Although they fell to the " Hitless Wonders " White Sox in the 1906 World Series, the Cubs recorded a record 116 victories and the best winning percentage (. 763 ) in Major League history.

The Cubs successfully defended their National League Central title in 2008, going to the postseason in consecutive years for the first time since 1906 – 08.

The Mariners won 116 games in, which set the American League record for most wins in a single season and tied the 1906 Chicago Cubs for the Major League record for most wins in a single season.

* 9 – 14 October — Chicago White Sox ( AL ) defeats Chicago Cubs ( NL ) in the 1906 World Series by 4 games to 2.

* The Seattle Mariners tied the 1906 Chicago Cubs record with 116 wins.

Only four teams have won more regular season games: the 1906 Chicago Cubs and the 2001 Seattle Mariners with 116, the 1998 Yankees with 114 and the 1954 Cleveland Indians with 111.

* The record for number of wins in a single season of Major League Baseball achieved by the Chicago Cubs in 1906 and the Seattle Mariners in 2001.

Chance led the Cubs to four National League championships in the span of five years ( 1906 – 1910 ), and won the World Series championships in 1907 and 1908.

Meanwhile, The Cubs won 116 games during the 1906 season, taking the NL pennant.

The Chicago White Sox of the American League defeated the Cubs in the 1906 World Series.

Samuel James Tilden " Jimmy " Sheckard ( November 23, 1878 – January 15, 1947 ) was an American left fielder and left-handed leadoff hitter in Major League Baseball who played for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms / Superbas ( 1897 – 98, 1900 – 01, 1902 – 05 ), Baltimore Orioles ( NL ) ( 1899 ), Baltimore Orioles ( AL ) ( 1902 ), Chicago Cubs ( 1906 – 12 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1913 ) and Cincinnati Reds ( 1913 ).

He is best known for his years with the Chicago Cubs dynasty which won four pennants between 1906 and 1910 ; and for his feud with double play partner Johnny Evers.

Thus he was part of the wonder team of the 1906 Cubs ; that year the ERA for the entire pitching staff was 1. 76.

Between 1906 and 1910, the Cubs won four National League pennants and two World Series titles, and Kling was said to be one of the reasons why.

The White Sox then defeated their cross-town rivals, the heavily-favored Chicago Cubs in the 1906 World Series.

His first major league game was on September 27, 1906, with the Brooklyn Dodgers visiting the Chicago Cubs ; he became a member of the NL's regular staff in April 1907.

The latter of the two parks, home of the franchise for nearly a quarter century, is best known as the site of the last World Champion Cubs team ( 1908 ), the team that won the most games in major league history ( 1906 ), the only cross-town World Series in Chicago ( 1906 ), and the immortalized Tinker to Evers to Chance double play combo.

From 1906 through 1910, the Cubs won four National League pennants and two World Series championships.

The 1906 World Series between the Cubs and the Chicago White Sox featured the first cross-town matchup in Series history.

* Chicago Cubs vs. Chicago White Sox — The " Windy City Series " The Sox bested the Cubs in the 1906 World Series, the only all-Chicago series to date.

He took part in the Wanderers ' Stanley Cup challenge against the New Glasgow Cubs, a team from Nova Scotia, on December 27 and 29, 1906, and along with teammates Riley Hern, Frank Glass, Moose Johnson and Jack Marshall, became the first professional hockey players to compete for the Stanley Cup.

That one-hit game was only the second low-hit game in the history of the Series, the first having been pitched by the Cubs ' own Ed Reulbach in 1906.

He won his first international tournament at Munich 1906.

He won seven first places and a third place in a single high school track and field meet in 1906.

The club won the Southern League twice, in 1905 – 06 and 1906 – 07.

After finishing in first place the club was promoted to the First Division, which it won in 1901 and again in 1906.

Under Ernest Mangnall, who assumed managerial duties in 1903, the team finished as Second Division runners-up in 1906 and secured promotion to the First Division, which they won in 1908 – the club's first league title.

In 1906, the Liberal party, led by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, won an overwhelming victory on a platform that promised social reforms for the working class.

In 1906, the " Milwaukee Meteor " repeated his Olympic 100 m victory in Athens, a feat not equalled until 1988, when Carl Lewis won the 100 m twice in a row ( albeit after disqualification of Ben Johnson ).

The party won a landslide victory in the 1906 general election.

With the Unionists divided and out of favour with many of their former supporters, the Liberal Party won the 1906 general election by a landslide, with the Unionists reduced to just 157 seats in the House of Commons.

Odds BK / Odd Grenland won the Norwegian Football Cup in 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1913, 1915, 1919, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1931 and 2000, more than any other team in Norway.

Worrall led the club to its first three VFL premierships, won consecutively, in 1906, 1907 and 1908.

Everton won the FA Cup for the first time in 1906 and the League title again in 1914 – 15.

The Unionists proposed Tariff Reform ( a form of protectionism ) to make the British Empire an economic unit ; the Liberals claimed this would make food dearer, and, in the general election of 1906, the Liberals won a landslide.

* Ed Hamm ( 1906 – 1982 )-American track and field athlete, who won the gold medal in long jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Ernst August Friedrich Ruska ( 25 December 1906 – 27 May 1988 ) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.

The original Castleford rugby league club played in the Northern Union ( Rugby Football League ) from 1896 – 97 to 1905 – 06, and it had one player named Isaac Cole who won a cap for England in 1906 against Other Nationalities.

Between 1906 – 8, he won all three London to Lakes End Trials ( motorbike races ).

He held the constituency for the Conservative Party until the 1906 general election, when he won the election for Manchester North West as a Liberal MP.

The club's first title came in 1906, when Fluminense won its first Campeonato Carioca.

Continuing to promote the Boer cause, he helped form the Oranje Unie party in May 1906 and became its chairman ; the party won the majority of seats in the colony's first elections that were held in November 1907.

Gould won the American championship from 1906 to 1926, one of the longest streaks in the history of sport.

A strong swimmer, he won the New Zealand 100-yards championship in 1906 and in 1910.

In 1906, Holden won the architectural competition to design a new headquarters for the British Medical Association on the corner of The Strand and Agar Street ( now Zimbabwe House ).