» July 10, 1925: Giants OF Hack Wilson is the seventh player to hit two HRs in one inning; he does it against the Pirates.

» May 23, 1926: Hack Wilson smacks a 5th inning home run, a rare blast off the Wrigley Field scoreboard, situated at ground level, to start a route of the Braves. The Cubs score seven runs in the 8th inning to win 14–8. Sparky Adams contributes four hits for Chicago. Later that night, Wilson and a few others are arrested at a friend's apartment for drinking beer in violation of the Prohibition Act. The scoreboard will be moved to the left field corner in 1937, before one will be built atop the newly built bleachers.

» May 17, 1927: Charlie Grimm singles in Hack Wilson with the winning run in the 22nd inning to give the Cubs a 4–3 victory over the Braves at Boston. Braves pitcher Bob Smith goes the distance, while Bob Osborn hurls 14 runless relief innings to win for Chicago. The two teams have now combined for a major-league record 40 innings in their last two games. Smith's 22-inning stint, the 5th longest in history, will not be matched this century. Only Oeschger-Cadore on May 1, 1920 and Coombs-Harris on September 1, 1906, were longer.

» May 23, 1927: At Wrigley Field, Hack Wilson clouts the first homer to ever hit the ground level scoreboard in CF to lead the Cubs to a 14–8 win over the Braves. After the game, Wilson will celebrate his homer with drinks at a friend's apartment, and will get arrested for violating Prohibition.

» May 19, 1928: The Cubs win their 13th straight, edging the Braves, 3–2. Pitcher Charlie Root breaks a 2–2 tie with a sacrifice fly. Hack Wilson clubs a homer for Chicago. The Cubs are in first place, but will lose tomorrow, and in three days, the Reds will regain the lead with a win over Pittsburgh.

» May 4, 1929: At Baker Bowl, Cubs pitcher Pat Malone holds the Phillies scoreless, and collects three singles and two RBI to win easily, 16–0. Hack Wilson and Kiki Cuyler each hit two doubles, and Rogers Hornsby homers. The Cubs take the 2nd game as well, 9–7.

» July 3, 1929: The Cubs Hack Wilson jumps into the Reds dugout to fight pitcher Ray Kolp, who has been needling him. Wilson is stopped and ejected before reaching Kolp. The Cubs win 10-5, and that evening, when both teams are at Chicago's Union Station awaiting trains, Wilson floors Reds pitcher Pete Donohue.

» September 2, 1929: The Cubs beat the Cards twice 11-7 and 12­10, before 81,000 fans at Wrigley Field. A crowd of 38,000 fans sees the morning game and 43,000 watch the afternoon game. Rogers Hornsby has two HRs and Hack Wilson has one.

» October 12, 1929: At 45, John Quinn (11-9) gets a start against Root. After giving up a home run to Charlie Grimm with a man on in the 3rd, Quinn serves up four straight singles to open the 6th, and in comes Rube Walberg (18-11). The inning ends with the score 7–0. Trailing 8–0 in the 7th, the Athletics, in the greatest rally in World Series history, shake Chicago by scoring 10 runs for a 10–8 victory. The most damaging play is Hack Wilson's misjudgment of a fly from Mule Haas's bat, which goes for a 3-run, inside-the-park home run.

» January 20, 1930: Commissioner Landis bans boxing for all players in baseball following the brief boxing career of White Sox 1B Art Shires. His challenge to Hack Wilson purportedly prompts the ban. Shires fought several suspected bouts that resulted in his being suspended by the boxing commissions of 32 states but loses a desultory 5-rounder to Chicago Bears center George (The Brute) Trafton. Shires did win a punch out with Sox manager Lena Blackburne and two hotel detectives late last season.

» June 23, 1930: Hack Wilson hits for the cycle with two singles, a double, triple, and HR and drives in six as the Cubs whip the Phils 21-8 at Wrigley.

» July 26, 1930: Phils pitchers continue their consistency, giving up five HRs to the Cubs in a 16-2 pasting. Hack Wilson has three of the homers, while Gabby Hartnett and winning pitcher Pat Malone add the other two.

» August 10, 1930: Before 45,000 fans, the Cubs sweep two from the Boston Braves at Wrigley to move a game in back of Brooklyn. Hack Wilson drives home seven runs on three homers, the last his 39th, to back up Charlie Root's 3-hit shut out in the opener. The Cubs win 6–0 beating Bob Smith. Pat Malone completes the sweep. twirling a 5-hitter to beat Bruce Cunningham, 11–1, in the nitecap.

» August 16, 1930: At Wrigley, the league-leading Cubs nip the Phillies, 10–9, the play to a 3–3 tie in 11 innings before darkness intervenes. The Phils score eight runs in the 7th to take a 9–8 lead, but Gabby Hartnett's drive wins the game for Chicago. Hack Wilson hits his 41st homer in the opener. The Phils manage just two hits in the nitecap, but take a 3–0 lead into the 9th. But Chicago scores a run on a balk by Stephenson, then Woody English cracks a two-run homer to tie.

» August 18, 1930: Woody English scores five runs and Hack Wilson hits his 42nd home run, as the Cubs crush the Phillies 17–3. Pat Malone contributes another home run and goes the distance for the win.

» August 19, 1930: In the first of two, Chicago's Hack Wilson connects off Phils P Sugar Sweetland for his 43rd home run, tying Chuck Klein's National League record set last year. In RF, Klein waves to Wilson as he circles the bases. The Phils hold on for a 9–8 win with Claude Willoughby the winner over rookie Bud Teachout. The second game ends in a 6–6 tie after 16 innings.

» August 26, 1930: Hack Wilson has four RBIs to lead the Cubs over the Pirates 7–5. Wilson cracks a 2-run single in the 5th, but then allows a Lloyd Waner liner to skip by him for an inside-the-park-HR, and vows to atone. He hits his 44th home run, off young Larry French, breaking Chuck Klein's one-year-old National League record.

» August 28, 1930: The Cards outlast the league-leading Cubs 8–7 in a 20-inning game at Wrigley Field. Andy High's single scores the winning run, even though High was tagged out trying the reach 2nd base. Taylor Douthit's run is ruled to have scored before the out. Hack Wilson leaves the game with a strained back after a big swing.

» August 30, 1930: Hack Wilson returns to the Cubs lineup and drives in six runs on his 45th and 46th homers of the year to lead Chicago over the Cardinals, 16–4. For August, Hack hits 13 homers and drive in 53 runs.

» September 15, 1930: The Cubs split a pair in Philadelphia when Lefty O'Doul pinch-hits a HR to beat the Cubs 12-11 in the first game. It is the second consecutive game that O'Doul has produced pinch-hit HRs. In the 2nd game of the day's doubleheader, Hack Wilson hits his 50th HR to pace the Cubs to a 6-4 win.

» September 20, 1930: Hack Wilson hits no HRs but gets his 176th RBI, passing Lou Gehrig's 1927 major-league record.

» September 27, 1930: Hack Wilson clubs two HRs to finish with a still-standing NL record of 56. The Cubs win 13-8 over the Reds at Wrigley as Pat Malone wins his 20th of the year.

» October 10, 1930: With no MVP award for the second year in a row, the Associated Press polls its members and names Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP for 1930. The Baseball Writers Association names Hack Wilson the MVP of the NL. The Cubs give Wilson a bonus of $1,000, the monetary reward which the MVP title had carried as an official league honor.

» February 5, 1931: Hack Wilson, who set the NL home run and ML RBI records for the Cubs in 1930, signs with them for $35,000.

» May 2, 1931: Hack Wilson hits his first home run of 1931 as the Cards beat the Cubs 6–3 at St. Louis. After hitting 56 homers last year, Wilson will hit only 13 with the deader National League ball. The MVP will end up as an alternate in the Cubs outfield.

» September 5, 1931: In Cincinnati, the Cubs lose, 4–3, in 10 innings. Hack Wilson, in the Cubs dog house for drinking and not hitting, is left in the bull pen to warm up pitchers when manager Hornsby, short of outfielders, inserts pitcher Bud Teachout in LF. On the train back to Chicago that night, Wilson starts arguing with two writers. When Pat Malone wanders by, he joins in the argument and, with his encouragement, Wilson punches out both writers. Malone will be fined $500 for his actions while club president Bill L. Veeck will suspend Wilson without pay for the rest of the season. In 112 games, Wilson hit just .261 with 13 home runs, and the Cubs will send the slumping slugger to St. Louis over the winter.

» December 11, 1931: Despite two wins in the World Series, spitball veteran Burleigh Grimes is traded by the Cards to the Cubs for the fallen Hack Wilson. Wilson will be offered just $7,500 reflecting the owner's new austerity drive. Grimes will have three losing seasons in Chicago before calling it quits.

» January 23, 1932: The Dodgers acquire Hack Wilson from the Cardinals, which had acquired him in December. The 1930 home run king of the National League costs only $45,000 and a minor league pitcher, and he will sign for $16,500, half his previous year's salary.

» September 3, 1932: Against the Red Sox, Jimmie Foxx of the A's poles his 50th and 51st home runs to become the 3rd player to reach 50 in a season, joining Babe Ruth and Hack Wilson. Foxx's 2nd homer, in the 9th, ties the game at 4–4, and McNair follows with a game winning home run.

» May 14, 1933: With rain pelting down at Ebbets Field, Hack Wilson pounds a 9th inning pinch grand slam, the first in Dodger history, to beat the Phils Ad Liska, 8–6. The homer is inside-the-park, just the 3rd pinch inside-the-park grand homer in history, and the first since 1910.

» June 5, 1934: A tough way to end a streak. In the opener of two, Dodger outfielder Buzz Boyle cracks four hits to run his hit streak to 25-straight games. The skein is stopped in game two when Boyle pinch hits for Hack Wilson and makes out. The Phils use two late-inning rallies to beat Brooklyn, 11–10 and 5–4.

» July 4, 1934: When Dodgers manager Casey Stengel comes out to the mound to remove P Boom Boom Beck from the game in Philadelphia's Baker Bowl, the frustrated Beck turns and fires the ball at the tin wall in RF. Dodgers OF Hack Wilson, not paying attention to the happenings, hears the ball, hurries to retrieve it, and fires a strike to 2B to prevent the imaginary runner from advancing.

» September 10, 1938: Jimmie Foxx of the Red Sox hits 2 HRs in a game for the 9th time this season, breaking a record held by Babe Ruth and Hack Wilson.

» March 7, 1979: The Special Veterans Committee selects Warren Giles and slugger Hack Wilson for the Hall of Fame.

» August 5, 1979: Willie Mays, Warren Giles, and Hack Wilson are inducted into the Hall of Fame.

» September 22, 1997: Ken Griffey Jr. hits his 54th and 55th homers, overtaking Mark McGwire for the major league lead, as Seattle clinches a tie for the American League West title, defeating Oakland 4-2. Griffey now has the seventh-highest homer total in ML history, trailing only Roger Maris (61 in 1961), Ruth (60 in 1927), Babe Ruth (59 in 1921), Foxx (58 in 1932), Hank Greenberg (58 in 1938) and Hack Wilson (56 in 1930). Griffey's 55 homers are the most in the majors since Maris set the record in 1961. He has five games left, all at the Kingdome, to match Maris' mark. With three home runs, Seattle has 257 this season, tying the major league mark set by Baltimore last year.

» August 31, 1998: Cubs' OF Sammy Sosa ties Mark McGwire by hitting his 55th home run in Chicago's 5–4 win over Cincinnati. Sosa has hit 30 of his homers at Wrigley, three short of Hack Wilson's Cub record and tying him with Ernie Banks.

» September 1, 1998: Mark McGwire hits his 56th and 57th home runs of the season, in a 7–1 Cardinals' win over Florida, to break Hack Wilson's National League standard for home runs in a season. McGwire also eclipses Babe Ruth's record of 114 home runs in consecutive seasons set in 1927–28.

» September 4, 1998: Sammy Sosa's 57th home run leads the Cubs to a 5–2 win over Pittsburgh. Sosa surpasses Hack Wilson's club record set 68 years ago.

» June 28, 1999: Hack Wilson ups his RBI total for the 1930 season to 191. 69 years after the season, an RBI is added by the commissioner's office, which also gives Babe Ruth six additional walks, raising his career-record total to 2,062. "There is no doubt that Hack Wilson's RBI total should be 191," commissioner Bud Selig said. "I am sensitive to the historical significance that accompanies the correction of such a prestigious record, especially after so many years have passed, but it is important to get it right." The missing RBI came from the 2nd game of a doubleheader between Wilson's Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds on July 28, 1930 where Charlie Grimm was credited with two RBIs in the game and Wilson with none. Ruth's walks total is now 2,062. Ted Williams is second, trailing by 43, and Rickey Henderson of the New York Mets is third, 134 behind Ruth.

» October 7, 2001: The Cubs lose to the Pirates in their final game of the season, 4-3. They become the first team in ML history to not allow an opposing pitcher to throw a complete game against them all season. Sammy Sosa closes out 2001 with his 64th homer in his final at-bat of the game and sets a new franchise record with 98 extra base hits, one more than Hack Wilson smacked in 1930. He also finishes with another franchise record of 425 total bases, the 7th best all-time total, two ahead of Wilson. His 160 RBIs is the highest total in the NL since Chuck Klein knocked in 170 in 1930; Sammy's RBI total for the past four years also breaks Klein's 4-year mark set in 1929-32. To finish out the record day, five Cubs pitchers combine for 12 strikeouts as the staff sets a major-league record with 1,246 strikeouts. The Yankees do the same, setting an AL mark with 1,266 strikeouts.