the full history of the Cubs had to be understood. Additionally, I also cited an article from the database Academic OneFile titled “Curse of the Billy Goat: an Adaptive Coping Strategy for Cubs Fans”. This piece “really delve[d] into the social science behind The Curse of the Billy Goat” (Mazon 3). Information regarding the social science that explained the curse was essential to accomplish another goal of the research project, which was to analyze why the topic captured America’s consciousness
"They've finally done it" says cubs fan, Alan Deutsch along with every other Cubs fan in the world. The Cubs achieved the unthinkable. They won the world series, breaking the longest championship drought in not only baseball history, but sports history. Very few fans can admit, truthfully, that they never wavered, lost faith, or doubted the Cubs over the years. It has been a long, slow road of continuous let down for Cubs fans until now. It has been 108 years since the Cubs last won the pennant which
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superstitions and curses from a young age as a way to blame something that could have caused the effect of the circumstance. There are a few superstitions that people believe in today: If you walk under a ladder you would receive bad luck, knock on wood to avoid bad luck, avoiding a black car, or breaking a mirror and you would acquire seven years of bad luck. Superstition is an illogical belief in supernatural influences that evolved due to ignorance or fear of the unknown. Superstition and curses can't be
It’s that time of year again for my fellow baseball lovers - the World Series. Being from Chicago, I have grown up watching the Cubs “Curse of the Billy Goat” be proven true over and over again. Then, it happened. The Chicago Cubs finally made it to the World Series... but against the Cleveland Indians. Since both of these teams have not won the World Series in decades, the whole country went wild. This World Series would make history. Of course, with an event as special and intense as this, there