“Take me out to the ball game”, well known as the seven stretch song, is the song many families around the country know, The song goes back to 1908, by Jack Norworth. A lot of people who watch MLB have there own opinions on who’s better, but not all of them know the actual background of there favorite teams.Out of all the teams, the Chicago Cubs are definitely the best in league.The Cubs are the best team in the league because they won 116 games in 1906 and 107 games in 1907. They are so dominant that no other team in the MLB over any five-year period has even gotten close to the percentage by outscoring their opponents except them.
The Chicago Cubs first started in 1876, before that, in 1807, they were know as the Chicago White Stockings.
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In the article, “Cubs playoffs: What does best record in baseball mean for postseason? World Series?”, says, “The team with the best record in baseball usually doesn't win the World Series (Yoder). Since the beginning of the wild card era only four of the 26 teams with the top record went on to win the World Series: The 1998 and 2009 Yankees, and the 2007 and 2013 Red Sox. That's 7 percent.” This supports that even the best teams in the league don’t make it or don’t win the World Series. Clearly, in 2016, the Cubs finally got there chance to show that they weren’t only the best, but that they could also win a world series to show that there record and team effort could take them farther. After the Cubs won in 2016, many fans started talking bout how the curse of the Cubs losses was finally broken. Author of, “The 2017 Cubs have a chance to join elite company in National League history”, says, “No other NL pennant winners have won back-to-back World Series” (Perry). What Perry is saying is that the Cubs are the only team that has won 2 World Series in a row. This shows that the Cubs are more than capable of winning the World Series again sometime in the near