CLEVELAND - History is not on the side of the Chicago Cubs.
Luckily for them, it’s not on the side of the Cleveland Indians, either.
Since their last World Series victory in 1908, the Cubs have been cursed by a billy goat, sabotaged by a Bartman and bad fielding, and saddled with the title of the “Lovable Losers,” a moniker that defined more than a century of baseball on the north side of Chicago.
It hasn’t been much better in Cleveland, even if an NBA championship earlier this year took some of the focus off a World Series dry spell that dates back to 1948.