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Decisions, Decisions: Firing A Legend

Decisions, Decisions: Firing A Legend

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Paul White
Sep 05, 2024
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The Chicago Cubs weren’t considered to be cursed in 1938. Not yet. That wouldn’t happen until they threw that damn billy goat out of Wrigley Field in 1945. Before that they might have been viewed as the next-best franchise in the National League after the New York Giants. They’d won 8 pennants and 2 World Series since 1901, and their history was littere…

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