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Posted By: Howard W. Rosenberg

What a softball question! If he were alive, Cap Anson would naturally have to stake a claim to something (as that was his personality). I think that the most plentiful, numerical one for Anson is that I found 57 occasions where he had a bet going on some aspect of regular season big league games (or how his team would do overall over the course of a season). At least based on what was ever reported, he seems to have dwarfed the rest of big league baseball put together.

Here are some links to help you bone up :

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3921022/
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=neyer_rob&id=1702483