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Throughout the history of Major League Baseball (MLB), franchises have had various postseason and World Series droughts.. All 16 of the original Major League franchises (i.e., those in place when the first World Series was played in 1903) have won the World Series, with the longest wait for a franchise's first championship being for the Phillies (77 seasons, ending in 1980).
Most recently, the Cubs won the 2016 National League Championship Series and 2016 World Series, which ended a 71-year National League pennant drought and a 108-year World Series championship drought, [5] both of which are record droughts in Major League Baseball.
The Cubs' 107 season World Series victory drought was the longest league title drought in the history of the major American professional sports leagues. [11] It was also regarded to be the most famous championship drought in American sports history. [ 12 ]
The Cubs did not win another World Series title until finally reclaiming the crown in 2016, a drought of 108 years, which remains the longest in MLB history. The attendance during this final game of the series, 6,210, was the smallest crowd in World Series history. [ 10 ]
After a 108-year World Series drought, those lovable losers were finally supposed to put it all together and win the Fall Classic. Great, now the Chicago Cubs are screwed thanks to the new Sports ...
That last World Series trip was the most painful, as the Guardians held a 3-1 series lead over the Chicago Cubs — a team trying to break a 107-year drought at the time — and took the lead in ...
Between their 1908 triumph, which was the Cubs' second world championship (they'd also won the Series in 1907 to become baseball's first back-to-back winners as well as the first franchise to appear in three consecutive World Series), and 1945, the first year of the alleged Billy Goat Curse, the Cubs won the National League pennant six times ...
The 2006 Cubs were 98 years into the franchise’s famous World Series drought and entering the final year of the Andy MacPhail era, which began with the ill-advised marketing slogan “We’re ...