Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe Cubs won 103 games in the regular season, the most in the major leagues. The Chicago Cubs last won the World Series in 1908, when Theodore Roosevelt was president. Before Tuesday’s game, reporters put the question of maledictions to Jon Lester, the veteran ace of the Cubs’ staff. He scrunched his face and nodded in the direction of the Cubs’ clubhouse. “Nobody really cares in there about a curse or a goat or anything else, you know what I mean?” he said.

Source: New York Times October 12, 2016 12:23 UTC