The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member team of the National League (NL) Central division. The team plays its home games at Wrigley Field, situated on the city’s North Side. The Cubs are just one of two big league clubs in Chicago; the other, the Chicago White Sox, is a member of the American League (AL) Central branch. The Cubs, initially Called the White Stockings, were a founding member of the NL in 1876, becoming the Chicago Cubs in 1903. [3]
The Cubs have appeared in a total of eleven World Series. The 1906 Cubs won 116 games, completing 116–36 and submitting a modern-era record winning percentage of .763, before dropping the World Series to the Chicago White Sox (“The Hitless Wonders”) by four games to 2. The Cubs won back-to-back World Series championships in 1907 and 1908, becoming the first significant league team to play three consecutive World Series, and the first to win it two. Most recently, the Cubs won the 2016 National League Championship Series and 2016 World Series, which finished a 71-year National League pennant drought along with also a 108-year World Series championship drought,[4] both of which can be record droughts in Major League Baseball. [5][6] The 108-year drought was also the longest such event in most significant North American sports. Since the start of divisional play in 1969, the Cubs have appeared in the postseason ten times throughout the 2018 season. [4][7]
The Cubs are known as”the North Siders”, a reference to the positioning of Wrigley Field inside the city of Chicago, and compared to the White Sox, whose home area (Guaranteed Rate Field) is situated on the South Side.
The Cubs have rivalries. There is a divisional rivalry with the St. Louis Cardinals, a newer rivalry with the Milwaukee Brewers and an interleague rivalry with the Chicago White Sox.