Cubs Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/29/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

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Inning #7 is just one in a series of caches to be released this summer each Saturday along the highway 78 corridor. As with other caches in the series the FTF is awarded a home run (4 bases), the 2nd to find a triple (3 bases), the 3rd to find a double (2 bases) and the 4th to find a single (1 base). Bases will accumulate over the summer and whoever has the most will be crowned the World Series Champion of 2010. What do they win? My admiration.

Logs should be clear as to who is first, second, third, and fourth to find otherwise the Commissioner will have to simply award bases on his best judgment.

Heading to the seventh the current score is:

Celestinau....................................................15 bases

7Riddles.......................................................11 bases

Condor Man.................................................10 bases

Calipers..........................................................7 bases

Mcgarveyma..................................................6 bases

fsafranek & Tim 10966...................................4 bases

Rockhoundbmw.............................................2 bases

dl4jones...........................................................1 base

Inning #7 is in honor of the Chicago Cubs













The Cubs have not won the World Series in 102 years; a longer championship drought than that of any other major North American professional sports team. In 1906 the Cubs recorded a record 116 victories and the best winning percentage (.763) in Major League history but lost that year to the cross town rival White Sox in the World Series. With mostly the same roster, Chicago won back to back World Series championships in 1907 and 1908, the last championships the team has ever won.

In Game 4 of the1945 World Series, the Curse of the Billy Goat was allegedly laid upon the Cubs when P.K. Wrigley ejected Billy Sianis, who had come to Game 4 with two box seat tickets, one for him and one for his goat. When Wrigley demanded the goat leave the park due to its unpleasant odor Mr. Sianis uttered, "The Cubs, they ain't gonna win no more." The Cubs lost Game 4, lost the Series, and have not been back since.

In 1969 the Cubs built a substantial lead in the newly created National League Eastern Division but ultimately wilted under pressure and lost key games against the Mets and finished the season a disappointing eight games out of first place. Many superstitious fans attribute this collapse to an incident at Shea Stadium when a fan released a black cat onto the field, further cursing the club.

After a strong start to the 1984 season the Cubs acquired pitcher Rick Sutcliffe from the Cleveland Indians. Sutcliffe proceeded to go 16–1 for Cubs who ultimately won the NL East with a league leading 96 victories. In the playoffs the Cubs faced the San Diego Padres. After winning the first two games at home the Cubs needed to win only one game of the next three in San Diego to make it back to the World Series. After being beaten in Game 3, the Cubs lost Game 4 when dependable closer Lee Smith allowed a game-winning home run to Steve Garvey in the bottom of the ninth inning. In Game 5 the Cubs took a 3–0 lead to the 6th inning with Sutcliffe (who won the Cy Young Award that year) still on the mound. After a critical error from first baseman Leon Durham the Padres went on to win the game and keep Chicago out of the 1984 World Series.

In 1989 the Cubs won the NL East once again and met the San Francisco Giants in the NLCS. After splitting the first two games at home, the Cubs headed to the Bay Area, where despite holding a lead at some point in each of the next three games, bullpen meltdowns and managerial blunders ultimately led to three straight losses.

After being swept out of the playoffs by Atlanta in 1998 the Cubs returned and in 2003 and won a dramatic five game series over the Atlanta for the franchise's first postseason series win since they went to the World Series in 1945. In the league’s championship series the Cubs won 3 of the first 4 games and in game 5 found themselves five outs away from their first World Series appearance in over fifty years. Late in that game several spectators attempted to catch a foul ball off the bat of Florida’s Luis Castillo. One of the fans, Steve Bartman, reached for the ball and deflected it away from the glove of Chicago’s Moisés Alou for what would have been the second out of the inning. Interference was not called on the play and Castillo was eventually walked and two batters later, to the horror of the packed stadium, Cubs shortstop Alex Gonzalez misplayed a potential inning ending double play, loading the bases and leading to eight Florida runs and a Marlin victory. The Cubs ultimately dropped Game 7, and failed to reach the World Series.

World Series titles: 1908, 1907

NL Pennants: 1945, 1938, 1935, 1932, 1929, 1918, 1910, 1908, 1907, 1906, 1886, 1885, 1882, 1881, 1880, 1876

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