For the second time in as many years the Cubs have advanced to the National League Championship Series. Since that round of playoffs was introduced in 1969—a year that haunts the franchise for a different reason, but that's a story for another day—Chicago has made it that far four times, but it is still searching for its first National League pennant since '45. In each of those NLCS trips, the Cubs were felled by a team that deserved to win, but that has sometimes been lost amid the memories of how Chicago lost. There are no billy goats here, but there are enough subspecies of Capra aegagrus to fill a petting zoo.
What you might know—and might have forgotten—about the Cubs' NLCS history
