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[Fishin Phil]

Cubs Trivia:

Who led the Cubs in stolen bases for the decade of the 1990s?

[Cubbie Blues]

I'll take an educated guess with Sammy. He used to steal quite a few back in the day.

[Spriggs]

I can't think of anyone who would be very close to Sammy.

[Spriggs]

Guessing the top 5 SB leaders in the 90s:
1. Sammy
2. Ryno
3. Shawon
Dunston and Sandberg gotta be close. Then... how many years was McRae on the team? How about the 1 Dog? Prolly only a couple years played for each. I don't want to guess Grace. Young was 2000 and 2001? So...
4. McRae
5. Johnson

[Justen]

_{Sammy has to be number one and i would think McRae would be number 2. even though he was only there a few years he put up big totals for those years.}

[Cubbie Blues]

I don't think McRae was around long enough to be #2. I would put Ryno there and then say it drops off quickly after that. They just didn't run much.

[Spriggs]

I don't think McRae was around long enough to be #2. I would put Ryno there and then say it drops off quickly after that. They just didn't run much.

That's what I was thinking about McRae. It does seem like he had around 40 a couple times though. I just couldn't remember exactly how long he was with the Cubs. Wasn't Dunston with them pretty much all of the 90's except the last couple? He had a couple around 30 and then always seemed to be in the mid teens as I recall.

[rcleven]

I'll take an educated guess with Sammy. He used to steal quite a few back in the day.

Sammy had a couple 30/30 seasons during the 90's.

[Spriggs]

Somewhere around here this is a link to the trivia game about opening day Cubs lineups from 1991 thru last year. Having done that so many times... pretty sure McRae and Johnson each had 2 years as starting CF'ers

[Justen]

didnt Dunston get hurt and miss a lot of time during the mid 90's?

[Justen]

i was thinking that McRae was there for 3 years and was probably somwhere around 30 steals each year.

[Fishin Phil]

#1 was indeed Sammy with 172.

[Stinky Pete]

Sammy came up scrawny, fast, pretty good defense and pretty good arm. (According to Strato, A basestealer, 2 (-3) RF.) Bulked up, hit 5000 hr's, became a statue on defense and on the occasion the ball was hit close enough to him, he routinely loaded up and tried to throw the ball through the screen.
I recall cringing at basehits to RF with a runner on 2nd. "Just get the ball to 2nd, Sammy. PLEASE Sammy. Nope. That throw is ten feet above the catcher."

[Cubbie Blues]

# Name G PA SB 1 Sammy Sosa 1081 4688 172 2 Ryne Sandberg 924 3897 94 3 Shawon Dunston 636 2489 90 4 Brian McRae 402 1831 78 5 Mark Grace 1486 6467 49 6 Dwight Smith 415 1078 30 7 Andre Dawson 439 1759 26 8 Rey Sanchez 560 1995 22 9 Jose Hernandez 604 1897 20 10 Mickey Morandini 292 1190 19

Well that formatting stunk this is a little better:
Sorry for the formatting but, I wasn't going to put much effort into it.

Name G PA SB

Sosa 1081 4688 172
Sandberg 924 3897 94
Dunston 646 2489 90
McRae 402 1831 78
Grace 1486 6467 49
Dwight Smith 415 1078 30
Hawk 439 1759 26
Rey Sanchez 560 1995 22
Jose Hernandez 604 1897 20
Mickey Morandini 292 1190 19

[Justen]

Bulked up, hit 5000 hr's, became a statue on defense and on the occasion the ball was hit close enough to him, he routinely loaded up and tried to throw the ball through the screen.

"baseball been berry berry good to me"