Talk:History of the Chicago Cubs

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Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: will be moved Kotniski (talk) 06:15, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Chicago Cubs franchise history → History of the Chicago Cubs — Move over redirect, should be uncontroversial. You can see at Category:History of Major League Baseball by team that this article needs this move to standardize the title with the other pages of the category. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:48, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Move. - More straightforward title. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:58, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support, makes sense to standardise in this situation. Jenks24 (talk) 18:07, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:20, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rlendog (talk) 20:05, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Orphaned references in History of the Chicago Cubs

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of History of the Chicago Cubs's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "mlb":

From Major League Baseball: "Team-by-team information". MLB.com. Retrieved September 8, 2008.
From Chicago Cubs: http://m.mlb.com/gameday/dodgers-vs-cubs/2016/10/22/487629?partnerId=LR_box#game_tab=box,game=487629,game_state=final

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 15:01, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This piece needs a full rewrite

This piece is an enormous, rambling, mostly unsourced mess of an article. I would advise that the 19th Century, 20th Century history up to World War II, and Post-WWII history be split off as freestanding articles and written from scratch with sources, and that the main page then be rewritten to accord with those. This will be a very high traffic page because of the World Series so the time is not now, but something like this needs to be done before too much longer... Carrite (talk) 16:55, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The feat of a brand new team in its inaugural season winning a preexisting league's pennant

I'd like to know before I add an addendum to that effect if any other known sports team in history has ever pulled that off. Obviously any team gets at most one shot at such a feat (with teams that start out barnstorming getting zero). -Tawaki (talk) 15:01, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My search came up empty save for this article from Sports Illustrated. To make a claim that "The [Cubs] were the first team in known sports history to win a championship in their inaugural season in a preexisting league" would require a reliable source and reference to back up it up. Maybe someone else can find a more definitive answer.-- StarScream1007 ►Talk 01:16, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]