Cubs Team : A Better Team Than The 2016 Team

Although it produced the World Series champion last year, there are only two teams from the NL Central which have a realistic chance of making the playoffs this year. If the Cubs don’t win this division again this season, it would be a leviathan shock. They bring back practically the same club last year which crushed almost everyone they played, with the only real differences being Jon Jay, backup outfielder, replacing Dexter Fowler, starting outfielder, the losses of starter Jason Hammel and fourth outfielder Jorge Soler, and the replacement of trade deadline pickup and free agent loss Aroldis Chapman with Wade Davis. They should get a full season out of Kyle Schwarber, who was injured up until the World Series last year and

One hundred and eight years of love, support, and faith in their ball club came down to a fundamental, opposite field single by Ben Zobrist in game seven last night at Progressive Field. The Curse of the Billy Goat has been erased from the history books, and much of the credit must go to the Cub’s President of Baseball Operations, Theo Epstein. Epstein was the President of the Red Sox over a decade ago, helping shape the team that broke the Curse of the Bambino. In 2011 he signed with the Cubs, again aiding his new team to break what seemed to be a hopeless World Series drought. Thrifty Indian’s Ace Corey Kluber took the mound for the home team while the 26-year-old Kyle Hendricks was on the hill for the Cubs. Kluber experienced a pitcher’s

Ashley Bradford Mrs.Baltz English II 29 September 2016 Fixing The 1919 World Series ”To me baseball is as honorable as any other business. It has to be, or it would not last out a season... Crookedness and baseball do not mix.. This year,1919, is the greatest season of them all!”-Charles A. Comiskey. Baseball was the most popular game in america it was known as america's game.

The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball’s Golden Age written by Robert Weintraub is focused on the 1946 Major League Baseball season after World War II when “America was ready to heal.” During the war, parks were empty, the balls were made with fake rubber, and all of America’s favorite players were serving in the war. When players returned, they exchanged their military uniforms for baseball uniforms and the sport of baseball quickly became a key tool which helped many American’s return to their normal, everyday lives. Parks began to fill up again and a new era of baseball was born. Although so many soldiers returning at once did cause some issues, the National League was very competitive and many thrived on it. Weintraub discusses many events considered to be baseball’s best times including: the difficult, yet rewarding transition of baseball players from military service to the major leagues, The Brooklyn Dodgers breaking the racial segregation in the league by signing a black man, Jackie Robinson, the introduction of the Mexican League, in which American players signed with to receive higher salaries, and the 1946 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals, where the Cardinals defeated the Sox in the seven game series. Weintraub strongly focuses

The causes of why the Chicago Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians was how the cubs got there. The Chicago Cubs had the best regular season record.They had some of the best players in the MLB. When they got to the playoffs they had some struggles along the road but at the end of it all they ended up in the world series after beating 3 teams in the playoffs.

The reasons behind many Cubs’ fans believing in this absurd curse can be explained by psychology. A great deal of scientific reach shows that humans often perceive order in random events in order to attempt to understand why things happen. Many studies have proven that humans are prone to sense patterns in random

The Reds were a much less proven team and did not have the same amount of experience that their opponents had, so most people believed that this would be a very hard series to win. The White Sox were led by a four headed hitting machine with Jackson, Collins, Faber, and Schalk who are now in the baseball hall of fame and had a combined on base percentage that season of over.400. The best hitter on the team was Eddie Collins, a 32 year old 2nd baseman with averages of.319 and.400 during the regular season and in the postseason he batted with over a.500 on base percentage. The White Sox also had the best pitcher in the AL at the time with Eddie Cicotte, a 35 year old starting pitcher who had a 1.82 ERA and who in 40 games pitched that year only allowed 256 hits. Famous gambler Arnold Rothstein knew that he could win big and that is why he paid eight players on the Chicago White Sox $100 thousand to throw the series vs the Reds.

In 1914, after a long run of mediocrity, the team turned around their last place standing by going 41-12 from July through September. They swept the Philadelphia A's in the World Series for the first

Baseball became a famous game in the late 1800’s, and continued to grow. The first World Series was played in 1903, and the annual contest between the two top teams quickly became one of the most anticipated events in America. More and more people kept attending each year. In 1919 the World Series was expected to be profitable, and it did reach a large attendance. It was such a big event, and many other major devious events were involved.

The 1919 World Series was very interesting to say the least. Some of the White Sox players wanted some extra money. I believe that this series is one of, if not the darkest chapter in Major League Baseball’s history.

The teams that were in the 1919 world series were the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox's were the favorite for the game but in the end the Reds had won the game 10-5. This was a major upset and before the first pitch there had been talk of a fixed game. The game was actually fixed so that the Reds would win the game. Gamblers had payed some of the White Sox players to lose the game. The people that had to gain from the White Sox's loss were the people that put bets on the Reds to win the game. The White Sox's were the favorite so they would have a lot of people betting on them to win and not many people would bet on the Reds to win. The White Sox’s that threw the game were called Black Sox’s. There were eight Sox’s that

In 1919 two teams came together to fight for the title of being the 1919 World Series winner, these two teams where Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox. The world series is the championship for baseball. Chicago was the team in favor to win the series, but other people wanted the Cincinnati reds to win. This is what started the whole scandal for eight White Sox players to rig the series so that the Reds would win. All eight players were banned from baseball forever and became known as baseball's Black Sox. All players that were a part of the scandal are no longer allowed to play an organized baseball game.

For Chicago, baseball and the two teams are super important and each have their own die hard fans and will ride for their team even through all of their losses and wins because it's easy come easy go. The Cubs last won a world series in 1908 and the White Sox last won in 2005, so both teams know what the world series is and how to get there. The difference is that the Cubs

Transition: Heading into the World Series the White Sox were heavy favorites, and people in both cities believed they would make quick work of the Reds.

rules changed over time such as the length of the game change to nine innings and the distance from the pitchers found to home