MLB Showdown Obsession

 The championship drought that the White Sox suffered between 1917 and 2005 was often overshadowed by the more notable failures of the Red Sox and Cubs for the better part of the century the teams all toiled. The Cubs began theirs before the White Sox and ended well after, while the Red Sox had a more notable origin that the press loved to run with. There was no Ruth or billy goat to laugh about, the White Sox had only their scandal from 1919 to look upon, making it less fun and easier to ignore. The 1917 season went easy enough for the ChiSox, with Pants Rowland managing the team to a 100-54 record, best in franchise history and 9 games beyond the 2nd place Red Sox, claiming the pennant. Facing off against them in the World Series were the New York Giants. The teams split the first 4 games of the series, the home team winning each game, until it looked like the Giants were going to flip the script in Game 5, loading the bases in the top of the 1st inning and taking a 4-1 lead into...

 There is a coming generation of baseball fans who will know nothing of the pain and torment that the Chicago Cubs and their fans endured for over a century. In 2016 they finally hit paydirt and won the World Series after 108 years of constant failure. To put it in perspective, when the Cubs won the World Series in 1908, their 2nd in a row, that put them all alone for the most titles of all time, with the New York Giants, Boston Americans and Chicago White Sox being the only other teams to ever win....then when they finally won their 3rd title in 2016, that put them 24 titles behind the leading Yankees for the most all time. Player-Manager Frank Chance and the Cubs were in the midst of baseball dominance when 1908 began. They were coming off the 1907 title, and were 2x defending National League champions. With a target on their backs, the season grind was by no means easy, with both the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Giants fighting them wire to wire for the pennant. At the end of...