For Chicago Cubs fans, every spring for the last 108 years had been greeted with a mixture of optimism and resignation. That was the mindset required of fans whose team is one of the oldest in baseball—founded as the Chicago White Stockings in 1876, it became the Chicago Cubs in 1907—but also one of the most frustrating to watch every October. Until 2016, that is, when the Cubbies clawed back from a 3-1 World Series deficit against the Continue Reading