 1972	27,543	239	1 - 3	L
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53	Cards	July 29, 1973	38,839	116	2 - 7	L		Fergie finally loses a game! After many years, the price of the best box seats has risen to $3.75 (from $3.50)!!! Also….Ernie is listed as "Coach". :-(
54	Braves	August 15, 1973	21,652	262	1 - 15	L		Ouch! Rico Carty (playing against his former team) gets his first hit as a Cub.
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56	Giants	May 27, 1974	18,161	273	12 - 4	W	Kesinger, Frailing	Complete game by……Ken Frailing! (Which, as it turns out, was the only one of his career!). OK, so he gave up 14 hits; he also had 2 hits and 3 RBIs. The price of a box seat goes up to $4.00!
57	Braves	July 7, 1974	28,409	233	4 - 3	W	Cubs: Monday; Braves: Hammerin' Hank	Aaron hits home run #725 in his last game at Wrigley field. Sidebar: this game puts our personal attendance total over the 1 million mark.
58	Cards	July 28, 1974	30,425	224	4 - 5	L
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60	Padres	May 10, 1975	20,209	265	5 - 1	W	Cardenal	First game since we were married!
61	Giants	July 13, 1975	22,868	256	1 - 4	L
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63	Mets	June 27, 1976	23,415	252	3 - 13	L	Wallis	Joe Wallis hits a 2-run homer in the 9th to make it close. Box seats go up to $4.50! Bleachers go from $1.00 to $1.25!
64	Dodgers	August 13, 1976	20,004	267	3 - 2	W	Madlock	Cubs win in the bottom of the 15th! And the game only took 3hr46min! This was game 1 of a double-header; we did not stay for game 2.
65	Expos	October 2, 1976	6,532	289	3 - 1	W	Burris	Burris complete game. Madlock wins 2nd straight batting title (so of course the Cubs traded him in the off-season!).
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67	Mets	June 26, 1977	36,698	156	5 - 2	W	Krukow	Cubs, at 45 - 22, in 1st place by 7 games! (sigh….) Box seats go up another 50 cents to $5.00! Ernie inducted into HOF!
68	Cards	July 7, 1977	27,088	240	7 - 6	W		Two weeks later and now we're in 1st by 3 games. Uh-oh.
69	Cards	July 10, 1977	40,874	36	3 - 8	L	Keith Hernandez (boo!)
70	Cards	July 10, 1977	Game 2		4 - 3	W
71	Phillies	August 13, 1977	27,872	236	7 - 10	L		Ouch! Bake McBride hits a 3-run homer in the 11th!
72	Dodgers	August 20, 1977	27,735	238	5 - 4	W	Mitterwald, Buckner
73	Cards	September 5, 1977	34,498	185	4 - 2	W	Biitner, Buckner
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75	Padres	June 11, 1978	36,751	154	7 - 4	W	Ontiveros	The steady increase continues as box seats now cost $5.50 and bleacher seats have gone up to $1.50! However, they now have Senior Citizens (Tuesday) and Ladies (Friday) Day prices of $1.00 (regular grandstand seats).
76	Phillies	July 1, 1978	26,512	242	1 - 2	L
77	Dodgers	July 16, 1978	42,280	3	3 - 2	W	DeJesus, Rader
78	Dodgers	July 16, 1978	Game 2		3 - 5	L
79	Expos	August 6, 1978	39,234	99	1 - 2	L
80	Expos	August 6, 1978	Game 2		4 - 3	W
81	Astros	September 3, 1978	29,528	228	3 - 2	W	Lamp, Gross	15,000th Cubs game!!!! Most by one team in one city.
82	Astros	September 3, 1978	Game 2		4 - 2	W		In the only game he ever started for the Cubs, Manny Seoane lasts 1.1 innings.
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84	Giants	June 2, 1979	32,721	200	6 - 8	L	Martin	Box seats jump to $6.00. And…a new kind of Frosty Malt!
85	Mets	June 30, 1979	28,394	234	8 - 9	L	Kingman, Vail	What a game! Tied 3 - 3 after 9, there is a long rain delay. In the 11th, the Mets score 6 runs! Is the game over? No way! In the bottom of the 11th, the Cubs get a run and then Mike Vail hits a pinch-hit grand slam! 5 runs! But it's not enough; Cubs lose 9 - 8. The 11 runs in the 11th is the most ever scored in an extra inning!
86	Astros	July 6, 1979	37,614	143	10 - 0	W	Everyone!	A laugher!
87	Pirates	August 9, 1979	29,645	227	11 - 3	W	Buckner, Dillard, Lamp	Complete game!
88	Cards	September 3, 1979	31,120	220	1 - 2	L		Andrew's first game! (OK, so he wasn't born yet). Also, Lou Brock's final game in Chicago (yes….it still hurts).
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90	Padres	July 20, 1980	23,325	254	6 - 0	W	Johnson, McGlothen	Our ONLY game of 1980. Why? Andrew arrived! Box seats up to $6.50.
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92	Dodgers	June 7, 1981	20,024	266	0 - 7	L		Another new (bigger!) Frosty Malt.
93	Pirates	August 15, 1981	15,388	276	4 - 3	W	Davis, Waller	Another 15 inning game; it lasted 4hr57min! This was the year of the 2 month strike.
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95	Padres	August 22, 1982	23,601	251	8 - 7	W	Davis, Buckner	Em's first game (in utero!). Ernie Banks Day (Em still has the shirt!!!). First time a CUBS player's number was retired. Also…actual photographs on the scorecard! On the other hand….they stopped printing the ticket prices; probably too embarrassed.
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97	Giants	July 19, 1983	19,400	270	3 - 4	L	Hah!	11 hits and 12 LOB! 10 innings, 3 hours and 36 minutes of futility.
98	Dodgers	July 27, 1983	30,951	221	2 - 1	W	Jenkins, Smith ("Big Lee", not Willie)	Fergie needed help this time!
99	Cards	August 10, 1983	31,375	215	5 - 9	L		More torture! Smith gives up 2 in the 9th to send the game to extras. Cards score 4 in the 13th. We rally, but Jay Johnstone (former Dodger!) hits into a game ending double play with the bases loaded!
100	Reds	August 22, 1983	11,749	281	2 - 0	W	Noles, Smith, Martinez	Charlie Fox takes over as manager from Lee Elia. Carmello Martinez hits a homer in his first major league game. Johnny Bench's final appearance at Wrigley.