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October 26th, 2009, 10:00 AM
10/25/73:
Despite hitting .351 in a brief trial at the end of the season, Bill Madlock is traded away by the Texas Rangers to the Chicago Cubs for proven starter Ferguson Jenkins. While Jenkins will win 42 games for the Rangers over the next two years (and 51 more in a second stint with the team), Madlock will become a veritable hitting machine in his 15-year major league career. He’ll compile a .305 lifetime batting average, get over 2,000 hits and win four batting titles, two with the Cubs and two with the Pirates.
B I R T H D A Y S
Bobby Thomson b. 1923
Zelmo Beaty b. 1939
Bobby Knight b. 1940
Dave Cowens b. 1948
Dan Issel b. 1948
Despite hitting .351 in a brief trial at the end of the season, Bill Madlock is traded away by the Texas Rangers to the Chicago Cubs for proven starter Ferguson Jenkins. While Jenkins will win 42 games for the Rangers over the next two years (and 51 more in a second stint with the team), Madlock will become a veritable hitting machine in his 15-year major league career. He’ll compile a .305 lifetime batting average, get over 2,000 hits and win four batting titles, two with the Cubs and two with the Pirates.
B I R T H D A Y S
Bobby Thomson b. 1923
Zelmo Beaty b. 1939
Bobby Knight b. 1940
Dave Cowens b. 1948
Dan Issel b. 1948