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2016 Chicago Cubs

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The Chicago Cubs are one of the most iconic franchises in professional sports. Nothing compares to the ivy walls, the bleacher seats, and the day games at Wrigley Field. And yet, in the early 2010s, the Cubs were best known for their failures.

Longtime sports and politics writer Charles P. Pierce called the Cubs title drought the last great American sports story. It had been more than 100 years…