- 1929 Chicago Cubs season
MLB yearly infobox-pre1969
name = Chicago Cubs
season = 1929
misc = 1929 National League Champions
current league = National League
y1 = 1876
Uniform
ballpark =Wrigley Field
y4 = 1916
city =Chicago, Illinois
y5 = 1871
owners =William Wrigley Jr.
managers =Joe McCarthy
television = none
radio =WCFL
(John O'Hara, Pat Flanagan)
WGN
(Bob Elson )|Offseason
*November 7, 1928:
Socks Seibold , Percy Jones,Lou Legett ,Freddie Maguire ,Bruce Cunningham , and $200,000 was traded by the Boston Braves to the Chicago Cubs forRogers Hornsby . [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hornsro01.shtml Rogers Hornsby page at Baseball Reference] ]Regular season
Rogers Hornsby, who was acquired from the Boston Braves in an offseason deal, had a career year, hitting .380. In the process, he hit 39 home runs and leading the league with a .679 slugging percentage. The 156 runs scored by Hornsby in 1929 were the most by a right-handed batter in the National League during the 20th century. Hornsby collected his second
Most Valuable Player award that year, and for the second time he won a National League pennant.eason standings
Roster
Pitching
tarting pitchers
1929 World Series AL Philadelphia Athletics (4) vs. NL
Chicago Cubs (1)Awards and records
*Rogers Hornsby, National League record, Most runs by a second baseman, (156). [Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p.91, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, NY, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0]
Farm system [Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., "The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball," 3rd edition. Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, 2007]* Class AA: Los Angeles Angels (
Pacific Coast League ;Marty Krug andJack Lelivelt , managers)References
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/1929.shtml 1929 Chicago Cubs season at Baseball Reference]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
