![]() The Cubs came in as prohibitive favorites, thanks to an outstanding season in which they had won 103 games and impressive wins in the first two rounds of the postseason. Needless to say, the two teams had never previously met in a postseason series, although the two managers, Terry Francona and Joe Maddon had faced each other in the 2008 ALCS when they were both at the helm of different teams (the Boston Red Sox for Francona and the Tampa Bay Rays for Maddon). In effect, no one alive could claim to have any remembrance of the Cubs as World Champions. The 2016 World Series was a lesson in history, as it featured the two teams with the longest active championship drought in the majors, the Cleveland Indians, who had not won the Fall Classic since 1948 and had been back only three times since, and the Chicago Cubs, whose last appearance in a World Series had come in 1945 and its last win in 1908.
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