Chicago Orphans

Chicago Cubs
2017 Chicago Cubs season
Established in 1876
Team logo Cap insignia
Major league affiliations
National League (1876–present) Central Division (1994–present) East Division (1969–1993)
Current uniform
Retired numbers	10 14 23 26 31 31 42
Colors
Blue, red, white
Name
Chicago Cubs (1903–present) Chicago White Stockings (NL) (1876–1889) Chicago Colts (1890–1897) Chicago Orphans (1898–1902)
Other nicknames
The Cubbies, the North Siders, the North Side Nine, the Boys in Blue, the Lovable Losers, the Little Bears, the Blue Bears, the Baby Bears
Ballpark
Wrigley Field (1916–present) a.k.a. Weeghman Park (1914–1920) a.k.a. Cubs Park (1920–1926) 23rd Street Grounds (1876–1877) Lakefront Park (I) (1878–1882) Lakefront Park (II) (1883–1884) West Side Park (I) (1885–1891) South Side Park (1891–1893) West Side Park (II) (1893–1915)
Major league titles
World Series titles (3)	1907 1908 2016
National League Pennants (17)	1906 1907 1908 1910 1918 1929 1932 1935 1938 1945 2016
Central Division titles (4)	2003 2007 2008 2016
East Division titles (2)	1984 1989
Wild card berths (2)	1998 2015
Front office
Owner(s)	Thomas S. Ricketts, Laura Ricketts, Pete Ricketts, Todd Ricketts, Joe Ricketts
Manager	Joe Maddon
General Manager	Jed Hoyer
President of Baseball Operations	Theo Epstein

The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division, where they are the defending World Series champions. The team plays its home games at Wrigley Field, located on the city's North Side. The Cubs are one of two major league teams in Chicago; the other, the Chicago White Sox, is a member of the American League (AL) Central division. The Cubs, first known as the White Stockings, was a founding member of the NL in 1876, becoming the Chicago Cubs in 1903.

The Cubs have appeared in a total of eleven World Series. The 1906 Cubs won 116 games, finishing 116–36 and posting a modern-era record winning percentage of .763, before losing the World Series to the Chicago White Sox ("The Hitless Wonders") by four games to two. The Cubs won back-to-back World Series championships in 1907 and 1908, becoming the first major league team to play in three consecutive World Series, and the first to win it twice. Most recently, the Cubs won the 2016 National League Championship Series and 2016 World Series, which ended a 71-year National League pennant drought and a 108-year World Series championship drought, both of which are record droughts in Major League Baseball. The 108-year drought was also the longest such occurrence in all major North American sports. Since the start of divisional play in 1969, the Cubs have appeared in the postseason eight times through the 2016 season.

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