The Chicago Cubs, one of Chicago's two professional baseball teams, were one of the first baseball clubs in the National League.  Playing at Wrigley Field since 1916, the Cubs are affectionately known as "The North Siders," "The Boys in Blue," or "The Cubbies."

Beginning as the Chicago White Stockings in 1870, the Cubs belonged to the National Association.  Teams back then decided to join the league with the purpose of beating the Cincinnati Red Stockings.  It was custom that teams based their name based on their team colors and it just so happened that the Chicago Baseball Club (as they were called back then) chose white as their official team color.

In 1902, a local newspaper gave the Cubs their name due to the fact that many young players were now joining the team, a trend that the manager of the team started.  The Cubs became the official name in 1907.  During 1903-1912, hall-of-famers Joe Tinkers, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance combined in the infield to make the Cubs one of the most dominant infielders in the league.  Their accomplishments were immortalized in the famous poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon": Tinkers to Evers to Chance

The Cubs won back to back World Series in 1907 and 1908 and haven't won a world championship since then, making this the longest draught in sports history. The Cubs have gone through a series of downfalls and exciting times. One such downfall was the infamous curse of the Billy Goat. Game 4 of the 1945 World Series played at Wrigley Field.  Billy Sianis came to watch this game with his goat.  Wrigley kicked out Sianis and his goat due to the goat's foul smell.  As Sianis left the ballpark he said to himself, "The Cubs, they ain't gonna win no more."  The Cubs subsequently lost the game, lost the Series, and have never played in a series since.  Devoted fans believed Sianis had put a curse on the team.  For the next few decades, the Cubs did not have many memorable moments. By the 1970s, the team was known as "The Loveable Losers"

By 1998, Sammy Sosa's home run race against Mark McGwire and Ken Griffey Jr. garnered media attention, thus drawing in new fans.  Sosa won MVP of the National League in 1998 with 66 home runs, and the Cubs won a wild card spot in the eleventh hour after beating the San Francisco Giants.  On April 23, 2008 the Cubs achieved their 10,000th win against the Colorado Rockies making them only the second teams in the Major League to achieve a 10,000th win.