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The Chicago Cubs are a Major League Baseball team based in Chicago , Illinois . They are in the Central Division of the National League. Chicago has been the only city to hold a team continuously since 1876, Chicago began as the "White Stockings," primarily and was the best team in baseball. The team was founded in 1870, as an independent professional club and joined the National Association in 1871. The Cubs a charter National League member in 1876.

The Chicago Cubs were was originally known as "White Stockings", in the 1870s. In the 1890s the name was changed to Colts. In 1898 the team was known as Orphans. Remnants, in 1901, after a number of players deserted the team for the American League. In 1902 manager Frank Selee arrived and rebuilt the team with some new players who were totally inexperienced players and the team was named "Cubs". The 1920s saw six different managers for the Cubs, and not surprisingly they produced mixed results. In 1921, the chewing gum manufacturer, William Wrigley, purchased the Chicago Cubs.

The best player on the Cubs in the 1980s was Ryne Sandberg, a slick second baseman who won the 1984 MVP award and plugged the middle infield spot for Chicago for 15 seasons. In 1984, the organization won their first NL Eastern Division championship, and return to post-season play for the first time since 1945. In 1993 Randy Myers sets an NL record with 53 saves. The Chicago Cubs have won more games than any other franchise in baseball history. Fans affectionately refer to the team as the "Cubbies." The home ballpark of the team is Wrigley Field,and was opened on April 23, 1914 , and was built at a cost of $250,000. The first game at this park was played in 1916. The stadium has a seating capacity of 38,902.

The uniform color of the team is red and blue and the logo design is a red C on a blue field. The team has won three division titles, followed by 16 league pennants and two world series in 1907 and 1908. Some of the top players to enter the Hall of Fame group include Pete Alexander, Cap Anson, Richie Ashburn, and Ernie Banks. Some other people of note to be associated with this team include Jack Brickhouse, broadcaster for the Cubs on WGN radio and television from 1946 through 1981.

The Cubs have not appeared in a World Series since 1945, and have not won one since 1908. The 2005 season will mark 97 years since the Cubs last won a world championship, the longest drought in the Major Leagues. It's not an honor the team, its fans or players cherish. This World Series did have a Chicago angle. The Red Sox made the Cubs faithful feel good because Boston beat their arch rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals. Cubs fans have been temporarily switching sides and loading up on Red Sox gear at Chicago-area sporting goods stores. Maybe the the Chicago Cubs will get a World Series title soon, the fans can only hope.

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With Wrigley's money and Veeck's savvy, the Cubs were soon back in business in the National League, the front office having built a team that would be strong contenders for the next decade. During that stretch, they achieved the unusual accomplishment of winning a pennant every three years - 1929, 1932, 1935 and 1938 - sometimes in thrilling fashion, such as 1935 when they won a record 21 games in a row in September, and 1938 when they won a crucial late-season game with a walk-off "home run in the gloamin'" by Gabby Hartnett.

Unfortunately, their success did not extend to the post-season, as they fell to their American League rivals each time, often in humilating fashion. By the late 1930s, the double-Bills (Wrigley and Veeck), had been in Baseball Heaven for several years. As the decade wound down, the front office under P.K. Wrigley was unable to rekindle the kind of success that P.K.'s father had created, and the Cubs slipped into mediocrity. They enjoyed one more pennant, at the close of another wartime year, 1945, lost the World Series, and have not been back since then, at least through the 2004 season.

Day Games at Wrigley
The Cubs' home ballpark, Wrigley Field, played host to only day games until 1988 because the stadium owner donated the lights to the war effort in the 1940s, and it then became tradition. The first night game was scheduled to be played August 8, 1988, versus Philadelphia, but it was rained out after 3 1/2 innings. The high point of that contest, beyond the cry of "Let there be lights", was when famous top-heavy entertainer Morganna Roberts, "The Kissing Bandit", ran onto the field and attempted to plant one on Ryne Sandberg. She was thwarted by Chicago's Finest, but Ryno hit the next pitch out of the park to thunderous approval. Unfortunately, the rainout nullified his home run. The first official night game thus occurred the following evening, August 9, 1988; the Cubs defeated the New York Mets, 6-4. While night games are now possible at Wrigley, the Cubs still play more day games at home than any other Major League team.

"Lovable losers"
It can't go without mention that the Cubs have the longest dry spell between championships in all of professional sports, having failed to win a World Series since 1908. To make matters worse, the Cubs haven't even been in a World Series since 1945, and finished in the second division, or bottom half, of the National League for 20 consecutive years beginning in 1947. They didn't win any playoff series between 1908 and 2003, when they beat the Atlanta Braves in the NLDS.

Derrek Lee, Aramis Ramirez and Moises Alou celebrate a Lee home runThe Cubs' 2003 playoff run ended in an emotional game 7 of the NLCS against the Florida Marlins. While at one point ahead in the 7-game series 3 games to 1, the Marlins came back to win the final three games. Marlins pitcher Josh Beckett shut out the Cubs in game 5. An implosion of the Cubs defense late in game 6, following the now-infamous incident in which a fan touched a ball in foul territory, allowed the Marlins to score 8 runs in the eighth inning (see The Inning) and tie the series. The Cubs were unable to win the final game at home, and were without a pennant again.

To historians of the game, this incident echoed another Cubs disaster, Game 4 of the 1929 World Series, in which the Cubs yielded 10 runs to the Philadelphia Athletics in the seventh inning. A key play in that inning was centerfielder Hack Wilson losing a fly ball in the sun, resulting in a 3-run inside-the-park home run.

The long history of the Cubs is a dichotomy. For their first 80 years, prior to and including 1945, more often than not the Cubs were generally assumed to be contenders, playing well and winning the occasional pennant. For much of the 60 year span since then, it was as if the baseball gods had pretty much slammed the door on them, granting them just an occasional glimpse through the keyhole. It did not take astute observers long to realize that something bad had happened to this once-proud franchise...

In his 1950 book The World Series and Highlights of Baseball, LaMont Buchanan wrote the following prose next to photos of Wrigley during the 1945 World Series and of their newly-hired manager: "From the sublime to last place! Wrigley Field, the ivy of its walls still whispering of past greatness, watches its Cubs grow less ferocious in '47, '48, '49. New doctor of the cure is smiling Frank Frisch, veteran of previous baseball transfusions who thinks, 'It's nice to have the fans with you.' Chicago has a great baseball tradition. The fans remember glorious yesterdays as they wait for brighter tomorrows. And eventually their Cubs will bite again." Little did anyone realize how long "eventually" might turn out to be.

What may be the least known and cried over, but possibly the most telling, statistic of futility for the Cubs, though, is that their first back-to-back winning seasons since 1973 came in 2003 and 2004. Not division titles, not playoff appearances, just winning seasons. Nonetheless, they remain one of the best-loved and best-attended teams in the league, with attendance figures consistently in the top 10, despite a smaller stadium than many other teams. Wrigley Field consistently sells out during the season.

As with the Boston Red Sox (prior to their astonishing 2004 post-season triumph), the Cubs of recent generations have seemed to be a team that "bad things happen to". Although there is a tendency to compare the Cubs and the Red Sox, there is a stark difference. Since World War II, the Red Sox have been frequent contenders and frequent visitors to the post-season, including five trips to the World Series. They have had more of a reputation as "chokers" than as "losers", the tag that the Cubs bear.

The Cubs have shown they can win, or at least contend, when their pitching is superior. Outstanding pitching has been a major difference in every one of their winning seasons since World War II. But although there is no substitute for front-office savvy and on-the-field excellence, the venerable ballpark itself has to be considered a factor in the teams' failures to go farther than they have. When the bleachers were extended into left field in 1937, it shortened the true power alley from a posted distance of 372 feet to about 350 feet, which is too short for major league standards, especially for a left field. Most batters are right-handed, so their natural power alley is left-center. Thus most asymmetric ballparks have their short field in right. Not so with Wrigley. This allows more left-center field home runs than the average ballpark would. Ferguson Jenkins, upon being traded to the Texas Rangers after a successful though home-run prone career with the Cubs, bitterly complained that "Wrigley Field is a bad ballpark!"