Published 4/24/2008
by Carrie Muskat
at Major League Baseball News
How many Cubs wins have you seen? One hundred? Five hundred? One thousand? It may seem as if the Cubs have lost more games than they've won, but they actually began this season with a franchise mark of 9,985-9,459, and now join the New York/San Francisco Giants as the only Major League clubs to reach 10,000 regular-season wins.
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